Redesigning the Mission Statement for Human Resource Management at Greenwich Pharmaceuticals

Greenwich Pharmaceuticals
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT – 941143
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................3
1.1 Case Background.........................................................................................................................3
2. Redesigning the Mission Statement.................................................................................4
3. Developing New HR Strategies........................................................................................5
4. Workforce Planning.........................................................................................................7
5. Employee Performance and Wellbeing Issues................................................................9
5.1 Employee Well-Being Issues.......................................................................................................9
5.2 Aligning Performance Management and Mission Statement..................................................9
6. Employment Legislation.................................................................................................11
7. Conclusion......................................................................................................................13
8. Bibliography....................................................................................................................14
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Greenwich Pharmaceuticals
1. Introduction
1.1 Case Background
Greenwich Pharmaceuticals is an American company that has its subsidiary in the United
Kingdom as well. The company manufactures a wide range of drugs in the United States and
has around 400 employees carrying out different functions for the company. The company
has been operating in a very competitive market and has lost its sales because of a new
market entrant. The effect of the dropping sales has had an impact on the workforce of the
company too. The employees at Greenwich Pharmaceuticals have lost their morale and
confidence as well.
A new chief executive has been redeployed from the headquarters of the company to turn
things around for the United Kingdom subsidiary. He has been looking at a number of
operations and processes of the company and has recently started paying attention to human
resource policies as well. The existing human resource manager of the subsidiary has
resigned. The new chief executive of the company is not happy with the mission statement of
the human resource department of the company and has asked for a new mission statement
that should hold the department more accountable for organizational success rather than
focusing too much on providing service.
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2. Redesigning the Mission Statement
A mission statement is generally a short description of why an organisation exists, how it
operates, what are its goals and objectives, what customers does it serve, etc. The mission
statement of an organisation or a department should be simple and should be something that
the employees can relate to. It should be able to motivate the employees to collectively work
towards the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. The new mission statement
for the human resource department of Greenwich Pharmaceuticals is given below:
“To help the company in achieving its organizational goals and objectives and to optimize
employee performance levels by improving the workplace conditions, by strengthening
human resource management policies and by fostering better workplace relations between
employers and employees.”
The new mission statement of the human resource department would provide a unity of
direction to the human resource personnel. Rather than focusing more upon providing human
resource services, they would now be able to lay a greater stress on implementing human
resource policies that would help the organisation in achieving its goals and objectives. The
new mission statement would widen up the scope of the human resource department and
would convey the role that human resource management can play in the success of an
organisation.
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