Staff Integration

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL STUDIES

CHRM 412: STAFF INTEGRATON AND SEPARATION

CAT/ASSIGNMENT

CAT I

Q.1

A) As a HR specialist there is a need of analyzing the ways of doing work. Explain the different steps you would undertake in the method study. (15 marks)

Provide answers…..

b) Explain the key issues of HRM. (15 marks)

There is a need for human resources management to focus on the impact of what they do on organizational objectives. Human resources (HR) have tended to be more concerned with procedural and maintenance issues and not with aligning HR strategy with organizational strategy. The link between human resources and organizational performance must be strengthened.

There is a real need for a synergy between two ostensibly competing priorities. These are (1) fair employment practices and workplace justice, and (2) high performance for effectiveness and global competitiveness. There are times when these seem dissonant with each other. In South Africa, the focus in the past has been more on industrial relations and fair labor practices than on competitiveness through human capital. Understandably there is an historical context in which the field of HR and IR emerged. They have been at the forefront of workplace change. Industrial relations were paramount in achieving human rights at work. The next phase was the institutionalization of these rights and practices in law and in public policy. Now we have to be more strategic in linking strategic HR initiatives and business strategy.

A key facet of strategic HR is differentiation – a unique HR value proposition and employer brand which makes it both different and more competitive than other firms in its industry. How the organization attracts, motivates and retains human capital – especially intellectual capital in the area of the core competence of its business – is critical. Allied to this is the notion of talent management. Another substantive issue in HR is that of HR development – this...