HRM 300 Assignment 1: HR Strategic Planning and Practices

This document provides a comprehensive solution for an HRM assignment, addressing key concepts in human resource management. The assignment delves into the evolving role of HR, transitioning from administrative to strategic partnerships, and explores internal and external factors influencing this shift. It examines essential skills for HR professionals, including business acumen, listening, and strategic thinking. The solution further analyzes HR's functions in recruitment, training, and compensation, as well as policies for effective communication and organizational culture, emphasizing diversity and multiculturalism. The assignment also focuses on employee retention strategies, highlighting their importance and associated challenges. The solution incorporates various references to support the arguments and provides practical applications of the discussed concepts.

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Question 1
A
The Human Resource is a very big topic which discusses the administrative HR roles
being swapped out from the strategic partnership roles. The truth is that in the present date the
administrative work of an HR is more than the strategic work in the respective organization they
are working for. Even according to the author West, Iacono & Sha (2019) in the present date HR
officials are shifting from the administrative work to the strategic work as because the
organizations are facing problems related with the support from technologies and talent
management programs. This is the main reason for them to shift from administrative advisor to
strategic advisors.
Internal factors might include the corporate objectives, operational functions and financial
functions. The external factors mainly includes the economic factors, technological factors, legal
factors, social and cultural factors includes the external factors which are involved within the
transition policy.
Skills needed by HR professionals to be effective as strategic business partners are discussed
below:
 Business acumen skills – this will help the human resource department to get an
understanding of the impact of latest economic and financial news of the organization
 Listening skills – According to the author Dwianto, Purnamasari & Rustomo (2019) the
HR should try to listen effectively which shows that they are truly present and attentively
listen to the what they are said and to the things they are asked for in the organization.

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 Questioning skills – Skillfully selecting the proper questions can broaden the hidden
agendas in the business.
 Strategic thinking skills – The strategic thinking skills are important in the present date as
because with this skills they will be able to protect regular time and space in order to
apply the long term picture of the company.
 Data Analytics Skills – the data analytics kills will be helping the HR in order to deal
with various types of data being generated by the individuals in the organization.
B
The role of HR in the current organization is to bring up the capabilities of the people by
improving and developing the human resource capabilities present inside them. This will help the
company to boost the financial performance. Yes evidence has been reflected as because the
organization has been able to retain its old and loyal employees for more than few decades.
Question 2
A
In terms of recruiting the HR department is known for recruiting few of the best employees. The
HR department also takes care in order to provide various types of training and development
activities to build the employees. The HR department provides various compensation strategies
to motivate the employees.
B
Two functional areas of the HR were in the place of Recruitment and election process. The HR
department used to select the candidates effectively so that they are able to meet the business

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criteria. Regarding one example of HR program initiated from the side of the HR department was
the Stress Decreasing program which was initiated for 3 day workshop so that the training can
motivate the employees in order to deal in a right manner with the employees. This therefore
supported the organizational strategy by helping the employees to give their full potential when
dealing with office work.
Question 3
A
Three policies from the HR department which is to be maintained by the employees in regards to
the effective communication process maintained when communicating with senior leaders are :
 Organization’s internet service should be used to communicate in a formal way.
 The employee can send a direct email so that they are granted the permission of having a
contact with the business leaders present in the organization.
 The senior management should try to cascade various types of information which is to be
shared by the employees.
B
An organization’s culture can impact the policies and behavior when related with
diversity and multiculturalism as because if the employees are not respecting and fixing freely
with the other employees working in the organization, they will not be able to work effectively
as a whole. According to the author Dwianto, Purnamasari & Rustomo (2019) diversity helps in
dispelling the negative stereotypes and helps in removing the personal biasness in the business
regarding various types of groups working in the same organization. Thus the employees in the
organization should try to maintain diversity in the company so that the culture of the

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organization is well maintained. The four types of diversity in the organization mainly includes
occupational diversity, personality diversity, trait diversity and values.
Regarding the term multiculturalism it can be said that it is the only way in which the
organization will be dealing with cultural diversity both at the national level and at the
community level. With the help of multiculturalism in the business context the employees in the
company will be assuming that they are working for the social benefit of the humans. It will also
in a way help in increasing diversity through various types of harmonious coexistence of
different culture.
Question 4
A
Employee retention is of much focus from the HR department of any organization as because it
will in a way show that the employees working in the specific organization is provided with huge
amount of motivation from the senior management working in the company. Therefore
according to the author Dwianto, Purnamasari & Rustomo (2019) less employee retention will
create a negative impact on the performance of the company for the long run.
Focusing on the employee retention services is known for adding strategic value to the company
as because it will help the company to get the employees who were working with them for a long
time. The company will not have to recruit new employees and waste money of selection and
development process. This will help the company to maintain the productivity as well as the
performance of the business in the long run.
B

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In order to develop the basic employee retention program of the employees in the organization
are as follows;
 Employee compensation strategies
 Working environment should be good
 Maintaining good relationship with the managers of the company
 Supporting the employees in times of hard work.
Few of the biggest challenges which might be faced are there will be few employees who will
not listen to changes required in order to retain the employees Few will not like the change
management plan imposed.

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