Strategic Human Resource Management at Starbucks

Case Study Starbucks

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
1. 1dentify and review functional aspects of strategic human resource management that is
applicable to the employees of Starbucks...................................................................................3
2. Determine the strategic human resource policies that Starbucks can adapt to fit into
declining markets, innovative capacity and international contexts.............................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Strategic Management can be explained as the process where planning, monitoring,
analysing and assessment is needed to be done for the purpose of accomplishing the goals of an
organisation. It is necessary to understand that strategic management should be adopted in each
and every organisation because it helps to provide relevant idea to organisation that how they can
attain the objectives which are pre-determined. The chosen organisation for this respective
project is Starbucks which are started in the year 1971. It is one of the fastest growing
organisation which performs business activity in different part of the world. In respect to the file
different questions will be solved which are related with identifying and reviewing functional
aspects of strategic human resources management also several HR policies will be explained in
it.
TASK 2
1. 1dentify and review functional aspects of strategic human resource management that is
applicable to the employees of Starbucks.
Strategic human resource management can be explained as a approach to the practice of
human resource which directly address the problems which organisation faces due to which long
term goals can be accomplished easily within the specific time period. The main duty which is
strategic human resource management have is to enhance the performance of business
organisation by utilising each and every resources which is available within the company. In
context of Starbucks, it is necessary to understand that strategic human resource management
plays the crucial role for improving the performance of every single employees (Becker and
Huselid, 2006). There are some of the functions of strategic human resource management which
has been discussed below:
Evaluating the Performance: In any of the organisation it is necessary to understand
that performance of every employees should be evaluated so that if there is any requirement to
improve the performance then it can be done easily. In context of Starbucks, it is very crucial for
their organisation to evaluate the performance of every single employees because it will help
company to provide additional option to improve the performance by providing the suitable
training to everyone.