Importance of Local Culture and HRM Practices in Hiring and Firing

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1
Task .................................................................................................................................................1
Discuss how worth was created by the company using HR strategies...................................1
Evaluate the outcomes of regional & domestic culture on the practice of human resource
management............................................................................................................................2
Discuss the organisation's model of employment and also state the organisational levers helps
in creating value.....................................................................................................................3
Differentiate between Human resource management and personnel management using
Storey's 27 points....................................................................................................................4
Discuss the importance of local culture and Human resource management practices when it
comes to hiring and firing of individual................................................................................5
Explain the difference in employment law at the time of international HRM changes local
business system......................................................................................................................6
Use corporate examples of firms using good HR practices and literature to justify your stand.7
Discuss what suggestions/recommendations can be made by employers regarding HRM
practices to ensure that the organisational performance is high.............................................7
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................8
References .....................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Human resource management the activity involves controlling & managing human
resource in the organisation also training, motivating and compensating them effectively. The
main focus of human resource management is hiring right or skilled people for the right job in
the organisation, it involves availability of skilled employees also enhancing the performance of
existing employees by providing training giving regular feedback in the organisation. In this
report Bayerische Motoren Werke commonly known as BMW is taken as the base company
which has their headquartered in Germany and having presence in India also. BMW is one of the
top German international company manufacturing expensive cars and motorcycles. The BMW
was founded in 1916. The company is one of world's fourteenth largest producer of automotive
vehicles. This report covers detailed description on how values are created by company using
human resource strategies with outcome of regional & domestic culture on the practice of HRM
also administration model of employment is also highlighted above. In addition to this difference
between HRM and personnel management using storey's 27 point and HRM practices needs to
be considered when it comes to hiring and firing and also the difference in case of employment
laws. Further more various HR practices used by the company and various recommendation that
can be given in order to enhance human resource practices is also highlighted.
Task
Discuss how worth was created by the company using HR strategies.
Human resource management is process of ensuring availability of skilled human
resource in the organisation also managing and controlling existing human resource by regularly
evaluating their performance and providing required training to to them in order to develop their
skills (Adams, 2018). Human resource department needs to carefully manage its existing human
resource using various human resource strategies. It includes companies properly well evaluated
plan in order to manage its human resource, it helps in proper execution of various functions of
Human resource like hiring, selecting, training, enhancing performance, motivating and
compensating employees (Amirnejad and Azhdari, 2019). In context to the chosen company,
BMW company focuses on developing their employees and formulating best strategy for them,
human resource strategies touches all the functions of human resource management which helps
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in creating value by the company and increasing performance and profitability are discussed
below:
Learning and improvement: Human resource manager needs to ensure that employees
are regularly engaged in regular learning which helps then to grow effectively. In context to the
company engaging employees in the learning and developing them regularly in the organisation
helps in improving performance of employees and creating value (Billings, 2018) .
Compensation management: The employees are required to be compensated effectively
and efficiently by the human resource manager in order to be motivated and to create value in the
organisation. In context to BMW, human resource department effectively manages the
compensation of its employees in order to create value in the organisation.
People management: Human resource manager needs to ensure that people of the
organisations are managed effectively. In context to BMW company, human resource manger
needs to ensure that people at both the location in Germany and India are managed effectively at
right individual is attracted for the right position.
Performance management: The main area of focused by the company is evaluating
performance of the employees at both locations regularly and also providing regular feedback to
them in order to enhance their skills.
Evaluate the outcomes of regional & domestic culture on the practice of human resource
management.
The regional and national culture are the different norms, values and belief which can
effects the functioning of human resource management in the organisation. The national and the
regional culture effects the various facts of companies human resource department and its
policies also human resource administration and performance evaluation of the employees. The
national and regional culture has the immense effect on the norms, values, attitude of the
individual of the particular region or nation . Company needs to analyse that the culture
difference plays an important role when they are shifting from their regional culture to any other
culture. In context to the BMW, when company is shifting from Germany to India the culture is
effect their functioning and human resource department, so human resource department needs to
carefully study the culture difference in order to enhance their productivity, the outcomes of
regional and culture on the practices of human resource management are discussed below:
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