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Resources Challenges
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1 Understand the major challenges affecting HR
2 Develop competence in planning and implementing strategic HR policies
3 Develop competence in selecting HR strategies to increase firm
performance
4 Become aware of HR best practices
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4 Understand the need to establish a close partnership between the HR
department and managers
5 Recognize career opportunities in various human resources
management subfields
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Human resources strategy refers to a firm’s deliberate use of human
resources to help it gain or maintain an edge against competitors in the
marketplace
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Organizational culture refers to the basic assumptions and beliefs
shared by members of an organization
Organizational Culture
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• Observed behavioral regularities
Trang 9Strategic HR Policies: Benefits
• Encouraging Proactive Behavior
• Communicating Company Goals
• Stimulating Critical Thinking and Examination of Assumptions
• Identification of Gaps Between Current Situation and Future Vision
• Encouragement of Line Managers’ Participation
• Identification of HR Constraints and Opportunities
• Creating Common Bonds
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• Maintaining a Competitive Advantage
• Reinforcing Overall Business Strategy
• Avoiding Excessive Concentration on Daily Problems
• Develop HR Strategies Suited to Unique Organizational Features
• Coping with Environment
• Securing Management Commitment
• Translating the Strategic Plan into Action
• Combining Intended and Emergent Strategies
• Accommodating Change
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• To increase firm performance
• HR strategies should fit with other organizational aspects
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Corporate Strategies
Evolutionary Business Steady State
Porter’s Business Unit Strategies
Cost Leadership Differentiation Focus
Miles & Snow’s Business Strategies
Defender Prospector
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• Degree of Uncertainty
• Magnitude of Change
• Volatility
• Complexity
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Trang 17HR Fit with Organizational Characteristics
• Production Process
• Firm’s Market Posture
• Firm’s Overall Managerial Philosophy
• Firm’s Organizational Structure
• Firm’s Organizational Culture
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o Help firm exploit its competencies
o Assist the firm to help use its HR skills
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An Important Partnership
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To foster effective partnerships, companies should:
• Analyze the people side of productivity
• View HR roles as consultants
• Instill a shared sense of common fate
• Require HR training to include managerial experience
• Actively involve top corporate and divisional managers in HR plans
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Periodic HR Audits should ask:
Is the turnover rate exceptionally low or high?
Are employees who quit good employees or marginal?
What is the firm’s ROI regarding recruitment, training, and performance plans?
Is the firm complying with government regulations?
How well is the company managing employee diversity?
Are HRM policies and procedures helping the firm reach long-term goals?
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• HR Challenges Facing Managers
o Environmental Challenges
o Organizational Challenges
o Individual Challenges
• Planning and Implementing Strategic HR Policies
o Policies and procedures should be congruent
• Selecting HR Strategies to Increase Firm Performance
• The Important Partnership of HR and Managers
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