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Human Resources Strategies: Master Course
Human Resources Strategies: Master Course
Human Resources Strategies: Master Course
Master Course
Future business of
HR Strategy
the company
Daily, operational
HR Administration
issues and topics
Simple difficult cases #1
Employee Personnel
Employee Performance
deployment HRIS
survey profiles apraisal
planning
Strategic statements | Example: development
Strategic
management systems
Attitude Institutionalization
Hierarchy
Hire and stability
Institutionalization
& pay Networks
and agility
People-centered
enablement
Attitude of Rules & Strategic management
the founder Culture structures systems
Building an HR strategy
People-related
Company Strategic HR topics
challenges and
Strategy and approaches
critical functions
Decreasing
Purchase Power Digitization
Changing Consumer Preferences Changing consumer segments
Shaping producte Identify and Open long-term Sharing relevant Retaining best
working leverage people‘s development knowledge across and high-potential
conditions potential opportunities the firm employees
low
Demand
small
Talent
Availability
big
high
low Strategic high
Relevance
Critical key and bottleneck functions
low
Bottleneck Function
Big demand (volume) hard
to be filled and replaced
(low availability)
Talent
Availability Key Function
High strategic relevance
Demand
small
high big
low Strategic high
Relevance
Added value in key functions compared to others
Added value
Key function
Mean
Other functions
Mean
Performance
What a key function is – and what not
Diversity
Conformity Value of individuality
Fit with common
standards
Developmental
needs
Appreciation: Traditional and inverted pyramid
Inverted Pyramid
Concept of Man | Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Y
Theory X Theory Y
People have an inherent dislike for The expenditure of physical and mental effort
work and will avoid it whenever in work is as natural as play or rest
possible.
Man will exercise self-direction and self-
People must be coerced, controlled, control in the service of objectives to which
directed, or threatened with he is committed.
punishment in order to get them to
achieve the organizational objectives. The average human being learns not only to
accept but to seek responsibility.
People prefer to be directed, do not
want responsibility, and have little or The capacity to exercise a relatively high
no ambition. degree of imagination, ingenuity, and
creativity in the solution of organizational
People seek security above all else. problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed
in the population.
Source: McGregor, D. (1960). The human Side
of Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Static versus disruptive development
Customer benefits
Disruptive
development
Faster than
expected
Static development
(improvement)
Slower than
expected
Time
Task certainty
low Scope
small
Certainty of
outcomes
project
high
high Certainty low
of process
Thinking and acting in extensive and short cycles
Thinking
Acting
Managers’ and employees’ general knowledge and expertise
Manager as the master being Manager has general view There are experts only. One
superior to employees by any and understanding. of them (temporarily) takes
mean Employees superior in terms over leadership role
of deep understanding
Four options of dominant leadership roles
Flexible
workplace
Flexible
working hours
Flexible
organization
Division versus task dynamic
Supervisor Supervisor
dependent, self-
X small
Concept of man
actualizing Y
Optimization versus
Optimization Disruption
disruption
Partner,
Boss Dominant leadership style Coach,
Enabler
Autonomy and
little much
self-regulation
Division of labour
Division Dynamic
and task dynamics
vertical, lateral,
Consequences and
Boss- customer-
centered commitment centered