Questionnaire Strategic HRM

The Strategic Approach to Human Resource Management

 What is the importance of HR Department in your organization and what are the tasks and
responsibilities are being performed by HR department?
 What place have HR department in organogram of your organization?
 What is the current HR strategy/objectives of your organization? What are the key elements that
consider while making HR strategy?
 To what extent, the HR department of your organization is actively participating in overall
strategy formulation, decision making and problem solving?
 What is your opinion about your organization’s HR Department and top management
relationship? Whether the top management keeps involve and consider the opinion of HR
Department while making important strategic decisions?
 Whether input from the lower tier employees of the organization taken while strategy
formulation because they are the people who are there to implement your decisions as well as
they exactly aware of the problems of the organization.
 What are the long term and short term objectives of HR department of your organization? What
challenges do you face in their achievement?
 What is your experience about impact of external environment on the functioning of HR
department of your organization? Explain your measures and sources used for environment
scanning so that better policies could be formulated?
Formulating a Corporate and Human Resource Strategy
 Does top management support you in overall formulation of HR strategy? How much
involvement is there?
 Do you believe that HR Department can help a firm achieve a competitive advantage, if yes then
how?
 Whether the strategy of your HR department is duly synchronized, coordinated and aligned with
organizational strategy? Has there been any conflict between the HR Department with the other
departments in your organization? What was the reason and how do you solve the conflicts?
 Is there any latest technology or software adopted in your organization? if yes, then what is it?
 Does any audit takes place in your HR department? If yes, then please explain the process and
also what the areas that are measured in HR Audit are.
 Are the strategies of your department and organization flexible? Please give example.
Human Resource Planning & Technology
 How you design the jobs, how you forecast the required future skills, and what techniques are
being used to estimate the shortage and surplus of staff.
 What are the key elements you must see while making HR planning?
 Whom do you report to? How the Human Resource Planning is being carried out in your
organization? Please explain steps in detail.
  Have you experienced or experiencing any Human Resource information system? If yes, is it
beneficent for your organization, please explain.
 After how much time you review the overall HR strategy of your organization?
 How and to what extant COVID-19 affected the overall HR Strategy/planning of your
organization? What measures you adopted during this period of time?
 Have you ever use HR matrices to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizations’
employees?
Job Analysis
 How the job analysis is carried out in your organization, what technique you used to collect data
for job analysis? Please explain the entire process?
 Have job analysis been conducted for all the job roles in your organization? If no, then what
technique you use to develop Job Description and Job Specification without Job Analysis? How
often it is carried out?
 Please explain why the Job Analysis is important for your organization in context with usage of
collected data through the job analysis?
 What benefits of job analysis you observed during your stay in this Organization?
 Is Job analysis linked with the organization’s strategy? If yes, please explain the reason as per
your experience?
Recruitment, Selection & Retention

 How do you recruit and select new employees? Explain the entire process of Recruitment and
Selection?
 Is this process of recruitment and selection linked with your organizational strategy? If yes then
how?
 Explain the recruiting methods used in your organization?
 What recruitment sources are used in your organization?
 What prefer your organization: (1) Internal Recruitment (2) External Recruitment?
 How do you retain employees in your organization?
 Is there any test been conducted at the time of Recruitment and Selection? If yes, then what
type to test conducted to candidate?
 How you treat negligent hiring (if any) found.
 Is HR department of your organization work independently during the whole process of
Recruitment and Selection? What constraints can be faced during the said process?
 Is there any involvement of top management in this process? If yes then please tell in what
extent?
 How many types of the workers your organization have?
 Recruitment and Selection in your organizations being carried out through HR Department or
through any Consultant?
Orientation, Training and development

 Do you carry out orientation of your newly selected employees? Explain the whole process with
examples please.
  What is the purpose of training and development in your organization?
 What is the policy of training and development of employees in your organization?
 Do you maintain any training calendar?
 How many types of training you conduct normally?
 How much budget your organization allocate for training and development?
 Do you think training and development improves the performance of the employees? If yes,
then please share examples.
 What are the objectives of training and how do you evaluate it?
 How do you carry out training of employees in your organization? Explain the process with
examples please.
 Why is on the job training important for the development of employees?
 How the trainings given to employees in your organization support the overall organizational
strategy?
 Is training given to any specific department/staff or the whole employees, and after what the
time it is repeated?
Strategies for Effective Performance Appraisal System

 Please explain the objectives of performance appraisal of your organization.

 Explain the performance appraisal process which is there in your organization in detail?
 Give details about this process?
 How is it performed and when?
 Are you applying simple performance appraisal or competency performance appraisal system?
 What is the criteria of evaluation of employees’ end of the year?
 Who is involved in the entire process?
 Does it perform by the supervisors / any HR officials or by any computer software?
 What is the criteria of evaluation of performance appraisal system?
 How you treat with non-performing employees’?
 Do you think performance appraisal improves efficiency and effectiveness of the employees’, if
yes then please share any example.
 Is the performance appraisal process of your organization linked with the overall strategy of
your organization? If yes then how?
Strategic Compensation System

 Explain the compensation policy of your company in detail?

 What rewards, perks and privileges do you give to different types of employees?
 Is there any link of your compensation policy with organizational strategy?
 Do you use any software for preparing salaries?
 How frequently your organization review the compensation policy?
 Is salary structure of your organization compatible with the market?