Nam of the University: Human Resource Strategy Nam of the University

Running head: HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY
Human Resource Strategy
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The increasing competition in the market and the changing global market and
environment, have profound impacts upon the human resource departments of any
organization. Therefore, it is indeed important that proper strategies should be included
within the organizational structures to approach and redress the human resource department.
According to the industrialists, it is equally important to put equal effort and make equal
investment in the department of human resource, to gain a competitive advantage in the
market. The following essay will therefore discuss about the issues and challenge related to
the human resource department of the company Marks and Spencer, and further relative and
appropriate solutions or strategies will also be made.
Marks and Spencer is one of the major retailer business house of UK. With its’
headquarter in Westminster, the country has its retail chains almost all across the world,
selling clothes, food, home decors and financial services. The company has a well strategized
business plan, with the aim to deliver quality products, in affordable prices. The company
also maintains a good human resource management structure. The human resource
department of the company does not encourage any kind of discrimination and ensures that
the healthy, flexible and harassment free organizational environment. The human resource
department also ensures equal treatment to all the employees of the company. The
organization also provides appropriate training programs to all the employees of the
organization to ensure a clear understanding of the organizational conducts, and to better the
quality of the products. However irrespective of a clear and appropriate human resource
structure the organization is faced with certain challenges in the human management process
and system.
The existing human resource management structure of the organization aims to
maximize the output of the organization and increase the customer base of the same. The
human resource department of the organization also aims to improve the performance of the

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employees and also initiate a strategic structure to lustrate the organizational goals and
organizational strategies through rigorous training and development of the employees. The
organizational ensures about the organizational rules and policies within the organization.
The organization focuses sufficiently upon the legislative structure of the organization, and
focuses on the safety and the security of the employs. The organization also includes proper
risk management plans to assess and manage the risk situation within the organizational
structure. The organization has also implemented different structure and different resource
management teams with different sets of responsibilities, to account these areas. Therefore it
can be stated that the organization invests equally upon the business management and
strategies and the human management and strategies. However, there are certain areas where
the company can and should focus more.
Firstly, , the organization is also facing a trade union problem, as they have presently
changed an organizational structure, whereby, the existing structures are now outdated and a
new set of organizational policies and rules have been included in the system. This has
affected the wage management system of the organization. The current wage of the
employees, are marginally above the ‘living wage’ that is practiced within the country and
with the changed incentive structure, the overtime count of the employees has become out of
control and this is affecting the gross earning of the organization (Diaz et al., 2015). The set
working hours and the work measurement have completely distorted, and the human resource
team, who is primarily responsible for thee conducts have seen to be taken no initiatives to
deal with this circumstance.
Secondly, the organization must focus more into the processes of innovation.
Innovation is indispensable in the modern organizations. With the changing environment and
market orientation. The demand of the customers have also changed, and the pattern of
conducting businesses have also changed. Therefore the system of innovation is the key to