Human Resource Management Assignment for MBA Students

This assignment is a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, focusing on Amazon. It begins with an examination of entry-level positions within the company, including Sales Executive, Marketing Executive, Sales Associate, and Recruitment Executive, highlighting their roles and responsibilities. The assignment then delves into the importance of job analysis, job descriptions, and job specifications, explaining how these elements contribute to effective HRM. The second part of the assignment explores the role of human capital in relation to the five forces of HRM, competitiveness, strategy formulation, and human resource competencies, again using Amazon as a case study. It discusses how human capital, encompassing knowledge, creativity, training, and decision-making, contributes to Amazon's competitive advantage and how HR strategies are crucial in achieving the organization's objectives. The assignment also covers the human resource competency model, emphasizing the importance of communication, relationship management, ethical practices, HR expertise, business acumen, and global effectiveness. The assignment demonstrates the significance of HRM in the success of a large organization like Amazon.

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Table of Contents
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Assignment 2...................................................................................................................................3
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Assignment 1
Identifying the entry level positions of the employees of the chosen business organization
The company that is chosen is Amazon.
The entry level positions that are available in this organization are as follows: -
 Sales Executive: The job role of this designation includes penetration of all the aimed
accounts and hence originating up selling opportunities for company’s products as well
as services. Providing demonstration of the products and performing the sales activities
are the major job role of the organization (Sparrow, Brewster and Chung 2016).
 Marketing Executive: Perform promotional activities for the products that will be
launching. Providing proper advertisement of the products and services that are being
newly launched.
 Sales Associate: The main prospect of this job role is to have a vivid understanding of
the products and hence wise make the clients understand regarding the characteristics of
the products and convince them purchase the product (Stewart and Brown 2019).
 Recruitment Executive: The main job role of the recruitment executive is to complete the
life cycle of the recruitment process. Hence wise choosing the best talent present and
hiring them will be one of the major job role of the Recruitment executive (Brewster et
al, 2016). Understanding client requirement and hence wise hiring will also be a major
issue.
Importance of job analysis and nature of job description together with job specification

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Performing job analysis requires collecting and recording of data that are directly aligned
with the job. This ensures that proper assessment skills and perform proper duties that will be
enhancing the job role. The main aspect that will be considered is that proper determination of
the worth of the chosen job can be made. This aspect also helps in proper understanding of the
viability of the job with the education one has received. Proper job analysis also helps from
avoiding getting into incorrect job role which will be neither demeaning the degree nor be higher
than the deserved prospect.
The importance of job description will be providing a p roper understanding of the duties
of the candidates. This will help in proper assessing of the responsibility of each and every
employee. Understanding the legal aspect of the company also gets benefitted with proper job
description (Noe et al, 2015). Proper job description also helps in creation of the goals for job
advancements. Creating boundaries as per the responsibilities that are to be followed by the
employees of the organization is also another reason that will be enhancing the functional
process of employees.
Job specification is performed as per the qualification of the individuals. Educational
certification is one of the major aspect that is considered as a major parameter that will be
affecting the selection of the job specification by the HR. skills and knowledge that the aspirant
possesses is also a factor that helps in bettering the selection of the job specification. Personality
and traits of an individual also plays an important role in proper job specification.
Assignment 2
Organization chosen: Amazon
Human Capital role played in 5 forces of HRM

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The 5 forces that are present in the functioning process of Amazon includes the likes of
exponential technology change, social organization reconfiguration, a truly connected world, all
inclusive global talent market and Human machine collaboration. Human capital will be playing
an important role in execution of this tasks that are to be performed. With the implementation of
creativity and proper training to the HRs of the organization, these job role can be fulfilled.
Role of Human Capital in Competitiveness in Amazon
A proper blend of knowledge, creativity, training and decision making helps in gaining a
competitive edge over the other business organizations. In case of Amazon, it is ensured that the
employees while getting recruited are tested and hence wise employees with proper knowledge
on the subject gets hired (Bratton and Gold 2017). After hiring proper training is provided and
hence wise creativity of the employee increases. With proper experience in the company it is
expected that the decision making of the employee will be getting better as well. Hence wise it
can be stated that with implementation of human capital in an efficient manner, better accuracy
in business management will be increasing. This increase in efficiency in business management
will be resulting gaining competitive edge over the other competitors.
HR needs in strategy formulation
Strategic HR management is considered as an effective application use by an
organization, Amazon in this case for accomplishing the objective and decided strategies.
Realizing and achieving of long term goal has been the major prospect of Amazon. HR have
been acting important in enhancement of the economic stature of the organization (Cascio 2015).
This is performed by proper planning and hence wise better assessing of the situation is made.
With proper analysis of the situation, strategy development gets easier. Analyzing the market

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scenario also help in proper formulation of strategy. With the help of the data collected the main
benefit that will be enjoyed includes the fact that objective development gets easier and hence
wise formulation of strategy can be made. With the help of proper analysis of the human capital
that can be usurped, strategies are developed. These are the sections that are benefitted with the
proper functioning of the HR department.
Human Resource Competency
Human Capital plays an important role in the human resource competency model. There
are major steps of a human resource competency model. The 7 stages are namely communication
in between the employees of the organization, having a proper relationship management in
between the employees, performing ethical practices, HR expertise, performing efficient
business acumen, performing critical evaluation of the business scenario of CWB (Noe et al,
2017). Understanding the global and cultural effectiveness and hence wise take proper steps.
Implement proper leadership strategies and function in a proper manner. Provide proper
consultation and training to the employees also act important in this case. Human capital is a
complete blend of knowledge, training, decision making, creativity and wisdom. All these
qualities are required for having a successful HR competency in Amazon.

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References
Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Brewster, C., Vernon, G., Sparrow, P. and Houldsworth, E., 2016. International human resource
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Cascio, W.F., 2015. Managing human resources. McGraw-Hill.
Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M., 2015. Human resources
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Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gerhart, B. and Wright, P.M., 2017. Human resource management:
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Sparrow, P., Brewster, C. and Chung, C., 2016. Globalizing human resource management.
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Stewart, G.L. and Brown, K.G., 2019. Human resource management. Wiley.