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Monday 11 March 2013

Solution Chapter 1 HRM Book




Answer:
     1. HR department is playing a more significant role in the organization because that the Human resource will play a substantial role in the business. In order to perform this rote HR professionals should have: Thorough Knowledge of business as well as of Human resource functions, the ability to lead any change process, innovation, problem solving , the leadership ability to influence the organization, etc. HR department with the right skills can contribute to a Six Sigma initiative at both strategic and tactical levels.
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/13653138/Importance-Of-HRM)

2  2. HRM activities play a major role in ensuring that an organization will survive and prosper. Organizational effectiveness or ineffectiveness is described in this book in terms of such criteria and components as performance, legal compliance, employee satisfaction, absenteeism, turnover, training effectiveness and return on investment, grievance rates, and accident rates. In order for a firm to survive and prosper and earn a profit, reasonable goals in each of these components must be achieved. In most organizations, effectiveness is measured by the balance of such complementary characteristics as reaching goals, employing the skills and abilities of employees efficiently, and ensuring the influx and retention of well-trained and motivated employees. Around the world, managers are beginning to recognize that human resources deserve attention because they are a significant factor in top-management strategic decisions that guide the organization’s future operations. Three crucial elements are needed for firms to be effective: (1) mission and strategy, (2) organizational structure, and (3) HRM. However, it is important to remember that people do the work and create the ideas that allow the organization to survive. Even the most capital-intensive, best-structured organizations need people to run them. People limit or enhance the strengths and weaknesses of an organization. Current changes in the environment are often related to changes in human resources, such as shifts in the composition, education, and attitudes of employees. The HRM function should provide for or respond to these changes.
The changes experienced by organizations around the world include growing global competition; rapidly expanding technologies; increased demand for individual, team, and organizational competencies; faster cycle times; increasing legal and compliance scrutiny; and higher customer expectations. These changes combined with the realization that the performance of a firm’s human assets must be managed, led, and coached have resulted in the need for more strategic planning and modern leadership practices. The mechanized or routine-oriented workforce is giving way to a more knowledge-based, information-rich workforce.
source: highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/Sample_Chapter.pdf

3   3.  The globalization influence the HR. It's caused by :
Recruitment :
Globalization makes for a larger labor pool from which to choose, but it also increases the possibility of language and cultural barriers in the recruitment process. If the company does not address such barriers, it can make the recruitment process increasingly time-consuming and difficult.
Labor Laws
Labor laws can differ greatly from one country to the next. With increasing globalization, human resources managers must stay abreast of the labor laws of the countries in which they operate to ensure that the company is not inadvertently breaking these laws.
Labor Force Implications
Globalization has a significant effect on the labor force of a company. It allows for more diversity within the corporation as well as economic growth for the countries in which the company is hiring. However, unless the corporation is creating new jobs in different countries and not simply moving existing jobs from one country to another, job growth for one country equals job losses for another. 
(Source : wikihow / Effects of Globalization on Human Resource Management)

4   4. Organization is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. The word is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon which means "organ" – a compartment for a particular task. The purpose of an organization is to accomplish the goals and objectives as indicated within the organization's vision statement. The mission statement will indicate how they plan on reaching those goals and objectives.
Human resource management is devoted to providing effective policies, procedures, and people-friendly guidelines and support within companies. Additionally, the human resource function serves to make sure that the company mission, vision, values or guiding principles, the company metrics, and the factors that keep the company guided toward success are optimized. So that, HRM function increased in stature and influence in many organizations.
(sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization, and http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_purpose_of_an_organization)

5   5. Accreditation procedures ensures a specific level of quality according to the institution’s mission, the objectives of the programme(s) and the expectations of different stake-holders, including students and employers. The process usually results in the award of a recognition status (yes/no, a score on a multipoint scale, a combination of letter grade and score, an operating licence, or conditional deferred recognition) for a limited period.
Accreditation is commissioned by a suitable and recognized agency and encouraged by stakeholders to ensure ‘value for the money’, that is, accountability through evidence of results. The accreditation process provides transparency in the functioning of the higher education system. The identification of weaknesses through the accreditation process allows the system to adopt corrective measures and improve quality. The competitive spirit resulting from accreditation also helps enhance quality.
Finally, in the globalized economy, accreditation is important for the mutual recognition of credentials, which allows institutional, regional, national and international mobility among students, depending upon the scope of the accreditation. That’s why for those who already join the accreditation, they will become professional.
Source : upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/bitstream/2099/8095/1/bikas.pdf 

6   6.  HR executives face should realize that they become valuable members of the executive committee and have earned a seat at the table not just by recruiting and retaining talent HR has to play a more proactive role and not a reactive role. The difficulty of assessing and communicating for HR executives face is to integrate assessing HR into the various business units within the company and communicating between all.  So HR executives face need to have be brilliant in the management of human capital and be very savvy in the ways of business. (http://www.russellreynolds.com/content/long-view)

7   7.  His statement is false, HRM have significant role in company. More then that, the HRM function today is concerned with much more than simple filing, housekeeping, and record-keeping. When HRM strategies are integrated within the organization, HRM plays a major role in clarifying the firm’s human resource problems and develops solutions to them. It is oriented toward action, the individual, worldwide interdependence, and the future. Today it would be difficult to imagine any organization achieving and sustaining effectiveness without efficient HRM programs and activities. The strategic and competitive advantage importance of HRM to the survival of an organization will become clearer as we move into the book. Strategic HRM differs significantly from traditional HRM. The main responsibility for managing human resources in a traditional arrangement rests with HR specialists in a division (large companies) or team. In a strategic approach the main responsibility for people management rests with any individual that is in direct contact with them, such as line managers. Thus, any individual in an organization who has responsibility for people manages human resources in addition to his or her regular position. For years the HRM function had not been linked to the corporate profit margin or what is referred to as the bottom line. The role of HRM in the firm’s overall strategy was usually couched in fuzzy terms and abstractions. HRM was merely a tagalong unit with peopleoriented plans, not a major part of planning or strategic thinking.
(source : Human Resource Management Mc Graw Hill page 7)

8  8. Because policies free managers from having to make decisions in areas in which they have less competence or on matters with which they do not wish to become involved.  Policies ensure some consistency in behavior and allow managers to concentrate on decisions in which they have the most experince and knowledge. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/13653138/Importance-Of-HRM)

9   9.  Because small firms, with limited opportunities, limited markets and limited resources, must use every means available for improving performance and insuring survival. Although many human resource management(HRM) practices are advocated as leading to firm improvement and/or survival, little research in this area pertains to small businesses. Small firm owners have been poked and prodded and studied, but we still know very little about their management capabilities. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/13653138/Importance-Of-HRM)

1  10.  Don Brokop’s decision is very good, cause he jump from production to top management. Don see very much elements in the company that struck him such as problems, issues, and challenges. In production filed Don very expert proven by winning the outstanding plant manager award, this means that he already get his comfortable zone and needs something new to explore his skill. From Human Resources Management viwe Don needs to move from his current position in order to improve, explore and prove to himself and other that he capable to manage the company with top management position (source: HRM book)



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