Impact of Regional and National Culture on HRM Practices

Human resource
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MIAN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Examine how value was created by the firm by using HR strategies. Use of concepts of
strategic HRM should be evident................................................................................................2
Analyse the impact of regional and national culture on the practice of HRM in the chosen
country.........................................................................................................................................3
Use appropriate organisation’s model of employment and state the organisational levels used
by the firm to create value...........................................................................................................4
Using Storey’s 27 points of difference between HRM and Personnel Management as a
benchmark, state what is being practised by the firm in the Asian Country- HRM policies or
Personnel Management or both...................................................................................................5
Explain how hiring and firing is consider the importance and significance of local culture and
HRM practice..............................................................................................................................6
Examine the differences in terms of employment laws when international HRM changes local
business systems..........................................................................................................................7
Recommendations:......................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to the proper management of workforce within an
organisation for better achievement of goals and objectives. It ensure that they hire people who
can be fit in company and job they have to do for the organisation. Proper management of these
resource helps in better planning and organizing in order to achieve competitive advantages. The
management of human resource also involve procurement and maintenance and development of
employees within an organisation. It helps the organisation to achieve better success by the
fulfilment of organisational needs and want for the employees and their performance. Human
resource management is continuous process (Armstrong, and Taylor, 2020) that involve
working of organisational teams towards same goal and objectives, in different ways.
In this report Marks and Spencer organisation is selected, company is British
multinational company operates in retail business and its headquarter is London, United
Kingdom. The offer clothing, home products and food products mainly, it has been listed in
London Stock exchange. The human resource department of the company helps them in better
success and proper arrangement of all workforce within an organisation. Human resource
management of the company provide better quality of product and services by the proper
utilization of employees and worker in the (Armstrong, 2019) organisation. Employees and staff
of the organisation helps them in better achievement of goals and objectives. HRM department
improve productiveness of the company and also manage the employees in most effective
manner so that they can achieve goal and targets. Marks and Spencer organisation provide proper
training to the new employees in order to achieve better performance and effectively
productivity. This report includes various aspects of human resource management that help the
company in better growth.
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MIAN BODY
Examine how value was created by the firm by using HR strategies. Use of concepts of strategic
HRM should be evident.
Human resource strategies helps the organisation in better achievement of objectives and
goals of the Marks and Spencer. They effectively (Aswathappa, and Dash, 2020) make plan for
the company so that they can achieve the proper engagement of employees and retain them with
the company for long time. Below is steps of strategic human resource management in context of
Marks and Spencer.
 Develop through understanding the objectives of Marks and Spencer: It is very
important to understand the goals and objectives of the company so that they can easily
work according to the achievement of task and goals of the company. Better
understanding what they want in future helps Marks and Spencer, to develop the HRM
strategies accordingly and use it in most effective manner.
 Evaluation of HR capacity: This can help the Marks and Spencer organisation, to
understand the capabilities of their employees and how they contribute in the company
with their jobs and task they do. They also examine (Stewart, and Brown, 2019)the skill
inventory of employees by which they came to know which employee is expert in
particular area of their performance. It also helps employees to get in specific area where
their performance lack to meet expected performance.
 Current HR capacity light of organisational goals: Analysing current human resource
practices helps Marks and Spencer, to understand the barrier in the implementation of
goals and objectives. Strategic human resource practices (Barrena-Martínez, López-
Fernández, and Romero-Fernández, 2019) helps to understand the number of employees
and their skills and capabilities in order to achievement of the goals and objectives they
want to meet with their employees capabilities and productivity.
 Estimate Future requirement of HR: Analysing the future needs and wants of HR
department helps in understanding the needs of employees in Marks and Spencer
organisation. By fulfilling those needs they can effectively make HRM strategic plan.
 Tools required for job performance: Various training and development programs are
needed to make perfect human resource strategic plan for the company. They also need
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