Managing People and Organizational Behaviour

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Executive Summary
The report is based on the analysis of the strategic operational planning process and human
resource planning process that has been implemented by an organization named Westpac.
The challenges that are faced by the organization in the process of workforce planning and
strategic planning have also been discussed in the report. The levels of effectiveness of
human resource planning related practices that are developed by Westpac have been
analysed. The challenges that are faced by the organization are related to proper development
of manpower in order to fulfil different objectives. The two major models that have been
implemented for analysis of Westpac for proper development of human resources include,
high performance model and global mind set model. The aspects related to the operations of
Westpac bank based on the two models have been discussed in the report in detail. The
workforce planning activities that are performed by Westpac Bank have been discussed in the
report.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction................................................................................................................3
2. Findings and Analysis................................................................................................3
2.1 Relationship between strategic organizational planning and human resource
planning..................................................................................................................................3
2.2 Human resource planning process and methods..................................................6
2.3 Developing high performing and global mind set of employees and managers. .8
3. Conclusions..............................................................................................................10
References....................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction
The report will be based on the analysis of relationship between strategic
organizational planning and human resource planning based processes of an organization.
The challenges that are faced by different human resource professionals based on proper
alignment of strategic operational planning and human resource planning will also be a major
part of the analysis (Arnaboldi, Lapsley & Steccolini, 2015). The effectiveness levels of the
development of people-centred workplace and challenges that are faced by the HR
professionals will be analysed in the report. The model that will be applied in the report will
be based on discussion of potential challenges which can be faced by the HR professionals in
the proper planning of needs of manpower (Albrecht et al., 2015).
The organization that has been taken into consideration for the analysis is Westpac
Banking Corporation or Westpac. Westpac is financial service providing or banking based
organization of Australian origin. The headquarters of the organization are located at
Westpac Place, Sydney. The organization was established in the year 1817 after the merger of
two major organizations named Commercial Bank of Australia and Bank of New South
Wales (Westpac.com.au., 2019).
2. Findings and Analysis
2.1 Relationship between strategic organizational planning and human resource
planning
2.1 (a) The strategic organizational planning process can be defined as the method
that is used by an organization in order to define the strategy or direction that is helpful for
making different decisions or the proper allocation of resources for pursuing the strategies.
The control mechanisms are also able to play a major role in the proper implementation
strategies in different organizational aspects (Banfield, Kay & Royles, 2018).