Executive Summary
This report focuses on the primary issues and secondary issues of Banksia Health Service (BHS). BHS consist of about 500 employees and operates without a human resource department. This led to many issues that surfaced and causing BHS to be deemed as a poor performer by the state health department.
Firstly, the report looks into what is strategic human resource management and uses the Harvard Analytical Framework for HRM to analyze the various issues in BHS. Primary issues such as the CEO management styles, a lack of human resource department, and mandatory compliance to the government policies were present within BHS. There were also secondary issues such as communication problems, lack of trust in the HR policies,
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Firstly, there is no Human Resource (HR) department in the organization. With employment strength of 500 people, it is pertinent to have a HR department to run the day-to-day human resource processes. On the long run, without a HR Department there will be undesirable consequences like low employee morale leading to decrease in productivity which inevitably result in a fall in business performance (Griffin 2012).
No HR department were formed even after the organization restructuring, this proofed to be a mistake which many managers and staff thought it was important to establish a HR department. Secondly, funding acquired by the
Human resource departments today have a more distinct, calculated position within organizations, and human resource strategy influences the bottom line. “One of the challenges for HR leaders is convincing executive leadership teams that human capital is one of the most important resources in which the company can invest” (Mayhew, 2014, p.). Subsequently, “this return on investment is an essential part of the argument for including HR as part of an overall business strategy” (Mayhew, 2014, p.). Human resource departments utilize the information given to them from company executives and leaders, coupled with their respective expertise on all things personnel, and they plan and implement staffing concerns for the betterment of the organization. From preparing job analysis, to comparing inventory and forecasting, it is the responsibility of human resources to consider the objectives of an organization and fulfill those goals while operating the specific planning relative to HR.
However, the HR department is a staff operation within the organization chart of Henry Ford. Meaning that if the HR department was suddenly removed, there would be no short-term effect on the workflow of the health system (Fallon 2007).
1 #10. This question asks if I think that a modern day large company would be able to function without a human recourses department, and to be honest, I don’t think so. HR departments are a huge part of a business. All of the people are what make up the business and without an HR department; there wouldn’t be a “team”. Having an HR department has so many positive benefits, like helping build an organization and culture. Every company needs a department that takes care of employee/customer relations and an HR department does that. One positive benefit of having an HR department is the amount of stress that the managers would have in the hiring process. The amount of stress is significantly lower with an HR department because they do everything for you, that way if you are the manager, you can worry about other
It is important for HR Management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to becoming more strategic contributor because of the involvement of competitive advantages through a company s’ employees. Strategic HR managers need proceed with the professional growth by hiring employees with high potential and giving them opportunity to learn and make lot of experience from their job roles where can access to brightest future in the industry. Secondly, the executive succession where the strategic HR managers will hiring the potential successors and grooming them with experience and advancement to be ready for replacement of the owner of company. A company can be in right direction if proceed with the strategic succession planning. Third is the labor cost efficiency. Strategic HR department mainly focus on their top performers who effort the most to organizational goals and long-term company success. A strategic HR philosophy ensures the employees satisfied perfect where by paid to
The role of the human resources (HR) department can play a significant role in the success and achievements of an organization. The department, which has evolved from the
In a smaller company it would be more cost effective for the HR department to be primarily an administrative HR department. Larger companies need to increase the HR roles to a more strategic role which is goaled towards meeting the company’s needs. The role of the strategic human resource management team is to meet the needs of the employees as they are needed. This type of planning allows for the HR department to meets the needs of the employees and to focus on making sure the needs of the company are being met also. This type of thinking can allow for improvement in the way employers hire and train current and future
Whether an organization consists of five or 25,000 employees, human resources management is vital to the success of the organization. HR is important to all managers because it provides managers with the resources – the employees – necessary to produce the work for the managers and the organization. Beyond this role, HR is capable of becoming a strong strategic partner when it comes to “establishing the overall direction and objectives of key areas of human resource management in order to ensure that they not only are consistent with but also support the achievement of business goals.” (Massey, 1994, p. 27)
need this department or should we do away with it? Businesses today are debating these questions. Many companies are considering these question as most HR Departments are thought to be ineffective, incompetent, and costly as they are configured today (Ulrich, 1998). Human Resource Departments have never been more needed but they must change from being Administrative to being Strategic Contributors. (Ulrich) According to AON, a Human Resource Consulting Firm, the Human Resource Department main focus must be on service delivery (2016). The future will bring the need for more effective service delivery. HR will need to use the technology of today and of the future to fully meet the needs of the company and the employees of the future. (2016)
In today's intensely competitive and global marketplace, maintaining a competitive advantage by becoming a low cost leader or a differentiator puts a heavy premium on having a highly committed or competent workforce. Competitive advantage lies not just in differentiating a product or service or in becoming the low cost leader but in also being able to tap the company's special skills or core competencies and rapidly respond to customer's needs and competitor's moves. In other words competitive advantage lies in management's ability to consolidate corporate-wide technologies and production skills into competencies that empower individual businesses to adapt quickly to changing opportunities.
Human resources is not only the place you go when troubles arise, this department is vital to any company, they are often misunderstood and not utilized as they should be. HR (human recourses) may have started as a personnel department, they took care of pretty much anything that was related to people in the company. But, 20 years ago a new department was born when it was figured out that personnel department was dealing with human resources. Over the past 15-20 years HR has merged to management and development. If top management would let them HR could accomplish strategic goals of an organization. Most of the time HR is omitted from strategic decisions, but this is a dangerous decision by top management to make.
Google was selected because the firm has some of the best HR practices. This has resulted in employees showing greater amounts of loyalty and helping the company to enter new markets. Evidence of this can be seen with some of many benefits provided by the company including: free child care, legal aid services, an in house physician, a gym, lunch room and gourmet meals. According to the firm, their focus is, "Designed to take care of the whole you and keep you healthy, whether physically, emotionally, financially or socially." This is showing how Google's HR department is one of the key tools they are using to attract and retain talent. Learning from them will help to offer specific insights about creating an effective HRM strategy. ("Benefits," 2012)
From what began in the back of their family garage, Criterion Furniture was built on the vision that Wally and Brain Smaill had. The brothers built their ready-to-assemble furniture business into one of the biggest in Australasia. This report will discuss how Criterion may use human resource management and strategic management in planning the future success of the organisation as well establishing their competitive advantage. Human resource management comprises a set of policies designed to improve results and competitive advantage (Schermerhorn et al., 2014). And strategic management is the process of formulating and implementing strategies to accomplish long-term goals (Schermerhorn et al., 2014). Using tools that define strategic management such as a SWOT and PESTE analysis as well as the ideas behind human resource management, this report will allow Criterion to see how they can work to improve their strategic direction and establish their competitive advantage.
Human Resource structure is administrative and common to all organizations, especially to the big company like Tianyang Food, a food production company in China. HR department act as the support for the organization in the likes of law, compensation, benefit, safety and health of the employees and the organization. However, the improper management from the HR structure can put the organization in a very difficult situation.
The strategic management of the human resource is revealed at virtually all levels of the relationship between the employer and the employee, since the need for a new hire is identified, up to the point where the employee leaves the firm. Some focal points of this strategic HRM include the motivation of the employees, their training, their reward or the offering of adjacent incentives, such as flexible working schedules. Overall, it is the scope of strategic human resource management to ensure that
This report is concerned with analysing waterside Publications Limited from a strategic Human Resource management perspective, which is being taken over by the Americans. The Purpose of the report is to analyse both the management styles on the HRM perspective and make recommendations for the improvement of the people in order to function within the company, will look at the pestle analysis, stakeholder, strategy development, sustaining a competitive advantage, human and social development and organisational dimensions.