Strategic People Management: A Peer Review of a Video Presentation

Running head: PEER REVIEW
PEER REVIEW
name of the student:
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the various aspects of strategic people management
presented in the video. This paper will be analyzing key principals and theories of strategic
people management and how this help the organization to enhance the individual and
organizational performance. The paper will also discuss whether the video has presented all
of the raised issues needed to understand the strategic management of the company. The
issues regarding people strategic management have a lot of model and theories to discuss so
that the leaders can create an ethical organization by leveraging culture as well as diversity,
gaining competitive advantage by fostering innovations, incorporating the individuals, groups
and whole organization with systems and developing management and capabilities.
From the very beginning the video has been very systematic with pointing out the
importance of topic and what will be discussed in this video. In this video, the first thing
identified was the setting of the organization in which the student has claimed to be a part. In
this respect the student has discussed the complete information of the company, its location,
employee strength and most importantly its operation. In this video, the student has mainly
focused on the human resources of the company and the methods to manage them in gaining
effectiveness of the corporation. This SME where the student has served as the planning
engineer, follows a typical hierarchy chain of command and suffers from some issues within
the internal section of the company. The video has discussed the ethical problems which the
organization is facing for operating in a risky or unsafe work setting like gold mining. Here
the student has described the unethical issues related to the preferential treatments for supply
contracts, intentional or unintentional unsafe work or practices, environmental degradation
due to mining, financial profit shifting and finally practices to avoid tax (Naqshbandi, Kaur,
& MA, 2015).
In this particular context, the student has used number of studies to analyze the
impacts of the unethical behaviors in the organization. To him, there is a relation between

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unethical behavior with the cultural diversity in the company. The more culturally diverse the
workplace is more discrimination can be seen. In the country like Australia, the cultural
diversity in the workplace is much common but avoiding the allegation of discrimination on
the basis of race, religion, ethnicity or values must not be overlooked as these can cause the
defamation of the organization (Abdullah, Shamsuddin, Wahab, & Hamid, 2014). Here the
video has referred to many studies and discussion of the scholarly articles to show the
dysfunctional or counterproductive part of the human resource of the company and its effect
on the productivity of the organization. The video discloses the fact how the leader had
utilized the workforce of the organization to its fullest and enhance the working capabilities
by implementing new ideas and shifting other assumptions (Wang & Rafiq, 2014). The leader
has been shown the chief motivating factor who actually influence the work force of the firm
by showing the methods and building beliefs that they will be able to achieve the
organizational goals if they trust on their own potential (Hogan & Coote, 2014). In support of
increasing diversity in the organization, the student has referred to the scholarly article and
demonstrated how these diversities can enhance the productivity through mingling the
diverse ideology and experience.
The video has also supported strategic people management to be the key of gaining
competitive advantage. To this method, the company does not need to employ a completely
new department of marketing so that it can know what the market needs or the customers
prefer and bring changes in the production (Choi, Jang, Park, & Lee, 2014). By following the
method of manipulating the employees in one hand and build a highly engaging workforce.
The scholarly article has been used in this video in order to show how the human resource
manager can attract and retain the talents of his workforce. The effects of managing people in
the organization also leads to long-term survival of the company and help the management to
foster innovation (Nelson, Taylor, & Walsh, 2014). This is due to the fact that when the