BUSS 3038 Strategic HR Management: Take Solutions Implementation

This report provides an analysis of HR strategy implementation at Take Solutions Ltd, a company headquartered in Chennai, India, offering domain-intensive services in supply chain management and life sciences. The report identifies issues related to language barriers, employee rights, race, and nationality. It utilizes STEEPLED analysis to reveal external factors affecting the business, including technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, and demographic trends. The analysis identifies opportunities such as growth in biopharmaceutical products and India's potential as an outsourcing hub, as well as threats like wage inflation and increased competition. The report evaluates Take Solutions Ltd's business strategy, focusing on best practices in sales, distribution, and supply chain processes, and identifies strengths in knowledge transfer, organizational effectiveness, and consumer service, along with weaknesses in optimizing eClinical services. Proposed HR strategies are discussed to address these weaknesses and capitalize on opportunities, including improvements in internal vertical and horizontal fit, recruitment of IT and supply chain management personnel, and diversity recruitment. The report concludes by recommending new HR policies and practices to improve pay performance, knowledge management, and overall employee learning and experience. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
STEEPLED analysis..................................................................................................................2
Opportunities and threats...........................................................................................................3
Business strategy........................................................................................................................4
Strengths and weaknesses..........................................................................................................5
HR strategy.................................................................................................................................6
HR policies and practices...........................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References................................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Take solutions Ltd is an organization that has it headquarter in Chennai, India which
offers certain domain-intensive services in the areas of supply chain management along with
life sciences. The company is well established in the international market with increased
existence in Europe, Asia as well as in North and South America (Take Solutions.com 2018).
The objective of the paper is to analyze certain issues faced by the company related with
language barriers, employee rights, race and nationality. It will also reveal the suitable HR
policies that can be practiced by the organization in addressing its threats and weaknesses
identified through STEEPLED analysis.
STEEPLED analysis
STEEPLED analysis is carried out for Take Solutions Ltd that will reveal the external
factors affecting the business of the company that will facilitate in developing effective HR
strategies.
Technological Trend- This evidenced offering opportunity regarding technological
innovation in manufacturing of medicinal drug (Angrave et al. 2016).
Economic Trend- These aspects are deemed to have wide impact on the organization over
the future years.
Environmental Trends- This trend focuses on the fact that conservation of environment has
attained increased prominence over the years because of disruption of environmental balance
that turned out to be life threatening (Cania, 2014).
Political- This includes considering the government rules and regulations that is taken
forward for provided work environment but the political structure in the industry has been
stable (Chadwick, Super and Kwon 2015).

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Legal Issues- These factors are associated with the organization’s compliance that is
associated with health and safety concerns, Narcotic act along with IPR. From analysis of the
legal issues it has also been gathered that certain new acts of the government have supported
the growth of Take Solutions Ltd such as IT Act 2000.
Demographic Trends- It is evidenced that local population in Chennai has attained increased
youth population dealing with unemployment and they belong to age group of 15 to 64. This
huge fraction of unemployed people in the surrounding region makes it likely to attain a huge
candidate pool for selection and recruitment.
Opportunities and threats
The business growth opportunities that are available to the Take Solutions Ltd in
improving its HR processes and employee relations in the company are explained below:
The current years have evidenced an increased growth along with supply in the bio-
pharmaceutical products (Shin and Konrad 2017). India has also been identified as a potential
outsourcing hub in international forum that is owing to its decreased cost skilled labor. A
constant growth in the automation of process offers an opportunity for Take Solutions to
enhance their market ensures the knowledge consultation.
Certain threats that are faced by Take Solutions Ltd in managing its human resource
for attaining strategic competitive advantages are explained below:
The company is observed to face adverse impacts of wage inflation that poses treat to
the financial management. Increased threat of competition is faced by the company because
of new foreign entrants those are well equipped with modern technology-based products
(Slocum, Lei and Buller 2014).

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Business strategy
Business strategy analysis facilitates in evaluating the ways in which Take Solutions
Ltd intends to deal with all its identified threats and opportunities (Shin and Konrad 2017).
Take Solutions Ltd has an effective business strategy statement which ensures that “best
practices” are followed all through its sales, distribution and supply chain process. The
rationale of this proposed business strategy is to develop a new product line in order to
address its international business needs. The proposed business strategy will improve
environmental fit through developing skills for dealing with projects which come within an
international context along with preparing to respond. Attracting and retaining talent is also
considered by the company in attaining organizational change and dealing with issues that is
faced by the company in its international expansion (Palinkas et al. 2015).
Through developing this business strategy, the company has been able to identify the
strengths and weaknesses of its organization’s people management abilities. The company
has also has identified that it attains strengths in maintaining effective knowledge transfer
among employees, organizational effectiveness, attained enhanced consumer service, legal
compliance, occupational safety and health along with offering equal opportunities. Take
Solutions Ltd also has developed effective business strategies that are focused on enhancing
integrity and reputation of the company along with focusing on approach of cost containment
and enhancing expense control. The company has also revealed that it has competitive
strength in its a diversified portfolio of offerings that can offer solutions to address demands
of consumers focused on approach to large along with mid-market consumer segment (Pak
and Kim 2018).
Take Solutions has also identified weaknesses in maintaining its effective business
capability of optimizing its eClinical services along with developing a management platform

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that can offer comprehensive trial oversight which further facilitates rapid business decision
making.
Moreover, the proposed business strategy is deemed to be attainable through existing
people management arrangements available with Take Solutions Ltd. Though employing its
skilled workforce the company also focuses on strengthening the clinical practice which
might contribute to the overall revenue. Take Solutions Ltd is also focused on maintaining
competitive improvement that focuses on decreasing defect rates and increasing quality
(Piening, Baluch and Ridder 2014). The company is also keeping track along with reducing
the hidden wasted time within manufacturing facilities along with speeding up the automated
procedure of the supply chain.
Strengths and weaknesses
Take Solutions Ltd has several effective business strengths that enhance its competitive
advantages and these are elaborated under:
This company is positioned to be a successful company that has implemented a business
model a long time before Life Science Company initiated its business in India. By
implementing cutting-edge technology, the company was able to establish exceptional
alliance with leading data aggregation expansion of its strategic partnerships with low cost
richer functionalities (Slocum, Lei and Buller 2014).
Certain weaknesses of the company that needs to be addressed are explained below:
Take Solutions are making attempts to increase its international reach and is intended to
expand its business in European and North American market and they do not have enough
talent that can support its expansion strategy (Slocum, Lei and Buller 2014). India being a
developing country the companies those have business of biomedical services and products
face adverse impacts of halo effects of having a weak infrastructure.

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HR strategy
In case of Take Solutions Ltd, it is gathered that at a global level certain issues which
impacts the company’s HR solutions encompass the technological advancement along with
the global economic conditions (Jackson, Schuler and Jiang 2014). At the national level, such
HR issues are deemed to be taken place from legal, political, economic, cultural and
demographic circumstances that have impact on HR practices of the company (Sikora and
Ferris 2014). To deal with the threats faced by Take Solutions Ltd in managing its human
resources, the company has considered developing proposed HR strategies to deal with its
weaknesses and attain competitive advantages through capitalizing on its opportunities that
can ensure better external fit.
The proposed HR strategy of the company is deemed to make certain improvements in
the internal vertical fit. The company will consider searching for new manners in order to
attract new set of candidates (Kaufman 2015). For instance, the company requires recruiting
personnel with relevant IT knowledge along with supply chain management background in
order to plan and execute certain collaborative improvements in its supply chain process.
The proposed HR strategy is deemed to lead to improvements in internal horizontal fit. At
a global level, the company must consider analyzing the information gathered from the
business development team and considering the same to must develop an idea regarding the
type of skills that must be recruited and develop suitable recruitment ad selection plan
(Ostroff and Bowen 2016). The human resource practice that is proposed is deemed to be best
internal horizontal fit. This is for the reason that the HR strategies are deemed to include
employment security schemes, staff hiring, manageable teams along with better
compensation structures and development of wide range of training programs. In this high
commitment model, it is important that the employees towards attaining common objective of
the organization. Moreover, the proposed HR strategy is focused on selecting employees

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based on different criteria and recruiting them based on cultural attitude and fit, rather than
just skills that can easily be learnt by employees during the training process.
The HR strategies proposed by the company will facilitate in attaining proposed business
strategy. For instance, the company has also focused in organizing sufficient and trained
employees to improve consumer service results by following an ongoing support process.
Take Solutions Ltd must also consider strengthening diversity recruitment, meeting the
demand of new knowledge, abilities and skills. In this strategy the company must ensure that
women and minority groups must have certain equal access (Paauwe and Boon 2018).
The proposed HR strategy is deemed to result in improvements within the internal
horizontal fit of the company. This is possible as Take Solutions Ltd must consider carrying
out a plan for offering suitable training and development of employees that can further assist
the company in its several change efforts. HR strategy of the organization must include fair
treatment of employees, honoring of agreements along with decreasing employee turnover
rate. HR policies of the organization must also focus on introducing a system that can reflect
the manner in which the business wants to treat its consumers through treating their
employees in the similar manner. The new HR policy must also consider developing a
principle those employees are being developed and supported as the employees those feel
respected at work can be able to offer best services to the consumers.
The internal HR strategy has facilitated Take Solutions Ltd in ensuring its internal
horizontal fit. This is ensured as the company will develop effective strategies to analyze the
ways in which employees are treated in the manner that it will require an extensive training
system. Moreover, the policies related with recruitment, selection and retention can facilitate
in recognizing the prospective employees for the job role along with their behaviors once
they were employed in that position. In horizontal strategy alignment the company will make

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sure that its proposed HR strategy of employee brand management that addresses business
strategy that is developing a program of steadiness in internal and external candidate’s
recruitment along with developing special area of expertise.
HR policies and practices
New HR policies and practices must be developed and implemented by Take
Solutions Ltd that can facilitate the company in dealing with its human resource management
based issues and these are explained below:
The HR policies of the company must ensure developing elements of pay performance,
management, career development along with rewards that will be consistent and linked
(Ulrich and Dulebohn 2015). HR policies of the organization must also focus on introducing
a system that can reflect the manner in which the business wants to treat its consumers
through treating their employees in the similar manner. The new HR policy must also
consider developing a principle those employees are being developed and supported as the
employees those feel respected at work can be able to offer best services to the consumers
(Slocum, Lei and Buller 2014). Knowledge management practices must also be improved in
the HR policies of the company in a way that it can create, acquire, capture, share and use
knowledge in improving overall employee learning and experience.
Conclusion
The objective of the paper was to analyze certain issues faced by the company related
with language barriers, employee rights, race and nationality. It was gathered from the paper
that The Company is observed to face adverse impacts of wage inflation that poses treat to
the financial management. Moreover, it is also revealed that the market in which Take
Solutions Ltd operates evidenced high rates of youth unemployment positions within a
surplus of available labor from which recruitment can be done. The company requires

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recruiting personnel with relevant IT knowledge along with supply chain management
background in order to plan and execute certain collaborative improvements in its supply
chain process.

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Appendices
STEEPLED Analysis
Technological Trend With evolution of semantic web services and
SOA, the solution abides by the limitations of
conventional enterprises through offering data
convergence along with intelligent data
reutilization concepts.
Economic Trend Certain factors such as increasing pay scale,
competition, contracts availability along with
their fees, currency fluctuations, real estate prices
along with recession
Environmental Trends Stakeholders includes the government along with
legislative have considered the issue of pollution
to be very seriously through employing actions
that was generating pressure on business
developing certain environment friendly
technique. Companies such as Take Solutions Ltd
are centered on decreasing energy utilization,
water consumption, carbon footprints along with
taking certain environment friendly strategies.
Political Certain competitive regulations, low related to
consumer protection along with terrorist attacks
greatly impact on the organizational workings.
Moreover, stability within governmental and
political practices facilitate Take Solutions to
produce drugs along with controlling their sales
distribution.

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Legal Issues Income Tax along with Indian Copyright Act as
well as Anto Monopoly Act. Such laws and acts
have attained increased growth of the
organization’s IT industry that has facilitated the
firm to attain advantages from the implications of
such law and attain growth internationally.
Demographic Trends Take Solution Ltd offers services to bio-
pharmaceutical companies and is greatly
involved in production of drugs. This kind of
drug intake basically relies on the gender, age
along with illness of the demography.
Strengths Weaknesses
 The organizations has a skilled base
English speaking labor force that
have better knowledge regarding
manufacturing process on modern
technological devices.
 Despite of having technological advantages
the company lacks international marketing
skills because of which its business strategies
are not strategically implemented.
Opportunities Threats
 To enter the new global markets
 The demand for high quality
diagnostic service have also increased
in a considerable manner
 Despite of having technological advantages
the company lacks international marketing
skills because of which its business strategies
are not strategically implemented.

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 The market in which Take Solutions
Ltd operates evidenced high rates of
youth unemployment positions within
a surplus of available labor from
which recruitment can be done
(Piening, Baluch and Ridder 2014). In
addition, it is also observed that
Indian population having skills in
engineering along with Indian
education system focuses on the
science and mathematics subjects.
This makes them able to understand
Pharma organizations requirements.