Strategic Human Resource Management: Report and Analysis for HRM

This report comprehensively analyzes strategic human resource management (SHRM), examining its implementation, importance, and contribution to organizational goals. It explores the role of SHRM in aligning with business strategies, emphasizing human resource planning and the significance of ethical and legal requirements in developing HR policies. The report delves into various aspects, including the impact of organizational structure and culture on HRM, the monitoring of HRM effectiveness, and the analysis of leadership and management theories. It also discusses the Harvard framework of HRM and its components, providing insights into employee retention and the importance of aligning leadership strategies with the organization's mission, vision, and values. The report concludes by evaluating the effectiveness of HRM in different organizational contexts and its impact on competitive industries.

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Executive Summary
The report helps in understanding the implementation of strategic HRM in the organization. The
importance of the SHRM has to be discussed as this will help in analyzing the purpose of the
SHRM activities in the organization. The contribution has to be identified as well in the
organizations. The proper analysis of the business factors helps in analyzing the planning of
HRM in the organizations.
The main aim of the report is to identify the requirements of the HRM in the organization and the
policies of the organization relating to HRM have to be discussed as well. Proper development of
plan relating to HRM has to be discussed as this will help in understanding the impact of the
different management and leadership styles in the entire organizations. The foremostrationale of
the report is to comprehend the impact of the regulatory requirements that includes both legal
and ethical requirements as this will help in understanding the effectiveness of the HRM.
The conclusion will be based on proper analysis of the effectiveness of HRM in the different
organizations and this will help in examining the effectiveness of the organization in the entire
competitive industry. The impact of the regulatory such as ethical and legal requirements of
policies of human resource management has to be properly analyzed as this will help in
understanding the effectiveness of the HRM in different companies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
1. Role of strategic human resource management...........................................................................5
1.1 Nature and importance of strategic management in organization.........................................7
1.2 Role and purpose of activities related to strategic human resource management in
organization.................................................................................................................................9
1.3 Evaluation of relationship of strategic human resource management with other functional
areas...........................................................................................................................................10
2. Human Resource Planning........................................................................................................11
2.1 Different business factors essential for human resource planning......................................12
2.2 Assessing the requirements of human resource management in a given scenario..............13
2.3 Development of Human Resource plan...............................................................................16
3. Role of legal, ethical issue in developing human resources policy...........................................17
3.1 Purpose of Human Resource Policy....................................................................................19
3.2 Impact of regulatory and legal requirements on human resource policies..........................20
3.3 Impact of ethical requirements on Human Resource Management Policies.......................21
4. Planning of effective strategies of human resource management.........................................21
4.1 Impact of organizational Strategy, structure and culture on the management of human
resources....................................................................................................................................22
4.2 Critically monitoring effectiveness of HRM.......................................................................23
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5. Analyzing leadership and management theory..........................................................................23
5.1 Analyze the impact of theories of management and leadership on developmental strategy
of organization...........................................................................................................................24
5.2 Creation of leadership strategy that supports mission, vision, values and objectives of
organization...............................................................................................................................25
5.3 Evaluation of leadership strategy that supports mission, vision, values and objectives of
organization...............................................................................................................................26
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................26
References......................................................................................................................................27
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Introduction
Proper implementation of the strategies related to modern HRM and developing is the
main purpose of the SHRM. There are different organizations that integrate the strategies related
to SHRM with the strategies of their industry as this will help them in achieving the
organizational goals in shared vision. In this report, the importance of it is mentioned. The
rationale of the strategic HR activities has to be properly analyzed as this will help in evaluating
the proper contribution of the HR management practices in achieving the managerial objectives.
The major aim of the report is to analyze the different factors of business that underpins
the planning of HRM in the organization. The requirements of the human resource management
have to be analyzed in a scrupulous situation in the entire organization as this will help in
developing a proper human resource plan for the entire organization. The proper evaluation has
to be done in order to comprehend the contribution of HR planning in meeting directorial
objectives. The majorrationale of the report is to examine policies of HR management in the
organization. The impact of the regulatory requirements is essential in nature as this will help in
analyzing impact of the structure of organization on the HRM of the organization.
The structure of the report will include three sections wherein the policies, importance of
the SHRM are discussed. The HRM plan has to be formed as this will help in analyzing the
different impacts of the regulatory requirements on the policies of the HRM. The proper
examination has to be done in order to understand as well as monitor the effectiveness of the
organization in order to provide proper recommendations to recover efficiency of the
management of it in the association.
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1.Role of strategic human resource management
It is difficult to manage such a large workforce and the organization has to identify
different techniques for gaining the objectives of the organization by focusing on the strategic
HRM1. The SHRM will help in reducing the different negative impacts on the organization as
these can have huge negative impact on the work performed by the employees in the
organization. This has the proper capability to positively affect the performance of the business
as the presentation along with skills of the employees2.
The HR manager of respective company has to properly implement people management
in the organization as this will help them in achieving the long term objectives. The main
purpose of the HR manager of the companies is to retain the employees of the company by
providing proper training and development as this will help in improving the entire business
performance of the company.
There are different features of HRM approach that includes proper polishing as well as
improvising the talent and potential of the individuals who are working in the organization. This
is the duty of the HR manager of the company to improve the quality along with the contentment
level of the employees in the entire organization. The Harvard framework of HRM has to adopt
by different organizations as this comprises of six components that are critical in nature that will
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help the human resource manager in understanding the interests of the stakeholders as well as the
different policies of the HRM as well. In order to retain the skilled employees in the
organization, it is essential for the HR manager in the organizations to implement the appropriate
style of approach that will help in adopting a proper style as to manage the work of the
employees.
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Interest of stakeholders
Community Government
Situational factors
Labor market
Business strategy
Workforce
characteristics
Policies in HRM
Reward system
Work system
Outcomes in
HRM
Competence
Commitment
Long term cost
Well being
Efficiency in
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Figure 1: Harvard Model
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The employees of the respective company who are assets of the company has to be
retained properly as they are skilled as well as talented and the competitors in the market will
attract the skilled employees of GPL by providing them with different offers as well as other
incentives. Therefore, it is the duty of the human resource manager to retain such employees by
valuing their work and their efforts in the works that are performed by them. The human
resource manager has to take proper initiatives in gaining positive impacts on the entire
organization as well as on employees.
1.1 Nature and importance of strategic management in organization
Strategic HRM is the process of implementing, formulating as well as evaluating the
different strategies of business in order to attain the objectives of the organization. Planned
management is the manner wherein the organizations plan in order to deal with different aspects
of the problem, perception of the management. Strategic management is essential in nature in
different organizations in order to retain the employees in the organization and this will help in
achieving the goals of the organization as well.
The strategic management is used in the organization in order to attain the different
organizational objectives by strengthening the relation between the employer and employees in
the organization. It helps in proper identification as well as exploitation of different opportunities
in the organizations. The strategic management will help in providing a proper view on the
problems that is faced by the management of the association. The SHRMof the different
organizations requires understanding the different cross cultural factors that are involved in the
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organization as this is necessary to understand the major issues such as performance
administration as well as the participation of staffs in the organization. There are different
actions that can be taken by the human resource manager of the organizations such as creating
proper value as well as proper focus has to given to the areas wherein proper improvement is
required.
The main motive of the human resource manager is to improve the business by providing
proper focus on the motivational factors that will help in managing the difficult and critical areas
in the HRM of the organizations. The strategic HRM provides proper focus on both the internal
as well as external factors as these will help in gaining competitive advantage.
Figure 2: Strategic Human Resource Management
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1.2 Role and purpose of activities related to strategic human resource management in
organization
There are different organizations in the world that want proper implementation as well as
formulation of the human resource management as this will help the companies in maintaining
the employees in the organization who are skilful in nature3. There are different activities related
to strategic HRM that can be divided as follows:
Organizational objectives as well as strategies
Strategies related to HRM
Human resource management policies and practices 4
These are the different strategies as well as practices that are based on the internal
environment along with the external environment of the organization along with the purpose,
mission as well as actions that are corporate in nature. The main purpose if proper
implementation of the SHRM is to increase the effectiveness of the different people in the
different organizations by providing them proper training and development along with other
approaches that are motivational in nature. The activities that are related to HR management are
utilized in the organizations to conduct right kind of task in a right pattern. Proper formulation of
the strategies related to human resource management is required and is properly based on the
3Renz, David O. The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and management. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
4Kramar, Robin. "Beyond strategic human resource management: is sustainable human resource management the
next approach?." The International Journal of Human Resource Management 25.8 (2014): 1069-1089.
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proper investigation of internal as well as external environment along with the different
purposes5.
The different kinds of communication such as one way, both ways connection as well as
the connection that is executive in nature are the different purpose that is related to the strategic
HRM of the entire organization6.
1.3 Evaluation of relationship of strategic human resource management with other
functional areas
The strategic human resource management has proper relationship with the other
functional areas wherein these work for the welfare of the organization and for the growth of the
entire organization. The strategic management along with industrypolicy work towards the
attainment of the different objectives. The different functional areas of the organizations include
proper research and development, proper marketing and production as well as sales and support
team. The higher officials of the organization assigns the different tasks according to the skills of
the employees as this helps in achieving the long term objectives of the organization. Proper
objectives have to be ascertained as this is necessary in nature as this will help in sustaining in
the competitive market. The health and safety of the individuals is essential factor that has to be
taken care and SHRM includes maternal as well as paternal leave as this will help in managing
proper change in the organization7.
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7Martín Alcázar, Fernando, Pedro Miguel Romero Fernández, and Gonzalo Sánchez Gardey. "Workforce diversity
in strategic human resource management models: A critical review of the literature and implications for future
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The motivation as well as other activities that are related to human resource, it helps the
different organizations in achieving goals with the consideration of the involvement of the
employees8. The staffing is the other consideration of SHRM that helps in providing proper
skilful employees in the organization. The SHRM helps the employees in the organization to
take up different kinds of challenging tasks and this will help in increasing proper level of
confidence among the individuals as well. SHRM has to facilitate proper level of motivation
among the individuals in the organization as this will help in achieving the different essential
objectives of the entire organization.
2. Human Resource Planning
HR Planning is defined as the procedure that helps in identification of the current as well
as future requirements of human resource management for different organization to achieve the
different goals. The proper planning of human resource management helps in serving a link
between strategic plan of the organization as well as human resource management as well9.
research." Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 20.1 (2013): 39-49.
8Peppard, Joe, and John Ward. The strategic management of information systems: Building a digital strategy. John
Wiley & Sons, 2016.
9Rogers, Sean E., et al. "Strategic human resource management of volunteers and the link to hospital patient
satisfaction." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 45.2 (2016): 409-424.
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