Interview Questions
1. How is the effectiveness of HR measured in their company?
The effectiveness of the Human Resources is measured through the determination of the strategic value. This means that the company strategically modifies the HR policies in regard to the effectiveness and efficiency of the hiring process with the impact on the overall company strategy in mind.
2. How do they do ROI? What is the methodology used? How well are the numbers accepted by management? How has this helped HR's reputation in the company?
The company calculates Return on Investment through ROI metrics. While it is hard to quantify some HR aspects using numbers such as employee satisfaction, some aspects such as the costs associated with reimbursement and
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How do HR professionals develop the skills to deal with the future business world?
The business world is quickly changing in terms of challenges, interconnectivity, and speed. With this in mind, the HR professionals are crucially deepening their business dynamics knowledge with the aim of enhancing their contributions towards the management of the business so as to provide strategic solutions in the challenging environment.
4. Review the trends with the interviewee and ask them which trends are affecting their company and what is HR's role in helping the company be successful in that environment?
One of the business trends affecting this company is leadership development. As the business world becomes more challenging, it is the prerogative of the HR to provide systems that allow for the workforce to develop and integrate leadership skills. In this company, the HR department is creating essential structures, tools, points of view, and processes that are being used to select and thereby develop the company’s future leaders of whom will be expected to drive the company forward.
5. Does HR sit at the strategic planning table? If so, how did this come about? If not, what is HR's role in helping the company meet its
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How does the HR develop the employees’ skills and enhance their expertise?
Through the construction of effective and efficient training programs, the company has in time been able to develop the skills of the workforce immensely. This has been supported greatly by the HR undertaking strategic organizational changes thus leading to increased productivity, employee satisfaction, and quality.
7. How does the HR department within the company manage employee performance in the challenging business environment?
The HR in the company manages employee performances through the use of HR score-cards. Through the score-cards the HR can quantify the employee input to the overall company turnover. This is further supported by employee engagement initiatives and leadership development.
8. How does the HR department in the company make promotion decisions?
The HR has developed a systemic procedure of determining the formula on promotion. This has allowed the best of the workforce to get promotions thus ensuring that leadership positions are well distributed and managed.
9. How has technology simplified the HR procedures in the
Profitability Net income/sales (profit margin) 3.94% Net income/assets (ROA) 7.31% Net income/shareholder equity (ROE) 24.99% 4.) Asset utilization/ management efficiency Total asset turnover 0.4
I accumulated information through several of sources. The Washington Post published an article on this subject March 2013. To gain further insight on the subject, I searched and found an article published by HR Daily Advisor, created in April
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Human Resource Management Student: Vera Lopez LP1.1: Strategic Plan Paper Human Resource Management strategy must match the organizations goals. Human Resource Management is operated as a company within itself in which policies and activities are established and measured within the mission and strategic objectives of the organization. The scope is to assist with all activities related to staffing and maintaining an effective workforce (Bernardin, & Russell, 2013). One critical area involving Human Resource is organizational design that is critical for an organizations overall strategic plan. Organizational design is defined as “the arrangement of work tasks based on the interaction of people, technology, and the tasks to be performed in the context of the mission, goals, objectives, and strategic plan of the organization” (Bernardin & Russell, 2013, p.11).
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Most closely related to operations, the decisions can determine how staff are needed and what attributes they will need in order to execute their tasks. Adversely, HR management may generate limits to options available to operations. Perhaps the most important part of the transformation process is human labor. HR management ensures workers are correctly suited to their jobs and ensures all tasks are completed within the business. Communication of decisions made by operations on how to produce a product affects decisions made by HR management with regards recruiting, training and termination of employment contracts.
As a result,the goals of a human resource department reflect and support the goals of the rest of the organization. Strategic Human Resource Management is defined as the link between Human Resources policies and practices with overall strategic business objectives of an organization. So,Strategic Human Resource Management has a significant influence on managing employees. Strategic Human Resource Management is based on 3 propositions. They are as follows; The human resources or human capital of an organization play a strategic role in its success and are a major source of competitive advantage.
The human resource management is vital in safeguarding that the people employed by an organization live up to their capabilities. This can be done by creating a strategy plan that aligns with the organizational goals. Their actions are designed to move that plan forward. The HR function should focus on value-adding activities to support the execution of the business strategy and objectives. By implementing the strategic plan organizations achieve results.
Simply having the right capacity in place to match the development of the company may be the biggest risk Wal-Mart faces. Wal-Mart hires antagonistically from more than 100 universities and targets the colleges with Retail Institutes. People have always been the company’s best asset. Their idea at Wal-Mart is to hire the best, provide the best training and to be the greatest place to work. Strategy 7: How does HR align every functional part with service?
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Human Resource Department recruits the potential employees and trains the staffs to engage their commitment in achieving targets. The well-trained and competent work group and team carry out and complete the sales target that is set weekly/ monthly by management that is tailored to generate more revenue. Each
1.4.1 Literature Review HRM practices are a process of engaging, motivating, and maintaining employees to ensure the organizational survival (Schuler and Jackson, 1987). According to (Delery and Doty, 1996) HRM practices are prepared and implemented in a way that human capital plays important role in achieving the goals and objectives of the organization. The appropriate use of HRM practices strongly influence the standard of employer and the degree of employee commitment (Purcell, 2003). HRM practices like, training and development, performance appraisal allow the employees to do better in order to enhance the organizational performance (Snell and Dean, 1992; Pfeffer, 1998).