Strategic HRM

Strategic HRM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Explain prominent strategies and approaches that are useful in terms of preparing and training
employees who work at overseas locations and also suggest best approach..............................1
Discuss the prominent challenges which employees face in working abroad and also describe
the HR practices that help in overcoming from the difficulties .................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Strategic human resource management is undertaken as the prominent combination of
strategy and HRM as it is important in terms of managing people. It tends to explain the impact
of working in HR as it is the distinctive approach for the effective management of employment
in terms of achieving competitive advantage considering the strategic deployment of capable and
highly committed workforce undertaking prominent techniques (Stokes and et. al., 2019). SHRM
tends to design and help company in terms of meeting with the needs and requirements of
manpower and promote the objectives of an organisation. It is the proactive management of
people that need better thinking and also meet the basic requirements of employees. To carry
forward this report, Dyson Ltd is considered which is a British technology company and located
in UK which is founded by James Dyson in 1991. Company deals in effective designing and
manufacturing of household appliances including vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, heaters, hair
dryers and so on. Currently, Dyson move its headquarter to Singapore in 2019 in terms of
manufacturing for their electric vehicle. The report is going to cover the prominent strategies and
approaches in terms of preparing and training groups of employees to work across various
locations and discuss the prominent challenges of employees who work abroad and face
difficulty.
MAIN BODY
Explain prominent strategies and approaches that are useful in terms of preparing and training
employees who work at overseas locations and also suggest best approach
Employee training is undertaken as the most critical part in terms of effective employee
experience as it depicts that when the new employee is ready to work in the company and also
tends to absorb the prominent information considering the policies and process of company that
consider the roles and responsibilities. In terms of this, advancement in technology bring
efficiency in the training methods and offer various ways to managers to consider various
training methods (Colakoglu and et. al., 2019). In terms of this, various training methods are
discussed that are beneficial and can be opted by Dyson Ltd in terms of providing training to
their employees as it is helpful in order to boost their knowledge and skills to perform effectively
in bid to achieve goals and objectives. Employers and employees have various ways in terms of
developing skills of employees and also overreaching their goals to strengthen employees
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towards their range of skills considering flexibility, creativity, communication and so on (11
Employee Development Methods, 2020). Some of the methods are mentioned as under:
Training: This method consider the effective development of employee skills with the
help of proper combination of videos, podcasts, group based assignments, simulations and so on.
It tend to include both formal and informal approaches regarding the development of skills as
each and every option need particular development towards the requirements of company (Boon
and et. al., 2018). For instance, in Dyson, instructor led training is undertaken as the best option
in order to teach regarding the detailed procedure for trade considering complex manufacturing
process of products in an organisation. This method is effective for those employees of Dyson
who tends to address both hard and soft skills and for this, employees need to undergo for
effective training for their prominent development of career.
Task/job rotations: In this, employers tends to motivate job sharing as an effective
method for employees that tends to indicate the prominent desire regarding the practical
experience in terms of developing additional skills. In regard of this, the goal of this method
towards employees is that they can learn something new and also get prominent chance to learn
something innovative and fresh (Hu, Wu and Shi, 2016). In relation with Dyson, this method is
best suited for those employees in terms of training about flexibility and adaptability among
employees and also tends to offer great details in terms of depending about technical skills and
also develop ancillary skills like conflict management, time and stress management.
Coaching: By considering the various methods for employee development and their
benefits, employer cannot stress about the significance of helping employees in terms of
polishing their skills with the help of coaching. In relation with Dyson, this method of skill
development is effective as it tends to include senior staff members to work with less
experienced individuals (Boxall, 2018). This method is effective in terms of understanding
regarding the variety of topic as this approach is time consuming and result oriented as in this,
employees of Dyson tends to learn something subjective from their co-workers and mentors.
Moreover, this approach tends to focus on prominent learning and also focus on the specific
organisational skill as it tends to become ideal for the effective development of skills.
Conferences: It represent that individuals and employees need to attend much
workshops, committees and conferences that are useful in terms of gaining better exposure and
vast knowledge in terms of interdisciplinary and outside industries as well. In terms of Dyson,
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