...Abstract The Concept of Strategic Human Resource Management has a widely use but very arrangement of definition. Research has present reasons that if the concept is to have any social systematic value, it should be defined in a way as to characterize it from traditional personnel management, and to allow the development of testable interpretation about its impact. Concept of Strategic Human Resource Management Thought out the research many definitions arose, strategy provides a great structure to support within which is set out what the company is considerate to do about managing people in general or in ordinary areas of human resource management. The strategic is the intention and plan to use human resources to achieve company goals, and it is part of a strategic human resource management process that leads to the development of overall specific performance by human resources management. It depends highly on the viewpoint being taken by human resource management. It can be express as traditional personnel management, as a mixture of personnel management and industrial relations, and as part of strategic, managerial role. Research has demonstrated the benefits of bringing human resource management and knowledge and experience of management. That will reinforces the support and enhance organizational effectiveness of performance. “A typical handbook usually defines human resource management as the management of the company’s employees” ( Scarpello and Ledvinka, 1988, p...
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...INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGENT 1.0 Introduction This chapter introduces the concept of strategic management and provides an overview of strategic management. This chapter is divided into six sections. The first section explains the evolution of the strategic management concept. This is followed by the second section on definition of strategic management. The third section describes the context in which strategic management takes place. This is followed by the fourth section which covers the scope of strategic management. The fifth section shows some of the benefits of strategic management for organizations. Finally the sixth section describes the process of strategic management. Upon the completion of this chapter you should be able to: 1. understand the concept of strategic management 2. know the brief history of the strategic management concept 3. understand the definition of strategic management 4. know the context in which strategic management occurs 5. comprehend the scope of strategic management 6. describe the benefit of strategic management 7. know the strategic management process 1.1 Introduction to the Strategic Management Concept Strategic management is a concept that originated from the military field. The concept of strategic management was first applied in ancient battles. The period around 500 B.C. saw numerous battles that took place Greece and China. The early written record on strategic management can be traced back during this warring...
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...Human Resource Management 1. Executive Summary Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has established great in recent years in the fields of Human Resource Management (HRM). SHRM is the new concept for both the strategic management field and the human resource management field. The SHRM concept is based mainly on the HRM Practices, which are the main force driving organizational performance. SHRM is concerned with approaches to HRM practices as a critical strategic dimension affecting organization performance; which is the objective of this assignment. Strategic human resource management enhances organizational effectiveness and also productivity. The implementations of the HRM practices mentioned in this assignment are able to achieve their goals and objectives. This assignment on SHRM highlights its importance in TECO Electric and Machinery Pte Ltd. And it focuses on what best practices of strategic planning the organization can achieve organizational effectiveness and performance. 2. Introduction 2.1. Human Resource Management (HRM): Torrington, Hall and Taylor (2005, p.14) defines Human Resource Management is a series of activities which: first enables working people and the organization which uses their skills to agree about the objectives and nature of their working relationship and, secondly, ensures that the agreement is fulfilled. Armstrong (2008, p.5) defines HRM as a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets...
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...Strategic management is a field that involves the formulation and implementation of plans and policies that help an organization achieve its objectives. Strategic management as a professional field and discipline originated during the period of the half twentieth century, the 1950s with Igor Ansoff, Michael porter, Alfred Chandler and Henry Mintzeberg as the one of the main contributors in the development of the field of strategic management . During the 1950s, after the Second World War, academicians, researchers and practitioners basically paid very little attention to the practical concepts of strategy developed and embraced during the war. After normalcy and stability was achieved most business persons and investors started focusing and laying more emphasis on efficient and effective production in order to restore what was lost during the war. Consequently, production firms and organizations moved and shifted from an emphasis on operations, budgeting and controlling areas to more emphasis on planning aspects (Freeman, 2010). This arose as result of the dynamic environment that businesses were operating in and the urgent need for solutions which eventually demanded future planning taken at a larger perspective and view. This led to many businesses requiring the urgent need of having a corporate policy. With these, the seminar work of Chandler of 1962 placed and positioned the concept of strategy as a unique business function from marketing, sales, finance and production....
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...HR Managers’ Roles & Contributions in Merger Processes Khalil Al Jerjawi Faculty of Business School of Management University of Western Sydney, Australia E.mail: mr.jerjawi@gmail.com Accepted: August 12, 2011 DOI :10.5296/ijhrs.v1i1.896 As companies have engaged in domestic and international mergers over the last few years in order to match the macroeconomic trends operating on a worldwide and more recently to cope with the current global financial crisis, human resource managers have been encouraged to play a more strategic role in their organizations, especially in the case of extensive and radical organizational change such as merging process. This study addresses and works on the existing research gap by investigating the roles of HR managers among the different roles which were defined at the fist by Dave Ulrich. This paper demonstrates that HR managers are an essential part of merger and that HR practices should be given an extensive emphasizing throughout such organizational change “the merger process”. Keywords: HR practices; HR manager roles; Merger process. 64 www.macrothink.org/ijhrs 1. Introduction In recent years human resource managers have been triggered to play a more strategic role in their organizations, especially in making strategic decisions and going through radical organizational changes such as merging process (Bjorkman & Soderberg, 2003). Nowadays this requirement is even more urgent and acute due to the fact that past decade has been characterized...
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...STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Objective: This course conveys the concept of strategy and its usefulness by exposing students to a variety of organizational situations. It enables students to look at organizations in their totality and appreciates the interrelationship among different functions. It will help students understand the strategy of organizations and thereby enable them in making major decisions, formulating policies and participate in implementation of corporate strategies. Contents: Unit I (6 Sessions) Introduction: Strategic management (SM) , Business Policy (BP) and Business Plan; Basic concepts of SM; Impact of Globalisation and e-Com; Theories of organisational adaptation; Creating a learning organisation; Basic model of SM; Strategic decision making; Impact of Internet; Firm and its environment. Unit II (6 Sessions) Scanning the environment: Environmental scanning; Industry analysis; Competitive intelligence; Forecasting; Synthesis of external factors; ETOP Study. Internal scanning: Organisational analysis; resource-based approach; value chain analysis; Scanning functional resources; Strategic audit; Unit III (6 Sessions) Strategy formulation: Situational analysis: SWOT analysis, TOWS Matrix; Corporate strategy; Strategies for growth and diversification; Process of strategic planning; Stages of corporate development; Portfolio analysis; Corporate parenting; Functional strategy; Core competencies; Strategic choice. Unit IV (6 Sessions) ...
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...The Shift from Personnel Management to Strategic Human Resource Management in Australia The management of people is ever-changing and extremely dynamic; it under goes sequential evolution with an organisations’ internal and external environments. Consequentially history has seen global Human Resource Management have considerable variation in its focus and practice. In Australia the history of Human Resource Management is said to have transformed over four stages; Pre 1940s Administration and welfare, 1940s – 1970s Personnel Management, 1970s – 2000 Human Resource Management (and, from about 1985, Strategic HRM) and the current era expected to be a mix of Strategic and International Human Resource Management. The transition from stage two to three was seen as a somewhat paramount movement in Human Resource Management as it harboured the link between Personnel Management and Strategic Management. This has become an extremely important concept in the management environment today. Human resource planning, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal and human resource development are five of the Human Resource processes which are vital to the success and of organisations and were influential during the transition between stages two and three of Human Resource Management history. These five dimensions were the catalysts of the forces that drove changes in Human Resource Management over the last quarter of the twentieth century. Human resource planning is the process by...
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...has to be considered to generate sustainable success. For me personally the topic “resourced-based view of a company” was the most interesting one. Therefore, I was wondering if it is possible to apply a resource-based view as an innovative perspective to support the strategic decision making process of certain management sections. During this research proposal I am going to present my research strategy to answer this question. 2. Literature Review In order to prove the value of the research question a review of the relevant literature was undertaken. Obviously, the central element of my research question is “the resource-based view” (RBV). Therefore, I disclose which initial assumptions, approaches and results have been evolved about the RBV thematic in literature. The findings about the development of the concept are introduced chronologically. Moreover, a dissertation about a closely related topic to my research question is presented. As for every major business concept, there exist countless definitions about the RBV. A concise and covering one might be: “A management device used to assess the available amount of a business' strategic assets. In essence, the resource-based view is based on the idea that the effective and efficient application of all useful resources that the company can muster helps to determine its competitive advantage.” (Businessdictionary) One of the first significant citations about the RBV was done by Coase, by introducing the RBV as a theory...
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...The strategic focus of HR Recently we have witnessed the amalgamation of several streams of management into the strategic management literature including epistemology, organizational learning, the resource based view, organizational capabilities and competitiveness and innovation and new product development (Frost, 2003; Grant and Baden Fuller, 1995). Other streams focus on nature and processes and examine the internal focus, which includes impact of strategic management concepts and frameworks that managers use to develop competitive strategy (Clark, 1997). Researchers have contended that the concept of strategic human resource management has evolved into a bridge between business strategy and the management of human resources (e.g. Butler et al., 1991; Lengnick-Hall and Lengnick-Hall, 1988; Lorange and Murphy, 1984). On the other hand, Truss and Gratton (1994) opine strategic human resource management as the overarching concept that links the management and deployment of individuals within the organization to the business as a whole and its environment. Ulrich (1997) further distinguished between strategic HR and HR strategy. He stated that strategic HR was the process of linking HR practices to business strategy. Thus, strategic HR deals with identifying the capabilities required of a business strategy and using HR practices to develop those capabilities. On the other hand, he viewed HR strategy as building an agenda for the HR function and defining the mission...
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...Strategic Intent G. Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (1989) A Critical Analysis Word count: 1098 Introduction "Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty." William J. Bennett says it in one of his best-selling books. This is proven to be true by a significant number of successful individuals all over the world, but what about an organization or an entity? IPO model reveals that organisation characteristics which make enormous impacts on organisation results are the combination of individual employee’s characteristics. Eventually, the implications of the quote should be true for an organisation. Related to the implications, Hamel and Prahalad (1989) had written an article about their unprecedented concept “Strategic Intent”. Placing the article in a wider debate “Strategic intent” is an ambitious and compelling dream that energises, which provides the emotional and intellectual energy for the journey to the future (Hamel and Prahalad, 1994). The article discusses the term “strategic intent” in a broad range of aspects; however, the main arguments of this article can be transfer into the debate of Resource-based view vs. Positioning. Apparently, the authors in this article incline to the idea of resource-based view. The resource-based view deals with the organisation internal resources and takes advantages of those to construct firm’s strategies (Wernerfelt, 1984)...
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...issues related to human resources, and will not survive if it chooses to stay passive to the upcoming business environmental volatility. In this report, Samsung’s current policies and issues related to human resources are examined and discussed. The topics concerned are job retaining, job satisfaction, job security, global recruitment, job relevance, motivation, and employee rights. The purpose of this report is to focus on finding recommendations about what Samsung should do on each according situation, with ideas and concepts backed up from journal article references and textbook. Ultimately, Samsung may be able to handle its human resources and issues related with more efficiency and effectiveness by accepting recommendations suggested on this report,. Keywords: Recommendations for Human Resources Strategy, Efficiency, Effectiveness. Foundation of Samsung and its Current Strategies on Human Resource The Samsung Group, which was founded in 1938, is a leading global conglomerate composed of numerous businesses, including electronics, construction, chemical, financial industries and etc. Samsung has economic values over 318 trillion Korean won, with 64 domestic and 311 foreign affiliated companies. Samsung focuses on human rights, technology, social contribution, and development as a global conglomerate as main principles for its corporate philosophy, as well as placing importance in creativity, challenging attitude, and resolution ability in human resource to meets the new paradigm...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllaubus | | |School of Business | | |STR/581 Strategic Planning & Implementation | Copyright © 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This capstone course integrates concepts from all prior courses in the program. Students apply the concepts of strategic planning and implementation to create sustainable, competitive advantage for an organization. Other topics include environmental scanning, strategic analysis, corporate social responsibility, implementation and evaluation, and risk management. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities,...
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...Critical Review of STRATEGY AS REVOLUTION Introduction Hamel strategic revolution seems to be the value of re-cognition. In the "Strategy is revolution", Hamel said that "Let us face the reality of it: the world is about to reach the asymptotic limit of the development." For enterprises, "or else it will hand over to the next challenger who has a revolutionary or innovation spirit, or on their company's strategic approach to a revolution." Therefore, Hamel made to establish a new strategic concept: "Strategy is Revolution, everything else is just tactics Optimization, Innovation and Revolution Strategy There are several theoretical debates in business strategy namely prescriptive versus emergent (Carr et al, 2004), positioning versus resource based view (Mosakowski, 1998) and innovation versus optimization (Johnston et al, 2001). In this article, innovation versus optimization which concentrates on the transformation of the industry is the mainly debate to discuss. In a broader context that innovation means new approach to doing business (Slavik, 2002, p. 43). The human now, face of one pair of sharp social contradictions: on the one hand: the uses of various resources available are scarce; on the other hand, the human desire is infinite, and will not stay at a certain level. Therefore, the nature of the economy is to make a choice, to the appropriate allocation and full use of scarce resources to produce products, and assigned to social groups and members to...
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...Human Resources Management, 13e (Dessler) Chapter 1 Introduction to Human Resource Management 1) The basic functions of the management process include all of the following EXCEPT ________. A) planning B) organizing C) outsourcing D) leading Answer: C Explanation: C) The five basic functions of the management process include planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Outsourcing jobs may be an aspect of human resources, but it is not one of the primary management functions. Diff: 1 Chapter: 1 Objective: 1 Skill: Concept Learning Outcome: Define human resource management and describe modern trends in the field 2) Which of the following is the person responsible for accomplishing an organization's goals by planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling personnel? A) manager B) entrepreneur C) generalist D) marketer Answer: A Explanation: A) The manager is the person responsible for accomplishing an organization's goals by planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling the efforts of the organization's people. An entrepreneur may manage people or may hire a manager to do so instead, but entrepreneurs are defined as individuals who start their own businesses. Diff: 2 Chapter: 1 Objective: 1 Skill: Concept 3) Which of the following includes five basic functions--planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling? A) job analysis B) strategic management C) management process D) adaptability screening ...
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...Human Resource Management, 12e (Dessler) Chapter 1 Introduction to Human Resource Management 1) The basic functions of the management process include all of the following EXCEPT ________. A) planning B) organizing C) outsourcing D) leading E) staffing Answer: C Explanation: The five basic functions of the management process include planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Outsourcing jobs may be an aspect of human resources, but it is not one of the primary management functions. Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 Chapter: 1 Objective: 1 Skill: Concept 2) Which of the following is the person responsible for accomplishing an organization's goals by planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling personnel? A) manager B) entrepreneur C) representative D) generalist E) marketer Answer: A Explanation: The manager is the person responsible for accomplishing an organization's goals by planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling the efforts of the organization's people. An entrepreneur may manage people or may hire a manager to do so instead, but entrepreneurs are defined as individuals who start their own businesses. Diff: 2 Page Ref: 4 Chapter: 1 Objective: 1 Skill: Concept 3) Which of the following includes five basic functions--planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling? A) job analysis B) strategic management C) employee orientation D) management process E) adaptability screening Answer: D Explanation:...
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