BUSN2038 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Society For Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, Swot Analysis
27 Nov 2018
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Changing roles of hr: historically: line manager"s responsibility: a person with direct managerial responsibility for a particular employee, 1970/80"s: hr centralised, late 1980"s: hr decentralised. Roles of hr manager: refer to figure 1. 3 chapter 1. Strategic partner/contributor: translate business strategy into action, part of tm & Agent for change and cultural transformation: catalyst for change. Week 2 lecture objectives: define what is meant by strategic hrm, shrm [lo1. 8, define concepts associated with shrm [lo1. 7/1. 9, examine internal & external environmental influences on shrm [1. 9 cont] Strategic hrm: the process of linking hr practices to strategic goals/strategy. They have done this for many reasons: to reduce costs, improve quality e. g. robots don"t take sick leave etc. Defines the direction in which an organisation intends to move & establishes the framework for action through which it intends to get there. Strategic management [lo9] constitutes a swot analysis.
