Alignment of HRM and Business Strategies
- Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy.
An organization runs on the vision and mission of its authors. Habitually, the central centre of most organizations is to provide a decent and increase benefit. Even though HR is essential, I would like to argue that business methodology is responsible for starting things out. Due to that reason, this section will explain the way HR needs to understand and focus fast on the organization’s business technique, particularly when settling on the part of its choices. The business procedure should be allowed to create a highway for achievement. HR should therefore remember and be prepared for the business methodologies of the organization, when leading the main parts of its choices. I have therefore decided to audit Ford Motor Company (Ford Motor Company, 2017). In the audit of Ford’s site, the company provides the idea that the preparation of business and HR is on the main agenda of their reasoning. The site consequently explains that the HR department, intentionally groups together with procedures thus analysing the needs of salaried agents and convey preparations which adjusts to the objectives of the business. The company also encourages the use of Ford’s kin cycle plan. This announcement is therefore an instantaneous reaction to guaranteeing that both the procedures and objectives are equal.
- Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department.
Ford Motor Company has dissimilar responsibilities which are listed under their description. The main responsibilities include the following: corporate travel, clinical operations, global security and fire, compensation and benefits, occupational health and safety, learning and development, HR business operations, and finally, HR labour operations and affairs. These functions are all registered in the HR department’s ‘what we do’ section (Ulrich, 2012). On the other hand, there are also two other positions which are listed under the HR, namely: Occupational Health Nurse and Pension Analyst. In addition, they fall under the HR department as far the functions are concerned. The responsibilities of the health nurse include the following.
Processing clinical records
Processing short term medical absences
Conducting medical examinations
Conducting fitness-for-duty
Processing RTW from medical absence
Conducting medical surveillance
Audiometric testing
Completing examinations
Scheduling appointments for examinations
Testing the respirator fit
On the other hand, the Pension Analyst has the following responsibilities:
Performing benefit calculations
Leading complex projects
Working closely with retirement associates in order to reach timely resolutions of participant issues.
- Determine which HR job positions you would prefer and explain why.
The job position which I would prefer at Ford Motor Company would be Labour relations. This is an enterprise between the management of the company and the employees’ legal support (Ulrich, 2012). The main reason as to why I prefer this job position is consequently because of its job duties, which are flexible, hence making it easier for me to work at ease, and conveniently. The duties include the following: supporting the general management in development sectors, improving and maintaining employee relationships, through bettering the communication systems in the company, processing the complaints or disputes and also construing and conveying the guidelines of the company, This job position is basically concerned with the prevention and resolution of problems which involve employees, hence affecting their work output.
In sum, I enjoy this job position, because it allows one to bring the company into order, through dealing with the issues which affect the performance of the employees (Ulrich, 2012). In addition, it makes it easier for the employees to feel free and work at ease, because their issues at work will be dealt with. Labour relations therefore allows the management of the company to not only operate well, but it also provides the management of the company with new ways of avoiding instances of affecting the work output of the employees. In so doing, the company operates smoothly, and the employees feel free while at work, without any form of fear.
- Analyze how the selected company can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages.
Human resource strategies are supposed to impact the value of the employees in an organization, since employees are the most valuable resource which a company can have (Ulrich, 2012). Ford can therefore develop several recruiting programs, which may include workshops and job fairs, and this can only be aided by strategic planning. Similarly, the company may also set up seminars and information conference at learning institutions, aimed at recruiting students and alumni. Business can also find success through presenting small encouragements to existing working staff for referring colleges, family and friends.
- Propose three (3) ways that the company can increase diversity.
The company can increase diversity, through the following ways:
- Ensuring managers throughout the company value and embrace diversity, through the decisions or the actions which they make.
- Encouraging diversity in the company, through seminars, and also providing ways of coping with the challenges which come with diversity (Ulrich, 2012).
- Creating an organizational culture which supports diversity and inclusivity.
These three proposals will not only allow the company to increase diversity, but they will also enable the company to deal with issues arising from diversity, hence enabling the management of the company to work at ease. In addition, they will also enable the company to focus on other factors, due to inclusivity.
Reference
Ford Motor Company. (2017). Ford Go Further. Retrieved from: http://corporate.ford.com/careers/departments.html?&ccode=US
Ulrich, D. (2012). HR from the outside in: The next era of human resources transformation. New York: McGraw-Hill.
