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Learning Outcomes
Explain how human resources planning and a firm’s
mission, vision, and values are integrally linked to its
strategy
Understand how an organization’s external
environment influences its strategic planning
Understand why it is important for an organization to
do an internal resource analysis
Explain the linkages between competitive strategies
and HR
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Learning Outcomes
Understand what is required for a firm to successfully
implement a strategy and assess its effectiveness
Describe how firms evaluate their strategies and HR
implementation
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Strategic Planning and Human
Resources
Strategic planning
Procedures for making decisions about the
organization’s long-term goals and strategies
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Strategic Human Resources
Management (SHRM)
Pattern of human resources deployments and activities
that enable an organization to achieve its strategic
goals
Combines strategic planning and HR planning
Strategy formulation - Provides input as to what is
possible given the types and numbers of people available
Strategy implementation - Makes resource allocation
decisions to implement the devised strategy
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Alignment of HRP and Strategic Planning
Two-way process
A firm’s HR strategy follows the business strategy and
helps implement it
People, culture, and climate of a company constrain a
firm’s ability to achieve strategically
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Step One: Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
Basic purpose of the organization and its scope of
operations
Strategic vision
Clarifies the long-term direction of the company and its
strategic intent
Core values
Strong and enduring beliefs and principles that the
company uses as a foundation for its decisions
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Step One: Mission, Vision, and Values
Developing a mission statement
Factors to be considered
Organization’s reason of existence
Need fulfilled by the organization in comparison to the
competitors
Knowledge of the need and methods for fulfilling them
Knowledge of market and the customers
Core values of the firm that will be practiced by the employees
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Step One: Mission, Vision, and Values
HR’s role
Communicates mission, vision, and values frequently
informally and formally
Recruit and hire employees whose values are consistent
with the organization
Translate mission, vision, and values into:
Specific on-the-job behaviors
Job descriptions
Basis of employee rewards
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Step Two: External Analysis
Environmental scanning: Systematic monitoring of
major external forces influencing the organization
Business environment: Factors that a firm cannot
directly control but can affect its strategy
Remote environment: Forces that generally affect
specific firms
Economy and ecological, technological, social, demographic,
and legal and regulatory changes
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Step Two: External Analysis
Competitive environment: Consists of a firm’s specific
industry
Includes the industry’s customers, rival firms, new entrants,
substitutes, and suppliers
HR’s external analysis
Changes in a firm’s remote and competitive environments are
monitored and analyzed
Affect hiring plans, recruitment and replacement polices
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Figure 2.2 - Five Forces Framework
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Core capabilities: Integrated knowledge sets within
an organization
Distinguish the organization from its competitors and
deliver value to customers
Value creation: What the firm adds to a product or
service by virtue of making it
Value = benefits – costs
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Resources of core capabilities
Processes - Standard routines for how work will be done
and results will be accomplished
Systems - Information systems, databases, and
proprietary technologies
People - Includes knowledge, skills, and abilities of
employees used to create value for customers
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Criteria for sustaining competitive advantage
Resources should be:
Valuable
Rare
Difficult to imitate
Organized
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Trends of employment relationships and HR practices
Strategic knowledge workers
Hold unique skills directly linked to the company’s strategy
Difficult to replace
Core employees
Skills are transferable
Managers invest less in training and development
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Supporting workers
Scope of duties is limited
Employment relationships are transaction-based and focused
on rules and procedures
External partners
Hold skills that are unique and specialized
Skills are not related to the company’s core strategy
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Figure 2.3 - Mapping Human Capital
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Cultural audits: Audits of the culture and quality of
work life in an organization
Firm surveys its employees on how they feel about a
number of issues
Identifies groups with different views about the nature
of work and how it should be done
Clan culture - Employees are closely knit and exhibit concern
for one another
Values their customers, loyalty, and cohesion
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Adhocracy culture - Characterized by risk-taking, innovation,
and a spirit of entrepreneurship
Market culture - Encourages competitive, result-oriented
behaviors
Hierarchical culture - Characterized by formal structures and
procedures
Values efficiency and stability
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Forecasting - Key elements
Forecasting demand for labor
Forecasting supply of labor
Balancing supply and demand considerations
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Figure 2.4 - Model of HR Forecasting
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Forecasting a firm’s demand for employees
Quantitative approaches
Trend analysis: Forecasts labor demand based on an
organizational index such as sales
Modeling or multiple predictive techniques - Combine several
factors to predict employment levels
Qualitative approaches
Management forecasts: Opinions of supervisors,
department managers, or experts, knowledgeable about the
organization’s future employment needs
Delphi technique - Solicits and summarizes judgments of a
preselected group of individuals
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Forecasting the supply of employees
Staffing tables: Graphic representations of all
organizational jobs
Contains numbers of employees currently occupying those
jobs and future employment requirements
Markov analysis: Tracks the pattern of employee
movements through various jobs
Quality of fill: Metric designed to measure how well new
hires are performing on the job
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Skill inventories: Files of personnel education,
experience, interests, and skills
Allow managers to quickly match job openings with employee
backgrounds
Management inventories - Data gathered on managers
Replacement charts: Listings of current jobholders
and potential replacements if an opening occurs, used
for succession planning
Succession planning: Identifying, developing, and tracking
key individuals for executive positions
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Step Three: Internal Analysis
Human capital readiness: Evaluating the availability
of critical talent in a company and comparing it to the
firm’s supply
Difference between the quantity and quality of
employees required and available represent the gap that
needs to be remedied
Provides managers a foundation to establish future
strategy and specific requirements for developing talent
to implement it
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Step Four: Formulating Strategy
SWOT analysis: Comparison of strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for strategy
formulation purposes
Strategy formulation builds on SWOT analysis to
devise a coherent course of action
Corporate strategy
Growth and diversification
Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategic alliances and joint ventures
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Step Four: Formulating Strategy
Business strategy
Low-cost strategy
Focuses on efficiency, productivity, and minimizing waste
Linked to HR planning through productivity and outsourcing
activities
Differentiation strategy
Based on delivering high-quality products, innovative
features, speed to market, or superior service
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Step Four: Formulating Strategy
Functional Strategy
Vertical fit/alignment
Horizontal fit/alignment
Aligning HR practices with one another internally to establish
a configuration that is mutually reinforcing
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Step Five: Strategy Implementation
Organizations strive for balance between demand and
supply considerations
Demand is based on forecasted trends in business
activities
Supply depends on locating required human resource
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Figure 2.9 - The 7-S Model
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Step Five: Strategy Implementation
If labor shortage is acute, company develops talent from
ground up
Firms restrict hiring, reduce their employees’ work
hours, and consider layoffs when forecasts project
surplus employees
Organizations have to be prepared to exit and enter new
lines of business, restructure, outsource, offshore and
downsize
HR managers should ensure no laws are violated while
downsizing
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Step Six: Evaluation
Benchmarking: Looking at an organization’s
practices and performances in an area and comparing
them with those of other companies
Gathering competitive information
HR metrics
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Figure 2.11 - Building the Metrics
Model
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Step Six: Evaluation
Measuring a firm’s strategic alignment
Balanced scorecard (BSC): Helps managers translate
strategic goals into operational objectives
Related cells - Financial, customer, processes and learning
Measuring horizontal fit
Managers identify key workforce objectives they look to
achieve
Identify HR practices used to elicit or reinforce the
objectives
Evaluate each HR practice
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Step Six: Evaluation
Successful HRP helps increase organizational
capability
Organizational capability: Capacity of the
organization to act and change in pursuit of sustainable
competitive advantage
Flexibility
Coordination flexibility - Ability to rapidly reallocate
resources to new or changing needs
Resource flexibility - Result from having adaptable
people and resources that can be used different ways
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