Case 9;
The Challenges for the HR department;
The biggest challenges the HR department faces can be put
into two groups; Environmental challenges and organizational challenges.
Quick change is biggest challenge. This means that the
environment, in which the company operates, changes quickly. This affects
almost all industries and can cause a large amount of stress for the employees
which can, in extreme cases, even lead to homicide and suicide at work. Also,
the Bureaou of Labor statistics reported that 50% if the Americans working at
home say that they are not being compensated for that time. This is not
happening only in USA but also in Asia. As an example, employee of Foxconn in
China who jumped to his death and employee of Dentsun in Japan who commited
suicide It was found out that employee of Dentsun was doing over 100 hours’
extra work every month leading her to her death. (Gomez, Balkin & Cardy 2016)
The all
mighty Internet is yet another challenge for HR department, because there is no
boundaries there and it brings information about everything to everyone in a
matter of seconds. This means that each customer can not only check the reviews
of the products, but also compare the prices as well. And if the company do
something unethical, like when Zara let child refugees in Turkey work in their
factories (BBC 2016), the whole world can know about in a matter of seconds.
Workforce
diversity is yet another big challenge. How can the company arrange it so that
all cultures get along with each other, so that no one is discriminated and
that the company does not have to face a discrimination lawsuits? The
Globalization, which is also a challenge, may increase the workforce diversity
and thereby the problems.
The
organizational challenges are often a by-product from the environmental
challenfes. Those are for example downsizing of the company, decentraöization,
technology, data security and outsourcing, which goes hand in hand with
globalization. Challenges can also be seen from an individual perspective. How
can the HR-Department find the right people? How can they be enpowered and how
can their productivity be increase? That’s why every company should create and
implement a HR strategy.
The benefit
of HR-strategy when the company have put some effort into it;
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Identify gaps between current situation and
future visions
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Encourage proactive behaviour
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Identify HR constraints and opportunities
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Clearly communicate company goals
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Comply with the 10 principles of the UN Global
Impact (UN 2017)
Creating such a strategy is no easy task either. How can
company make sure that they maintain the competitive advantage they may have
due to their unique strategy? How can strategy manage with the environment= we
see that creating the is not easy at all.
As a ground rule, the strategy should fit with the
environment, the organizational strategies, the organizational characteristics,
and the organizational capabilities. If the strategy fits with all og these,
then it should improve the company’s performance by many folds.
Sources:
Gomez, Balkin & Cardy 2016, 23-63. Managing Human
Resources, 8 th edition, Pearson.
UN 2017, 4. Global Impact 2017 Toolbox.
URL: https://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/about_the_gc/UNGC-2017-
toolbox.pdf
Accessed on the 07.05.2017
BBC 2016, 1-2. Child refugees in Turkey making clothes for
UK shops.
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