Impact of Globalization on HRM: A Volkswagen UK Case Study

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MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS PROJECT
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON HRM OF VOLKSWAGEN UK
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
P1 Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................................4
P2 Aspects of Cost, Scope, Time, Quality, Communication, Risk and Resources.....................6
M1 Comprehensive Project Management Plan, Milestone Schedule and Project Schedule for
Monitoring...................................................................................................................................8
P3 Work Breakdown Structure & Gantt Chart to Give Timeframes and Stages.........................9
LO2................................................................................................................................................11
P4 Research Methods for Achieving Project Goals and Objectives..........................................11
M2 Accuracy and Reliability of Applied Research Methods....................................................14
LO3................................................................................................................................................15
P5 Analysis of Research and Data.............................................................................................15
P6 and M3..................................................................................................................................20
LO4................................................................................................................................................23
P7 and M4..................................................................................................................................23
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................25
REFERENCE LIST.......................................................................................................................26
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Introduction
Globalization refers to the activity of exchange between countries. It improves culture sense,
fashion sense for the developing countries. Globalization increase trade activity, exchange of
thoughts and ideas in between countries and also provides several good job opportunities for the
job seeker. Globalization made a huge impact on Human resource management as it improves
the level of employees in the business organization also helps business to find potential
employees for the organization.
The study report shows the impact of globalization on the Human resource department of
Volkswagen UK. Volkswagen UK is a world known Car manufacturing multi-National
Company that offers customers the services of luxury cars. Volkswagen UK sells new and used
cars and customers can also customize the interior and exterior of their favourite car.
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LO1
The Human Resource Management (HRM) department of Volkswagen UK is highly improved
with the help of globalization. Globalization improves the recruitment and selection process of
the HRM department of Volkswagen UK (Brewster et al., 2016). It helps to find more skilled
and talented employees for the business organization from all over the world and also provides
many opportunities for the current employees to develop and improve themselves.
P1 Aims and Objectives
The aims and objective were set to draw an effective outcome from the study. It makes the
research efficient and can help to cover the area of research. Following are the aims and
objectives of the research study:
 To critically understand and observe the recruitment and selection process in the HR
department of Volkswagen UK.
 To understand the positive and negative effects of the globalization through a research
study.
 To understand the influence of globalization on the HR department of Volkswagen UK.
 To keenly observe the staff turnover and the reasons for it in Volkswagen UK (Stone and
Deadrick, 2015).
 Suggestion and recommendations for the HR department of Volkswagen UK to improve
the working process.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Holton (2011), globalization is the activity of globalizing the business organization
on the world level. It is the activity of sharing thoughts and information, ideas and technology
and also interchanges products and services on the global level. Further added by Kirchmer
(2011), Globalization leads to competition which influences the organization to increase the area
for business activity and reach the customers of all over the world.
According to Stone and Deadrick (2015), globalization changes the thinking capacity of
employees it makes them more creative and innovative in their work also increase the efficiency
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of work. Knowledge and skill of the employees matter the most in a business organization and
with the help of globalization, it significantly improved. Globalization helps HRM to
successfully nourish the skills of employees (Deadrick, 2015).
According to Noe et al (2017), globalization helps HRM to take the competitive advantage as the
competition is close and business needs skills employees for that globalization helps HRM to
seek the talents and skills in the employees. The impact of globalization on HRM of any business
organization can be seen by the performance & effectively improved of the employees in the
organization (Noe et al., 2017). Globalization introduces many techniques for the Human
resource management says Brewster et al (2016), with the help of globalization Human resource
management is significantly improved. It brings e-HRM into action which can provide more
opportunities for a business organization as well as job seekers.
According to Paauwe and Boon (2018), Globalization introduces various strategies and
techniques for the HRM. The work and process become easier for HRM. Globalization makes
Selection and Recruitment process effective and efficient. The HR manager is more capable of
finding the right person for the company with effective strategies and techniques (Paauwe and
Boon, 2018). Also, globalization increases the productivity of HRM.
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P2 Aspects of Cost, Scope, Time, Quality, Communication, Risk and Resources
COST MANAGEMENT PLAN
Cost management is very important for any activity as it avoids spend money on unnecessary
activities. The effective cost management plan can save money.
SCOPE
There are many scopes for the Human resource department of Volkswagen UK in context to
globalization. As globalization improves the work process of the HRM the scope can be
described as using the online process of recruiting and selecting (Kirchmer, 2011). Online
recruitment and selection help the HR department to find more talented and skilled employees
around the world and employee can select through online which saves time for coming for an
interview.
TIME MANAGEMENT
Time management is an important factor as it helps to complete work in time. For managing time
activities can be considered:
 Identify time which is Available – it is important to know the whole time required for the
work as well it should be realistic.
 Scheduling for essential actions – distribute work in small parts and decide the time for
finishing them.
 Consideration for high-priorities activities – some work is very important, take additional
time for those works for their effectiveness (Kirchmer, 2011).
 Unexpected activity – consider time for unexpected activity. Time should be managed
with consideration of other activities which can interrupt work.
 Analysis – some amount of time should be decided for cross-checking the activities
which are processed in the work.
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT
For maintaining good quality for the project it is necessary to take some measurements which
can provide quality for the project. Also considering legal activities and rules can also count in
quality control management (Holton, 2011). Take guidance of Volkswagen UK can improve the
quality of the project.
COMMUNICATION PLAN
For communication along with the interactions with stakeholders of the Volkswagen, UK
interact with candidates who came for the interviews is also a good way for communication plan.
RISK MANAGEMENT
There is a risk in every work, it is important to assess the risks and make a plan for it. Also
somewhat of risk is attached to the risk project (Holton, 2011). For managing the risk in the
research study following activities can be considered for making the plan:
 Identification of Risk
 Examine the risk
 Prioritize the risk
 Risk treatment
 Review and monitor risk
RESOURCES
Literature reviews, Google scholar, books, articles and the survey questions are the resources for
obtaining data in the research to draw out the effective outcome.
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M1 Comprehensive Project Management Plan, Milestone Schedule and Project
Schedule for Monitoring
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
There is a total of 5 stages or phases of the project management plan which is:
 Project Initiation
 Project Planning
 Project Execution
 Project Monitoring
 Project Closure
Project Initiation – It is the stage in which idea for the project is generated and defines it on a
broad stage. Stakeholder of the company verifies the project and after that important activity
taken into consideration (Charles Jr et al., 2017).
Project Planning – It is the process in which the project outline is decided. Successful planning
is the key to the success of the project.
Project Execution – It is the stage in which planning is turning in to action. In this stage duties
and responsibilities are duly delivered to the respected employees.
Project Monitoring – This process is all about to monitor the project activities. It is important to
monitor the project for an effective outcome (Ihlen and Roper., 2014). Key Performance
Indicator (KPI) is an effective process to check on the project.
Project Closure – It is the End process. The stage shows the completion of the project. In this
stage project’s success and failure can be measured.
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P3 Work Breakdown Structure & Gantt Chart to Give Timeframes and Stages
WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
The work breakdown structure helps to understand the stages and activities of the project.
GANTT CHART
Gantt chart shows the detailed activities of the project along with the time taken with each
activity.
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IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON
HRM OF VOLKSWAGEN
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
LITERATURE
SCOPE
COST
RESOURCES
COMMUNICATION
PLAN
RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
METHODOLOGY
QUALITATIVE
SURVEY
FINDINGS
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATION

INITIATION OF DATA
GATHERING
DEFINING AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES
LITERATURE REVIEWS
EVALUATION OF
SECONDARY METHOD
DATA COLLECTION
METHOD
DATA COLLECTION
ETHICAL AND OTHER ISSUES
LIMITATION OF RESEARCH
REVIEW OF PROJECT
FINAL SUBMISSION OF
PROJECT
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LO2
P4 Research Methods for Achieving Project Goals and Objectives
The main aims and objectives of the research study are to understand the impact and influence of
the globalization on the HRM department of Volkswagen as well as how recruitment and
selection process improved within the organization with the help of globalization (Husebø et al.,
2015). For meeting the aims and objectives Qualitative and Quantitative research method is used
by the researcher.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Qualitative research helps the researcher to understand the deep knowledge of the research topic.
The various researches made in different condition and for different situation through qualitative
research it becomes easy for the learner to understand all the facts and activities of various
situations (Buiga, 2012). Qualitative research helps the researcher to prepare beforehand for
quantitative research to prepare a questionnaire for the survey. For collecting data in qualitative
research Books, Journals of the researcher, news articles, literature reviews, internet blogs etc. is
used. It helps the learner to properly select questions for the research as well as target the area.
With qualitative research, the researcher gets to know the impact of globalization on the HRM
department on the business organization which helps the learner to understand the HRM
department of the Volkswagen UK (Holton, 2011). Qualitative research helps the learner to
understand the effective strategies and techniques for the HRM department of Volkswagen UK
as well as the importance of these strategies.
The Qualitative research shows the importance of HR department of business organization as
most of the work can be replaced by Technologies but Finding talents, selection and recruitment
of the employees can’t be done through technologies as for the HR process business always
needs human employees (Landau, 2013). The importance of recruitment and selection process of
a business organization is very important as having the right person for the organization is very
important. Globalization significantly improves the HRM as it helps the organization to find
talented employees. Also, globalization helps the business organization to recruit and select
employees through online which increase the area of HRM and also people of all over the world
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can apply for the job and by having selection and recruitment process online it saves time and
cost of both business and person (Stone and Deadrick, 2015).
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative research helps to gain practical knowledge through the research as it is a pragmatic
approach which focuses to gain information in the form of questionnaire surveys and interviews.
It helps to draw out the effective outcome as it is directly conducted research by the researcher
(Holton, 2011). In this research, the questionnaire is prepared for the 100 participants to obtain
the views and thoughts of them with respect to the research topic. The participants are which are
selected for the research are stakeholders of the Volkswagen UK through which our employees,
management, customer and the candidates who came for the interview in the company (Buiga,
2012). The reason for choosing these participants are to understand and draw the effective
outcome these participants are best suitable.
The questionnaires prepared for the survey are:
1.) How HRM gets benefit through globalization?
a.) By online recruitment
b.) New Techniques & strategies
c.) effective planning
d.) None
2.) How Effective HRM department of Volkswagen UK?
Very effective
Effective
Average
Not at all
3.) Does globalization help Volkswagen UK and its HRM Department?
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