Human Resource Strategies

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Human Resource Strategies

• Corporate objectives
• HR objectives
• Functional objectives

Competitive Organisational Structures
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Competitive Organisational Structures

• Factors determining choice of organisational
  structure
• Amplification?
• Candidates should be aware of the issues involved
  with implementing and operating each of these
  approaches
• Adapting organisational structures to improve
  competitiveness
• Amplification!
• Centralisation and decentralisation
• Delayering
• Flexible workforce
• Core and peripheral workers
• Outsourcing
• Home working

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Organisational Structures

• Large organisations
• PLCs
• Multinational
• Multifunctional
• Complex
• Competitive

• Hierarchical
• Matrix
• Informal

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Factors determining choice of organisational
structure

• Objectives
• Nature of firm
• Type of workers
• Size
• Market conditions
• Culture (BUSS4 topic)
• Leadership style (BUSS4 topic)
• 20th Century developments

Is Flatter Better? Delayering the Management
Hierarchy
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Adapting organisational structure to improve
competitiveness

• Organisational structure
• BUS2 June 06 Outline two possible reasons why
  Billy considered a matrix structure appropriate
  for the management of the project team. (6 marks)
• Centralisation v decentralisation
• BUSS2 Specimen paper Discuss the benefits and
  problems of introducing a policy of
  decentralisation within Uni fashions. (15 marks)
• Delayering
• BUS2 Jun 07 A key element of Hannahs strategy
  was to change Kikis existing organisational
  design by delayering and decentralising. Discuss
  the arguments for and against the changes in
  Kikis organisational structure that Hannah
  implemented. (15 marks)
• Flexibility
• Core and peripheral workers
• Outsourcing
• Home working
• BUS4 Jan 08 Discuss the likely human resource
  management consequences for Hifonics Ltd of
  encouraging head office staff to work from home
  (telework). (10 marks)

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How to adapt organisation structure to improve
competitiveness?

• Case study / problem solving approach
• View the scenario and organisational structure of
  Rapid Digital Plc prior to restructuring.
• Cause, effect, solution, justification

Pre restructuring
Post restructuring