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Gratterpalm Case

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HRM 722
Case 1 pages 83-85 questions 1,2 &5
1. Gratterpalm’s new human resources (HR) activities helped drive business growth by the strategic use of surveys as initial employee engagement to gain insight coupled with a strong communications plan. High performing organizations have a deeper understanding as to how employee engagement can successfully drive business growth.1 < Lockwood, N. (2007) P.2, Abstract, all lines>The HR activities strategically integrated both employees and management teams, and incorporated them early on in the HR structuring process. The High Performance Work System (HPWS) that was put into place included valuable training opportunities, structured performance management and appraisals, compensation or …show more content…

A company must figure out how to fund the retirement of senior executives while funding the firm and making an attractive offer for incoming partners. In small businesses HR Management tends to be the lowest priority for managers. Due to their lack of resources, which include time, people, expertise or money, managers are forced to focus primarily on finances, marketing and production.
A small business can improve its capacity to successfully implement and HR program by ensuring it has a structured strategic business plan, clear and transparent communication among employees and managers, and strong performance and appraisal management system in place to help build on talent and align the company culture with its strategic business plan. Research shows that organizations that provide a workplace culture with the psychological conditions of meaningfulness (job enrichment, work-role fit), safety (supportive manager and co-workers) and availability (resources available) are more likely to have engaged employees.
5. It takes time to see the results of HR activities because internal research should be done, findings should be assessed, and an HR strategy should be developed and targeted towards findings, and the strategy must be implemented. Ultimately, overtime, benchmarking can be done to assess growth/ROI. Many HR activities such as performance management and appraisals track growth over time and aren’t instantaneous. Change that

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