Job Design Strategies in HRM

HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
How H R strategies were changed by the firm & use the concepts of strategic HRM....................3
Impact of environmental factors on culture of human resource plan.................................................4
Human Resource Model & stating how values was created by the firm............................................5
Storey’s 27 points of difference between human resource & personnel management benchmark....6
Analysing the job design strategies....................................................................................................8
Stating the hiring and firing strategies...............................................................................................9
Using corporate example firm using good HR practices & literature to justify.................................9
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management now become the basic requirement of the enterprises &
plays an appropriate part which enhance the effectiveness of the enterprises around the whole
globe. The foremost concern of the firm is employee’s satisfaction because a satisfied
workforce is more actively fulfill the requirements of their customers & clients (Aichmaier,
2017). HRM department is main contribution which works dedicatedly towards the welfare
of the workforce through the proper implementation of HRM practices like strategic hiring,
selection, training, career development, performance appraisal & many more. This project
will determine the aspects of HRM in context of British Airways which is famous flag carrier
airline of the UK. British Airways founded in 1974 & headquartered in London. This project
will discuss the concept of HRM & evaluate its strategies. This project will also determine
the affect of environmental factors, use HRM model, and also use the storey's 27 points of the
differentiate human resource & personal management. Furthermore, this project will analyze
the job design strategies , hiring & firing strategies , provide corporate example. Lastly this
project provides specific recommendations related to the HRM practices.
MAIN BODY
How H R strategies were changed by the firm & use the concepts of strategic HRM
As per the recent scenario, the requirement of the workforce is change so it is necessary
for the firm to analyses the current need of the employees in order to improve the working
situation of the firm. Due to changes in the need & demand of the workforce.. HR manager of
the British Airways is more concerned about their workforce and prepare a strategic planning
in order to formulate a specific HR strategies which can fulfill the requirement of the
workforce in an appropriate manner (Asfahani, 2021). HR manager determine 5 pillars which
can help full to frame a successful HR strategies such as legal requirements, employee
engagement, career development activities, corporate image & performance management
system. All these five pillars are playing a prominent part to frame a most appropriate HR
strategies which can provide best contribution in the development of the workforce of the
British Airways.
Strategic HRM
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Basically strategic HRM is considered as a proactive process which can help in
managing be requirement of the employees of the firm. Strategic HRM may involve some
specific components which is related to the attracting, executing, developing, retaining &
rewarding the workforce so that they can take a one step for other toward their performance.
Some specific benefits are considered by the British Airways in order to follow strategic
HRM such as improve job satisfaction level, health better work culture, increase customer
satisfaction, proactive resources management, effective approach to managing workforce &
enhancement of productivity (Baharuddin, 2021).
7 steps of Strategic HRM
There are seven steps are involved in order to maintain a strategic human resource
management of British Airways like understanding the company's objective, evaluation of
HR capabilities, analyze the current HR activities of British Airways in light of specific
goals, estimate future HR requirements, tools and techniques to complete the job role,
implementation of HRM strategies & evaluation & corrective actions. All these seven steps
of the strategic HRM is provide various advantages to the British Airways so that they can
effectively improve their working condition & evolve the performance of staff members so
that they can effectively achieve the organizational objectives (Katie Sawyer,2019)
Impact of environmental factors on culture of human resource plan
To achieve the market growth, it is mandatory for the HR manager to to prepare a a
effective working culture via specific HR plan. HR manager of the British Airways need to
conduct a strategic planning so that they can effectively formulator HR plan to maintain
organizational culture. In human resource plan, manager can consider all the environmental
factors and then analyze the impact of micro & macro both environmental factor. There are
various elements are involved in both micro & macro environmental factors that considered
by the British Airways are as follows-
Micro Environmental Factors
 Customers - Basically customers are contain under the internal or micro
environmental factor & the main motive of the British Airways is to satisfy the need
of their customers so that they can become their potential customers. British Airways
conduct proper market research to determine the current need of their customer
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