HRM-D1_1

Discussion 1:

Question:

Why is it important for HR management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to a more strategic contributor?

The main difference between HR management being administrative or strategic is that administrative is reactive and strategic is proactive. It is important to make the human resource management strategic for a variety of reasons such as employee retention, avoiding breaches of the law/policies, and creating a competitive edge. 

Some ways to build a strategic HR management system is by pre-planning and goal setting. It consists of shaping current employees into the future leaders of the company. This shows them that they are capable of moving up in the company, which in turn will increase retention rates. Having these experienced employees would give the company a more competitive edge. 

It also pre-plans for any type of sexual/race/ethnic issues that could arise to protect the company. Rather than putting rules in place after issues arrive, it builds a protocol. These types of managements are prepared for laws and base policies in line with them. This helps companies not have any breaches of the law. This also helps them deal with issues in a timely manner, since the protocol is already in place. 

A strategic human resource management team will have company goals written out. This will ensure that everyone in the company will be working towards the same big picture. Every team member knows the big goal and can set personal goals to help the team. This will increase productivity and prevent people from feeling stale and underappreciated at work. The company can also find a way to celebrate the smaller goals so that employee work is credited. Appreciated employees always work better. Basically, a strategic human resource management is prepared and helps keep the company safe and running in the most productive manner.

Discussion 2:

Question:

Why is it important for HR management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to a more strategic contributor?

In any organization Human resource department forms an important pillar for attracting, retaining and nurturing the talent thus making it a thriving force behind organization growth. For any organization people management is the core and main foray, if the HR department if properly organized makes the organization function properly and push across to reach new scaling heights. Let’s consider the companies the major innovators like Google, 3M and Facebook have reached the top rung of the ladder as technological and product innovators only because these companies have lot of talented people and management of them nurturing and keeping them motivated with all the necessary things is main challenge and they have successfully overcome it making them leaders on their respective domain.

Human Resource administration plays a key role to transform the company both operational and administrative aspect wise making a market leader. It contributes to make sure that each employee is taken care well and motivate and drive them to reach organizational objectives. They take care of employee relations, orientation. Escalation management and employee redressal making sure the employee concerns are addressed overall 360 degree. This lays a strong foundation by following principles to reach new heights and making an organization indispensable.