University of Sunderland Strategic management of HR-桑德兰大学的人力资源战略管理
03-20, 2014
Part A
A部分
A部分
The international banking environment has changed quite dramatically since 2008 and most people have been so familiar with the news of banks bankruptcy. But there is a bank in Australia called Macquarie Bank looks very much alive when the banking industry is declining. It obviously shows in the case that Macquarie bank really made lots of tremendous strategies in the past 20 years. Its SHRM policies and approaches even can be defined as a norm HR text book. This report will go through all the key policies presented by Macquarie Bank to see how it related to our SHRM theories and current banking situations.
国际银行业的经营环境自2008年以来发生了非常显着的变化，大多数人已经非常熟悉的银行破产的消息。但在澳大利亚有一家银行被称为麦格理银行看起来非常有活力的时候，银行业正在下降。这显然表明在该情况下，麦格理银行在过去的20年确实做了很多巨大的战略。它的战略人力资源管理的政策和方法，甚至可以被定义为一个规范的人力资源教科书。本报告将通过所有由麦格理银行提出的主要政策，看战略人力资源管理理论如何与我们目前银行的情况相适应。
国际银行业的经营环境自2008年以来发生了非常显着的变化，大多数人已经非常熟悉的银行破产的消息。但在澳大利亚有一家银行被称为麦格理银行看起来非常有活力的时候，银行业正在下降。这显然表明在该情况下，麦格理银行在过去的20年确实做了很多巨大的战略。它的战略人力资源管理的政策和方法，甚至可以被定义为一个规范的人力资源教科书。本报告将通过所有由麦格理银行提出的主要政策，看战略人力资源管理理论如何与我们目前银行的情况相适应。
2. The features of SHRM in Macquarie Bank
2.麦格理银行.战略人力资源管理的的特点
2.麦格理银行.战略人力资源管理的的特点
As an example of highly successful organization in current banking industry, Macquarie Bank did a great job on strategic management indeed. Many changes have been made by Macquarie Bank which is proved quite correct and proper, and many departments of Macquarie Bank include the HR department ware using some international adjustment processes to follow unstable banking environment. Nevertheless Macquarie Bank does not have the all-encompassing human resource systems typical of some organizations. It follows an organic and developmental approach. The managers of Macquarie Bank developed something but not jump out from the meritocracy system.
作为在当前银行业非常成功的一个例子，麦格理银行在战略管理方面确实做的非常出色。许多变化都已经证明麦格理银行做得非常正确，麦格理银行的许多部门使用一些国际调整过程不稳定的银行环境中包括人力资源部门工具。然而麦格理银行不具备一些组织的全方位的人力资源系统典型的特征。它遵循有机和发展的办法。麦格理银行的经理开发的东西，但不能从精英系统跳出来。
作为在当前银行业非常成功的一个例子，麦格理银行在战略管理方面确实做的非常出色。许多变化都已经证明麦格理银行做得非常正确，麦格理银行的许多部门使用一些国际调整过程不稳定的银行环境中包括人力资源部门工具。然而麦格理银行不具备一些组织的全方位的人力资源系统典型的特征。它遵循有机和发展的办法。麦格理银行的经理开发的东西，但不能从精英系统跳出来。
Just like the management of Macquarie Bank mentioned when they talked about their SHR:” we recruit the best from universities and graduate schools; train on the job and pay top money, we are a meritocracy. We try to provide a flexible organizational environment where people can achieve. The policies are well suited to a flat organizational structure where specialist skills can be developed in small work teams, closely to the product-market interface”#p#分页标题#e#
There are some common approaches that companies will take to benefit their SHRM, normally there are three approaches related to Macquarie Bank:
1. The best practice view.
2. The best fit view.
3. The resource-based approach.
2.1 The best practice view
Firstly, let’s take a look at the first approach and see what Macquarie Bank have learned from the best practice view.
The core of the best practice view is about a single set or sorts of HR policies and practices will lead to better organization performance, even it has been sustained over a lengthy period or the bad current situation.
As we can see clearly in the case that most conception Macquarie Bank has taken with this approach is from which we called “the 18 key practices”. These key practices are Realistic job previews; Use of psychometric tests for selection; Well-developed induction training; Provision of extensive training for experienced employees; Regular appraisals; Regular feedback on performance from many sources; Individual performance-related pay; Profit-related bonuses; Flexible job description; Multi-skilling; Presence of work-improvement teams; Presence of problem solving groups; Info provided on firm’s business plan; Info provided on firm’s performance targets; No compulsory redundancies; Commitment to single status.
Surely the best practice view presents an attempt to improve HR practice in organizations and can be related to professional standards of employment. Through this approach, firms can recognize their business performance better, in spite of these positive issues, there still have some downsides might cause certain problems. For example, a suggestion that best practices do not fit business strategy, which is worrying when linked to the relevance of people management at top of the organization.
2.1.1 How Macquarie Bank’s approach relate to the Best Practice View:
The case tells us obviously that Macquarie Bank did use a lot of thinking and perceptions from the Best Practice View especially the 18 key practices. Some priority areas in Macquarie Bank’s HRM are exactly same as practices quoted from the 18 key practices. For example, the execution of recruitment and the selection is completely matched with Macquarie bank’s strategies and policies. It is been reported by many media that most business fail to make full use of modern HR practices, only 10% CEO agree that people are top priority ahead of marketing. That can explain why Macquarie bank is so tough and strong even though the banking is struck by the economic crisis. The intension of studying SHR approaches is guiding Macquarie Bank into a right track.
2.2 The best fit view#p#分页标题#e#
The second approach is The best fit view, which allows organizations to determine whether a “hard” or “soft” approach needs to be taken given by the prevailing environment. A “hard” view might include outsourcing, enhanced productivity, and emphasis on tighter contracting. A “soft” view relies on involvement, partnership, and communication. The best fit approach requires the firm to do the good job for integration, or to provide horizontal or vertical integration of key policy areas. How to find the best point to keep business strategy balance with HR strategy becomes extremely important. Business strategy and HR strategy actually is a two-way flow which means these two types of strategies are affecting each other.
2.3 The resource-based view
The last approach is resource-based view; it is a bottom-up view. A resource-based model has a different perspective from other approached, it looks first at the organization and its potential, and develops ways to exploit or enhance the available resources.
2.3.1 How Macquarie Bank’s approach relate to Resource-based approach:
The resource-based approach turns the role of SHRM become one of the creating systems focus not on external relationships but on how staff and their ability are used. Macquarie bank well aware of good employees are sorts of influential resources to keep their stability. They recruit the best from universities and graduate schools, train on the job and pay top money. That’s a system called meritocracy.
2.4 The benefits within those approaches
With these approaches, Macquarie Bank has achieved their goals and proceeded to higher level. Normally the strategic approach could bring Macquarie Bank many potential benefits such as:
a. Strategic integration with planning could ensure coherent HRM policies.
b. Commitment of employees to the organization and to high performance
c. Macquarie Bank is developing with multi-business, hence they are able to train multi-skilled workforce to increase the organizational flexibility.
3. The framework of SHRM and how current banking events which relate to this framework impact on SHRM.
3.1 The definition of SHRM
SHRM is a part of Human Resource Management in a Business Context discusses the basis, preparation and implementation of strategic HRM. Human resource management is closely identified with business strategy by many authors. In fact, HRM is typically distinguished from traditional personnel management by its concern with meeting business objectives in a strategic fashion.
3.2What coursed the economic crisis especially in banking industry?#p#分页标题#e#
The global economic crisis is a hot point which is known by people who have finger on the pulse; actually the origin of economic crisis was the
subprime mortgage crisis in US banking industry.
The subprime mortgage crisis is an ongoing financial crisis triggered by a dramatic rise in mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures in the United States, with major adverse consequences for banks and financial markets around the globe. The crisis, which has its roots in the closing years of the 20th century, became apparent in 2007 and has exposed pervasive weaknesses in financial industry regulation and the global financial system. 80% of U.S. mortgages issued in recent years to subprime borrowers were adjustable-rate mortgages. When U.S. house prices began to decline in 2006-07 and adjustable-rate mortgages began to reset at higher rates, mortgage delinquencies soared, and securities backed with subprime mortgages, widely held by financial firms, lost most of their value. The result has been a large decline in the capital of many banks and USA government sponsored enterprises, tightening credit around the world.
(From the “understanding the economic crisis”, by Kimberly Amadeo, 08/12/2008, Available at: http://useconomy.about.com/od/economicindicators/tp/Subprime-Mortgage-Primer.htm)
3.3 The priority policies taken by Macquarie Bank
In such a dynamic financial environment, how could Macquarie Bank keep moving forward? One of the main reason is the small size of Macquarie Bank bring lots of unexpected benefits and its combination of diversified strategies with a loosely coupled flexible organization. Compare with large banks such as city bank, Macquarie Bank’s short communication chains and collegial workforce culture led to more flexibility in responding the changing environment. The answer is quite clear if someone ask you that what kind of warship have better chance to survive in the wartime, a single aircraft carrier or a small nuclear submarine. Definitely the answer should be submarine; it has small size and has the capability to move up and down under water, which shows full sense of flexibilities, just like how Macquarie Bank survive in this period of economic trough.
The current policies shows Macquarie Bank is trying to create more powerful leaderships and build a new internal environment which contain something like open-plan office to let all levels of staffs share info with each other. Comparably, Macquarie Bank’s HR policies are the core competency to make it so successful recently.
The priority policies taken by Macquarie Bank in HRM ware:
A. Recruitment and selection (corporate image as an employer is important; use of psychological tests, and policy of “growing our own” from graduate trainees is a key strategy)
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B. Performance appraisal (an essential mechanism for tracking goal achievement and help in determine rewards)
C. Rewards and compensation
D. Organization and development (goals and value statement, team building)
According to these policies displayed above and the SHRM theories from module, and with current bank events samples, it should be easy to figure out how changing banking policies impact on SHRM.
3.3.1 strategic options in recruitment
A great deal of emphasis has been placed upon the identification of competence as a strategic formulation. The labor market is changing. Apparently the effect of the EU in opening up employment across national boundaries has been demonstrated by the introduction of a wide range of international staff with medical function in the UK. The use of flexible employment strategies such as home-working and tele-working has allowed new labor market to be opened up.
With three approached suggested by Rynes & Barbour (1990), the key areas when people doing current recruitment is marked:
a. Changing attraction practices.
b. Changing inducement offered to applicants.
c. Targeting –non-traditional sources of applicants.
The process of changing attraction practices involves a number of steps: broadening channels of recruitment; changing the recruitment behavior; changing the recruitment measures. Nowadays companies have more options when they are recruiting people, letters, emails, phone calls, which could give both employers and employees convenience. Companies may try to hire someone who is disabled people to do certain job because of the charitable mind.
There are other factors in strategic recruitment such as recruitment quality design, increasing use of IT technology and movement away from bureaucracy. The detailed factor will keep changing due to the dynamic environment. Anyway there have some issues people have to mention in recruitment which is constantly important:
l Possible lack of confidential
l Security risks
l Collusion between candidates or with the third party
l Untrained people may start providing untried products
l It may lead to an increasing use of selection without interview
3.3.2 strategic selection procedures
Today the aim of selection is to align assessment more closely with the specific criteria and demands of the particular task. A strategic approach to assessment is generally associated with attempting to use specific skills:
l in a simulated environment
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l through careful behavioral event interviewing.
It is known that competence-based application forms have been introduced widely to broaden the scope away from personal info, personal statement of why a person might want a job or be suited to the position. And people should focus on certain points if they want to simulate the BEI (behavioral event interview) such as specific past events; what that person actually did; why and how they did it.
3.3.2.1 CASE 1: DBS Group will be axing 900 staff
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Analysis:
Looking at people lay off anyway is pathetic and no banks include DBS would do that unless the situation is extremely bad. Under the strike of economic crisis, all banks are ranking their brains to find some way to reduce costs. Nevertheless the HRM can’t be forgotten, people still want jobs and banks still need fresh blood. Below are some changes when economic crisis start having impact on current banking especially in certain areas like HR.
From the successful strategies of Macquarie Bank, it is important to pay close attention to the professionalism in recruitment and marketing of the organization
l recruiting quality staff
l objectivity and fairness
l cost effectiveness and high retention
3.3.3 PMS (performance management systems)
Performance management systems (PMS) are a key integrator by allowing objectives in business plan to be fed into the rest of the HR systems. This step is related to the reward and compensation because recently organizations like Macquarie Bank is try everything to reduce its cost and boom its performance efficiency. There are many links with the HR planning approach which is possible to get an early view of the integrative power of PMS within the HR system interventions.
Just like Macquarie Bank mentioned in their strategies, performance appraisal is one of the key management process. Actually the performance appraisal schemes are not new, the discussion of managers about the progress of employees, their effectiveness in behaviours such as communication.
3.3.4 Reward and compensation
The strategic reward systems: Lawler’s 9 points model
Base of rewards
l job based, person based, skill based
Performance and incentivisation –scope for progression
l individual, group or organizational criteria.
Market position
l position in sector: upper/mid/lower
Internal VS external comparison
l internal V external equity
Centralized VS de-centralized reward
l decision making – localization
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Degree of pay hierarchy
l number of structures
l integration of job structures
Reward mix
l balance of pay and benefit
l degree of choice
l harmonization
Process issues
l communication policy: transparency
l decision making: extent of vision, individual involvement in job; pay evaluation and pricing
Reward systems
l Link to prevailing business
l Flexibility
l Consistency with other HR systems
3.3.4.1 Case 2: lehman Brothers bankrupt
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Analysis Lehman brothers bankrupted and that day was a nightmare. Thousands of lehman employees from all over the world suddenly lost their job. But the thing they lost is not as simple as a job, don’t forget the reward and numerous of compensation and benefit related to the job also lost, those people who still in the wall street start worrying about their future. As the result, people start to change, those people who are planning to look for a job changed their reward & benefits requirements. People would expect to have a better work environment. People would expect to see any reward as differential based on achieving result. They also might not need additional performance payments but the chance to stay at the company without axe problems.
The traditional SHRM theory would not fit the current situation anymore, those companies which refuse to change will definitely die.
.3.3.5 organization and development
Normally people use human resource management (HRD) to improve SHRM and help employee to be well-trained. HRD can be defined as any activities contributing to the development of people working for an organization.
HR manager always put HRD and VET (vocational and educational training) together to analysis the best way of improvement. How do people know an approach to HRD is strategic. First it is about the investment in VET and HRD contributes to the achievement of organizational objectives. Second we should know if line managers are actively involved in the diagnosis of training needs and the monitoring of development activities of staff. At last, VET and HRD is linked with other SHRM policies and procedures to achieve horizontal integration.
Most HR managers are using HRD as a catalyst for change. Actually HRD also can be used as a basis for competitive advantage in terms of HRD content and the way it is delivered.
4. The evaluation strategies made by Macquarie Bank to ensure the SHRM impact maximized.
Macquarie Bank has been successful in operating with unique SHRM approach so far but as the bank grows further the executives will have to assess whether these strategies can continue to work. Nevertheless the case demonstrates that participative evaluation can be an effective change strategy even in a turbulent environment, at least for a relatively small, highly specialized and successful niche player such as Macquarie Bank.#p#分页标题#e#
Evaluating HR strategy has always been seen as more problematic than its formulation or implementation. Most can be divided into two tiers of evaluation, one is strategic evaluation and the other one is operational evaluation.
4.1 Strategic evaluation
Strategic evaluation requires HRM concentrate on evaluating the translation of unit objectives from strategic objectives, and to be able to access what the performance choices of the organization are and the extent to which the skills, motivation, structure and HR system influence those choices. It has been summarized by O’Creery in four key areas which is influential to every firm:
l Strategic importance of HR in the organization
l Whether HRM practice in the organization reflects best practice
l Whether HRM practice support organizational goals
l The extent to which HR policies and practice work together to support the organization goal
If Macquarie Bank wants to move forward, it would not be enough to attention all 4 key areas. Macquarie Bank should increase the leadership effectiveness, to build the powerful and strong leadership. Keep eyes on how to improve workforce competence and build an effect performance culture.
4.2 Operational evaluation
Outcomes: it’s related to what I have mentioned before, the HR framework actually is the best way to set up a few question marks to remind Macquarie Bank where should be evaluated. Recruitment and selection; training and development; employee relations and overall HR management, each part has the potential to be improved.
Process: this normally constitute attitude survey to track and monitor staff reaction and opinions to such thing as:
1. Leadership style: effective working relations
2. Support and encouragement for training
3. Effective participation and involvement in appraisal, communication and job improvement processes
4. Involvement and knowledge of organization performance and change
5. Satisfaction with job and teams and conditions
6. Ability to raise concerns and have them effectively resolved
Macquarie Bank should see the full importance of these points. The managers of Macquarie bank should already see how an understanding of employee attitudes could be seen as critical to understanding the level and nature of employee commitment to organization goals and indeed the level of commitment or nature of the psychological contract with the organization.
5. Conclusion#p#分页标题#e#
Humans are an organization's greatest assets; without them, everyday business functions such as managing cash flow, making business transactions, communicating through all forms of media, and dealing with customers could not be completed. Humans and the potential they possess drive an organization. Today's organizations are continuously changing. Organizational change impacts not only the business but also its employees. In order to maximize organizational effectiveness, human potential—individuals' capabilities, time, and talents—must be managed. Human resource management works to ensure that employees are able to meet the organization's goals. From the case of Macquarie Bank, we have the reason to believe that good SHRM will bring banking industry a better future.
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2.4 There few goals we must pay full attention to it and try to pursuit it properly:
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10. Small case 1:
DBS Group will be axing 900 staff (6 per cent of their total strength) from Hong Kong and Singapore by the end of the month in an effort to reduce costs, said CEO Richard Stanley.
DBS posted a 38 per cent drop in quarterly profits on Friday. In order to be more productive and efficient, Mr Stanley said DBS will have to restructure and streaMLine the organisation.
DBS staff was informed of the forthcoming retrenchment but affected individuals have yet to be told.#p#分页标题#e#
Joyce says, “Looks like the economy is hitting pretty close to heart strings. 900 is some major retrenchment. Hope this economy will make a turn for the better quicker than expected.”
http://www.youth.sg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6458&Itemid=75)
11. Small case 2:
Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, has filed for bankruptcy protection, dealing a blow to the fragile global financial system.
The news led to sharp falls in share prices around the world, and officials took measures to reassure markets.
Lehman had incurred losses of billions of dollars in the US mortgage market.
Merrill Lynch, also stung by the credit crunch, has agreed to be taken over by Bank of America, the latest twist in a dramatic turn of events on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended more than 504 points lower on Monday, marking its biggest fall since the September 11 attacks.
The Nasdaq composite index shed 3.60% to 2,179.91 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 4.71% to 1,192.70.
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the US was "working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses".
But he added: "The American people can remain confident in the soundness and resilience of our financial system."
However he warned that uncertainty remained and it was likely that there would be further "rough spots" ahead before the market was corrected.
(www.bbc.com accessed at 14th march)
Part B
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
It has known that Human resource management (HRM), also can be called personnel management, consists of all the activities undertaken by an enterprise to ensure the effective utilization of employees toward the attainment of individual, group, and organizational goals. An organization's HRM function focuses on the people side of management. It consists of practices that help the organization to deal effectively with its people during the various phases of the employment cycle. This report includes two sections, in section a I have been asked to addressed a regional audience from a management institute on subject of “getting the most from your human resource function—a cost-effective value added service for 21th century”, I will prepare a briefing discussion paper addressing this question that can be circulated after the meeting. In section b I will discuss what should a strategic organization choose when they involved developmental activities, training or learning? From these particular areas, I think we can see how SHRM is changing and have the perspective thinking about the future of SHRM.#p#分页标题#e#
( Related to Q2 &Q3 in assignment paper)
2. Section a
At the beginning I realized the subject actually is all about how to make developments for HR departments function, it is necessary to find out what are the challenges faced by HR specialists and what are the emerging trends in HR work. After that, it is the time to assess the role of service centre organization of HR functions and plan about the cost-effective value added service for 21th century.
2.1 The challenges faced by HR specialists
For many HR specialists, to main problem they are facing is many procedures seem redundant and bureaucratic; few can be offered the security of long term jobs, regular pay increase and the career growth, yet there is increasing emphasis on the need to understand and exploit human capability within organizations. Importance is now attached to identifying competence as a source of competitive advantage.
There are three main challenges for HR specialist:
1. Confidence. Lack of confidence mat stem from a series of criticism of HR staff for being reactive rather than proactive. It could make HR policies lose strategic issues and become sightless when HR department wants to focus on the business.
2. Identity. The HRM identity of personnel is simply a name change, and the substance of personnel activities has not changed.
3. Direction. This challenge actually is significant. The degree of HR involvement in strategic policy making as opposed to implementation is problematic. There is someone called Torrington concludes that the prospects for the strategic development of HR functions are:
l HR is legitimately reactive and must create different solutions to the HR implication to change.
l Management should not devolve entire responsibility for HR policy to line managers. This dilutes effective people management across the organization.
l HR personnel must focus on the process of how people are employed, deployed, empowered and motivated.
Guest (1994) represented a theory that stresses the need to create HR policies that:
l Reflect new division of labor; that is, choice of where and how to work with organizations.
l Balance employee commitment to work, non-work activities and perhaps multiple organizations.
l Offer differing levels of commitment and flexible policies to fit these differing employee expectations.
l Offer contractual flexibility.
2.2 Trends in the management of HR functions
No matter what kind of HR service you are going to do, before everything start, you need to ask yourself, can your HR departments rise to the full strategic challenge through strategic policies fully integrated with those of the business? Normally people need to analyze the trends in management of HR functions before they enter into the implementation.#p#分页标题#e#
Some recent trends in the management of HR function are:
1. Auditing performance: this is the central to the setting up of service level agreement and clear expectation of HR’s role. This practice has been prevalent in costing HR’s contribution and also as a basis for open trending of service whereby the in-house function is to open to competition from private sector HR consultancy. The objective of auditing HR function is to ensure that the investment in personnel and training can be justified in business terms.
2. Devolution of HR activities: the objective of devolution is to ensure a more business-led personnel response to employment issues. It involves the reallocation of personnel activities from specialist either to line manager or other specialists or other locations away from the main headquarters of the organization. There have so many activities that HR departments should take responsibility. The activities could be classified into issues such as: Human resource planning and work organization; recruitment and selection; training, development and appraisal etc.
3. Decentralizing HR functions: generally, organizations tend to centralize activities to achieve greater control of process and costs, whereas decentralized activities are thought to allow companies to become closer to their customer base. Centralized structure tends to emphasis the development of specialist skills and knowledge. Decentralized structure lends themselves well to developing flexible management and employee skills and cross-function working.
4. Outsourcing: this part is extremely important if we want to create the cost-effective HR service. As with many business functions, outsourcing has become an important method of achieving flexibility and reduce costs. The arguments for outsourcing HR service can be summarized as follows:
l Outside organization can afford to retain a greater level of specialist knowledge that can be called upon when needed.
l HR activities are not core skills and therefore can be more easily bought in without loss of competitiveness or risk to business performance. The business of the business is not HR management.
l Professional skills have a greater impact when brought in. outside consultants have a better change impact rather than insiders.
However, like devolution we must be careful to look at what is being outsourced. Actually, what I am always doing to achieve the cost-effective HR service is to set up a particular office to handle outsourcing HR services.
(In the issues blow I assume I’m the supervisor of HR outsourcing service office, and I will show you how to make the cost-effective value added service really happen.)
2.3 The benefits of outsourcing service
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To sustain and excel in this immensely competitive business world you need to adopt strategies like the HR outsourcing services - that are cost effective as well as productive. More and more leading business houses are increasingly showing interest on outsourcing their non-core operations like managing the human resource and maintaining the payroll etc. For these services they are hiring third party service providers and outsourcing the jobs. This technique of HR outsourcing services is sure to give you some direct benefits like:-
· Effective HR solutions - As the service providers have specific expertise in the human resource sector, you get the perfect and useful solutions from them.
· Cost reduction - As the service providers of the HR outsourcing services charge much lesser than the cost of maintaining a human resource department, you will reduce the cost of operation significantly.
· Resource Management - As the HR outsourcing services take care of your human resource requirements, you can mobilize your available resources for the core areas of your business and hence increase the ROI.
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Infrastructure – if we have more subsidiaries and services centers assigned in different places, we will get the efficiency when some urgent missions come down.
Process Hygiene – if we follow a well designed guideline and flawless execution procedure for all the HR services including Executive Search, employee hiring on permanent basis and temporary staffing.
Values - Our services are driven by some core values that make us a class apart in the industry
2.4 There few goals we must pay full attention to it and try to pursuit it properly:
Goal 1: Focus growth in a manner that supports the cost-effective delivery of HRM services, including the cost of constructing, operating and replacing infrastructure and facilities.
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1. Maximize the use of spare capacity of existing infrastructure and encourage revitalization of under-utilized residential, industrial and commercial sites.
2. Identify and address infrastructure needs critical to business investment.
3. Attract private sector investment through regional growth planning, infrastructure investment and overall fiscal stability.
Goal 2: Achieve appropriate sharing of infrastructure and facility costs between developers, residents, HRM and other sources.
Objectives:
1. Review Capital Cost Contributions biannually, in consideration of the fiscal sustainability of new development/growth trends.
2. Increase the level of investment by federal and provincial governments in growth related infrastructure and facilities through mutual dialogue, ensuring all investments are appropriate to HRM's long range development goals.
3. Seek appropriate tools from the Province, to enable financing of development related facilities not already enabled in the Municipal Government Act.
Goal 3: Match infrastructure, facilities and services investment with HRM's capacity to pay.
Objectives:
1. Review the long term financial plan and the Regional Plan in the light of each other.
2. Link financial commitments for services such as transportation, schools, libraries, solid waste collection, recreation and parks operations, to the development approval process.
3. Ensure that HRM's tax structure encourages cost effective and efficient development.
Goal 4: Engage citizens in an ongoing dialogue through education, promotion and public debate on regional and local issues.
Objectives:
1. Achieve a high level of satisfaction from members of the public in the quality and timeliness of information that was provided for major decisions.
2. Increase the use of innovative public participation tools where appropriate, such as visual preference surveys, design workshops, 3-D modelling and web based communication.
3. Increase level of volunteer participation and public consultation in HRM initiatives.
4. Confirm public general understanding and support through routinely undertaking surveys to determine public awareness levels.
Goal 5: Coordinate land use policies and regulations with neighbouring counties and the Province, minimizing artificial incentives to development dispersal and associated transportation and servicing costs.#p#分页标题#e#
Objectives:
1. Avoid a shift in development from HRM to neighbouring counties attributable to land use regulation.
2. Establish an on-going liaison group with neighbouring counties and the Province, to ensure that the respective policy and regulatory environments are coordinated.
Goal 6: Facilitate an understanding of, and commitment to growth management among all levels of government, the public and key private and voluntary sector partners.
Objectives:
1. Obtain amendments to the Municipal Government Act to expand HRM's authority for influencing land use, site layout, environmental quality and building design.
2. Obtain legislative authority to implement innovative traffic control measures and dedicated lanes to support walking, cycling, carpooling and transit use while reducing energy consumption.
3. Periodically review the regulatory process with the public and development industry.
Goal 7: Streamline development regulation while maintaining a high level of public confidence in the approval process.
Objectives:
1. Eliminate out-dated and ineffective requirements.
2. Adopt development approval processes which add value rather than time, and which focus consultation on the issues of most interest to the public.
3. In consultation with the public, produce robust community plans which do not require excessive or repeated amendments to accommodate development proposals.
4. Increase the percentage of development applicants who conclude the process.
Goal 8: Identify areas of regional significance and ensure that policies and regulations for these areas reflect the collective interests of HRM citizens.
Objectives:
1. Provide policies that recognize the strategic value of key locations and other emerging centres to the long-term economic and social well-being of the region.
Goal 9: Ensure strong, consistent and pro-active code enforcement to maintain neighborhood and community integrity
Objectives:
1. Ensure that regulations are intelligible for enforcement purposes.
2. Support an efficient and effective monitoring and enforcement regimen.
3. Establish integrated and automatic enforcement procedures.
If you have been empowered and got the ability to achieve those goals, it would be a pretty easy job for you to reduce the cost of HR service
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3. Section b
The learning and development, in almost every developing country for example China, will be defined as the key activities. From the time China was just established to nowadays it is described by many reports as the fastest developing country, Chinese people use only 50 years to achieve it. If I am the supervisor of HR department and I am trying to make some new HR development strategies, China’s development will definitely be a successful sample to give us some revelations.
But, is there any difference between learning and training? Should we shift from the training mode to learning mode and put extra attention at learning? Be more specifically, all questions could combine into one, that is, Training, learning and development, what is the difference between them?
Well there are a number of very important reasons. As we all know, knowledge is locked up with the employees of a Company and it is this factor that determines how successful a business is. If as a manager you don’t understand this point, then the performance of the Company will be jeopardised.
So why is it important to understand the exact definition of these terms? Well it’s because they are used in an inexact way which is often interchangeable. People do not use them in an exact way or in accordance with their literal definitions. This will cause problems when you come to develop your employees as the inability to match your training, learning or development objectives with the right programme will not only result in you wasting valuable time but also wasting money and undermining your credibility in the eyes of your employees.
For instance, Call of the Wild Ltd place great emphasis on this issue when they initially meet with clients. It is important to understand what the objectives are and what will be the best programme to meet these objectives using our blended learning approach. they seek to clarify for the clients what the actual terminology means and what form of delivery is required so that they can get best value out of the programme.
In simple terms, education provides a knowledge base that underpins any other activities the individual may engage in at a later stage. Training is not as general and tends to concentrate on skills development. “Development” allows both activities to be integrated. It has been described as “the general enhancement and growth of an individual’s skills and abilities through conscious and unconscious learning”.
Development, therefore, includes education and training as well as a range of other activities such as coaching, looking, listening and mentoring. Learning is the outcome of both training-led and education-led approaches to development, yet learning itself is complex. It is far more than the shifting of knowledge or information from educator/trainer to the learner.#p#分页标题#e#
This is where Call of the Wild’s approach is different to others in that they recognise that people have different learning styles and they seek to focus on self-learning through our bespoke development programmes. They understand that learning is not simply something that takes place as a formal process in a classroom. They understand that there is a need to incorporate a wider range of activities in the typical learning mix – their blended learning approach.
Training is something you do. Learning is something that happens. Learning should be the major outcome of training. Sometimes having a trainer speeds up the learning process.
Training is successful if learning occurs. Changed behavior in the workplace is essential if organizations are going to grow and develop. Planned training that relates to the current organizational direction can make a real difference.
In the old time, I might believe that training and learning are both important, because employees in companies existed as human beings, and all human has the character we called deactivation, if you don’t force them to do something, they will become lazy. But in recent year, with the development of scientific psychology, we could make a scientific and effective regulation inside the strategic organization and reduce the deactivation during learning process.
Hence, I think nowadays learning is more important than training. In another words, I totally agree that organizations should shift the focus from “training” to “learning”.
I hope that all organizations could remember the words in quotation marks.
“Focus on learning, not training.”
Analysis: “training” suggests putting stuff into people, when actually we should be developing people from the inside out, so they achieve their own individual potential, what they love and enjoy, what they are most capable of, and strong at doing, rather than what we try to make them be.
“Learning far better expresses this than training”
Analysis: training is mostly a chore; people do it because they are paid to. Learning is quite different, people respond to appropriate learning because they want to, because it benefits and interests them, and also because it helps to grow and to develop their natural abilities, to make a difference and to be special.
Training is something happens at work. Learning is something that people pursue by choice at their own cost in their own time. Does it not make sense for employers to help and enable that processes? Of course it does.
The word “learning” is significant: it suggests that people are driving their own development for themselves, through relevant experience, beyond work related skills and knowledge and processes. “Learning” extends the idea of personal development to beliefs, values, wisdom, compassion, emotional maturity, ethics, integrity and most important of all, to helping others to identify, aspire to and to achieve and fulfill their own unique individual personal potential.#p#分页标题#e#
Learning describes a person growing. Whereas “training” merely describes, and commonly represents, transfer of knowledge or skill for organization gain, which has generally got bugger-all to do with the brain. No wonder people don’t typically enjoy or queue up for training.
When we help people to develop as people, you create far greater alignment and congruence between work and people and lives—you provide more meaning for people at work, and you also build and strengthen platform and readiness for any amount of skills, processes, and knowledge development that your organization will ever need.
Obviously do not ignore basic skills and knowledge training, for example: health and safety; how to use the phones, how to setup your desktop etc. Of course these basics must be trained, but they are not what makes the difference. Train the essential skills and knowledge of course, but most importantly for the person, beyond work skills to help them grow and develop for life, to help them to identify, aspire to, and take steps towards fulfilling their own personal unique potential.
“Develop the person, not just the skills and knowledge”
Analysis: skills and knowledge are the easy things. Most people will take care of these for themselves. Helping and enabling and encouraging people to become happier more fulfilled people is what employers and organizations should focus on. Achieve this and the skills and knowledge will largely take care of themselves.
“Give people choice”
Analysis: give people choice in what, and how and when to learn and develop, there is a world of choice, and so many ways to access it all. People have different learning styles, rates of learning, and areas of interest. Why restrict people’s learning and development to their job skills? Help them learn and develop in whatever way they want and they will quite naturally become more positive, productive and valuable to your organization.
At last part let’s see how to use HRD strategies to achieve the purpose of learning and developing.
To understand the critically of HRD in a highly competitive global marketplace, it must be set in the context of organizational development. Today there is an increased focus on organizational development in the quest for a high-performance culture. Learning and development is central in this equation.
Organizational development is undertaken to achieve a flexible and creative organization that constantly seeks to improve and reinvent the way it carries out its business, and serves its customers. As we have noted, a high-performance culture is its goal. Flexibility not only enables an organization to embrace change, but exploit change in the external environment to organizational advantage. Central to organizational development is integrated working; integrated working through inter-disciplinary teamwork and cross-function collaboration enabled by new technologies (e.g. IT technologies such as knowledge bases, information and contextual search engines). Such integrated working practice require culture change, and learning is vital in bring about change.#p#分页标题#e#
To promote leaning and development many large corporations have their learning own learning organizations, corporate universities or corporate business schools. The successful of those organizations is highly dependent on how well learning initiatives are aligned to business objectives.
4. Conclusion
After analyzing the cost-effective HR services and HRD strategies, it will show obviously that how HR turns from purely personnel management into a organizational combination which is challenging most HR managers and enforce them to make the right strategies, under the economical crisis, we cannot afford the extra cost brought by wrong HR strategies.
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