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Strategic Resourcing As Key Aspect of Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic Resourcing As Key Aspect of Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic Resourcing As Key Aspect of Strategic Human Resource Management
Resource Management
ENGAGING EMPLOYEESTHROUGH HIGH-INVOLVEMENT WORK
PRACTICES
Introduction
Resourcing Strategy
Resourcing strategy ensures that the organization recruits and retains the individuals
in various job positions. It is comprehensively understood that when the human resources will
be efficient and possess the essential educational qualifications, competencies and abilities,
they will be able to carry out their job duties in a satisfactory manner. The primary objective
of resourcing strategy is to find out the most suitable workforce that is needed by the
organization. It is vital for the human resources to augment their competencies and abilities
from time to time and for this purpose, they need to implement the methods and approaches.
These include, acquiring training by getting enrolled in educational institutions and training
centres, outside the organization, attending training and development programs within the
organization, conducting research and so forth. The primary aim of the resourcing strategy is
to ensure that the organization receives the competitive advantage by employing more
competent individuals. This strategy also seeks in retaining the individuals by making
provision of better opportunities and rewards as compared to others and by developing a
factual organizational culture (Cristian & Stefania, n.d.).
The resourcing strategy needs to take into account the general strategy of the
organization and understand the main directions, in which the organization is proceeding. An
effective resourcing strategy needs to take into account certain aspects. These include,
number of individuals required to meet the business needs, the skills and behaviour required
to support the achievement of business strategies, the impact of organizational restructuring
as a result of decentralization, delayering, mergers, product or market development and the
introduction of new technology and plans for bringing about changes in the culture of the
organization in various aspects. These include, ability to deliver, performance standards,
customer services, teamwork and flexibility that indicates the need for the human resources
with different attitudes, beliefs and personal characteristics. These factors are strongly
influenced by the sort of activity and type of business strategy that is to be put into operation
by the organization (Cristian & Stefania, n.d.).
Human resource management professionals have projected the future needs and
requirements of the organization that need the recruitment of competent employees. A
strategic planning of future workplaces is necessary and in many cases the deficiency brings
multiple negative consequences. These include, high production costs, the stagnation of
production processes and so forth. When planning human resources, it is vital to take into
account certain environmental factors as well (Cristian & Stefania, n.d.). For instance, it is
essential to make provision of elevators to facilitate the movement of those employees, who
may not be ambulatory. Furthermore, it is essential to conduct an analysis of the workplaces
and the present employees. The nature of business and tasks and activities is stated to be
ambiguous. The reason being, when developments need to be brought about within the
organization, one may not be all the time sure that their tasks and functions would lead to
desired outcomes. Therefore, it is vital to prepare oneself well and conduct an analysis of all
the factors which may take place within the course of implementation of tasks and activities.
The resource strategy planning activities like, demand forecasting, supply forecasting,
forecasting requirements, analysing the demand and supply forecast to identify the future
deficits or surpluses; action planning is referred to the formulation of plans to deal with the
forecasts deficits through internal promotions, training and external recruitment, developing
retention and flexibility strategies (Cristian & Stefania, n.d.). It is of utmost significance to
retain well-qualified, competent and skilled individuals within the organization. In order to
retain them, it is essential to generate information in terms of retention strategies. The
retention strategies involves preparation of plans that may help in retaining the workforce
within the organization. Within the working environmental conditions, it is essential to take
into consideration the factors that may develop motivation among the employees and arouse
interest and enthusiasm among them towards the implementation of job duties in an efficient
manner.
The human resources feel comfortable within the working environmental conditions,
when they are provided with equal rights and opportunities and flexibility in the
implementation of job duties. Flexibility strategy plans for an increased flexibility in the use
of human resources to enable the organization to make the best use of competencies and
abilities of human resources and adapt to the changing circumstances. In some cases,
flexibility may take the form of segregating the workforce into a core group and one or more
peripheral groups. Flexibility also implies outsourcing. It is referred to the work done by the
external organizations or individuals. The employees are required to perform number of job
duties within the organization. These include, preparing documents, making decisions,
organizing meetings, workshops and seminars, getting engaged in production and
manufacturing processes, making field visits and so forth. Therefore, it can be stated that in
the implementation of various job duties, the members of the organization need to be flexible
in their approaches. The adoption of flexible approaches also enables the human resources to
remain stress free and carry out their job duties in a well-organized manner.
Resourcing Plans – Resourcing plans are referred to the plans for bringing about up-
gradation of knowledge and competencies among people from within the organization. With
the advent of modernization and globalization, there have been advancements taking place. In
production, service and various types of organizations, it is vital for the members to generate
information in terms of modern, scientific and innovative methods. In the implementation of
their job duties, they need to make use of modern, technical and pioneering methods. For this
purpose, they attend training and development programs within the organizations.
Furthermore, they need to conduct research on regular basis in terms of various methods,
approaches and strategies that can be put into operation on regular basis to up-grade their
skills and abilities. Therefore, it can be stated that resourcing plans need to be implemented
on regular basis and when human resources abide by them, they can render a significant
contribution in the achievement of goals and objectives.
Retention Plans – Retention plans are the plans that have the main objective of
retaining individuals within the organization. When the employees are skilled, diligent,
moral, truthful and regular in their performance, the employers aim to devise methods and
strategies to retain them even for long-term, which can be more than five years or as
permanent employees. Hence, in order to retain employees, it is vital to generate awareness in
terms of methods and approaches. There are various factors that need to be taken into
consideration. These include, creating amiable and pleasant working environmental
conditions, providing infrastructure and civic amenities, providing technologies and materials
for effective job performance, salary and incentives, benefits and rewards, counselling and
guidance facilities, grievance redresser procedures, promoting effective communication,
assistance in enhancing one’s career prospects and job rotation. When these factors are taken
into consideration appropriately, the workforce not feel motivated towards the performance
of job duties, but they are able to get retained as well.
Performance Evaluation
Grading Method – Grading method is not prevalent to a major extent in the present
existence. In this method, the workforce are given a certain task. After they have completed
the task, their supervisors evaluate their performance by giving them grades. Good grades
motivate them to do even better. On the other hand, when the grades are low, it is vital for the
workforce to bring about improvements. Hence, it can be stated that grading method has
proven to be effectual and worthwhile. This method has been replaced by modern and
innovative methods. But grading method has played an important part in making provision of
promotional opportunities and increase in salaries and reimbursements. In this context,
experience matters more as compared to educational qualifications, competencies and
abilities. One of the major limitations of this method is absence of incentives. Complacency
is set as the salary increment and promotions are given irrespective of performance.
Comparative Standard or Multi-Person Comparison Method – This method compares
an employee relative to others. In the individual ranking, the supervisor lists the employees
from the highest to the lowest levels. The difference between the job performances of two
employees, who are in top positions is assumed equivalent to the performance of the
employees, who are in low positions. In the group rank ordering, the supervisor places the
employees in a particular classification such as, top one-fifth and second one-fifth. If the
supervisor heads the ten employees under his supervision, only two could be included in the
top fifth and two will be assigned the bottom fifth. In paired comparison method, supervisor
compares each employee with every other employee in the group and rates each as either
superior or subordinate. After all the comparisons have been made, each employee is
assigned ranking based on the scores, he or she receives.
Critical Incidents Method – In the critical incidents method, the attention of the
supervisor is focused on specific or critical behaviour that is vital for performing one’s job
duties successfully. The behaviour is termed as negative, when the employees are leaving the
machines running, while unattended. On the other hand, behaviour is termed as positive,
when employees are taking adequate precautions. Therefore, it is vital for the members to be
aware of safety and precautions that need to be taken, particularly when employed in
hazardous occupations. In this method, major emphasis is put on whether employees are
taking care of their health care and implementing adequate safety measures. It is vital for
employees to take care of their health care and well-being in order to attain the desired
outcomes.
Rating Scale Method – In this method, the main aspects that have been taken into
consideration are set of job performance factors such as, job knowledge, work quality, and
co-operation that the supervisor expects to rate the employee performance, making use of the
incremental scale. The Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS) is the combination of
elements of the critical incident and graphic rating scale approaches. The supervisor rates the
employees in accordance to the items on the numerical scale. Behavioural Observation Scale
(BOS) is frequency rating of the critical incidents that the worker has performed. This
method has been primarily used to assess the performance of the employees. In the mixed
standard rating scale, the different job dimensions of behaviour are rated as poor, average and
good.
Management by Objectives – The concept of ‘Management by Objectives’ was
initiated by Peter Drucker in 1961. In this method, the employees and superiors work in
collaboration and integration with each other to identify the common goals. The former is
expected to achieve for considering the criterion for the measurement of performance and
making decisions in terms of course of action to be followed. The essence of MBO is
participative goal setting, making selection of the course of action and decision making. The
important part of MBO is measurement and comparison of the actual performance of the
employees with the standards set. Ideally, the employees themselves get involved with setting
of the goals and making selection of the course of action. This method aligns the objectives
with the quantitative performance measures, such as, sales, profits and zero-defect units
produced.
Peer-Comparison Ratings Method – This method is typically used to rate the peers in
the organization. In this case, the superiors render a significant contribution in rating. In this
case, the entire team is considered while rating. In zero-sum game rating, the changes that
takes place for the participants adds up to zero. In nonzero-sum game rating, the appraisal is
based on the assumption that the workforce have the potential to improve, gain more
efficiency, produce more, augment proficiency and carry out things in a better way as
compared to the past. This method has certain limitations, such as, whether a single number
percentile or decile reflects the important realities. An organization is usually trusted by the
employees to make fair and competent judgments and appraisals. However, it is only when
the organization attempts to emphasize how all the human resources are rank ordered that its
judgement is challenged.
Conclusion
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