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The document discusses the manager's role in human resource management and motivating employees. It presents a case study where a HR director must reduce staff by two employees and evaluate options to do so, including laying off two of five described employees or suggesting alternatives to layoffs. The director must also assist those let go and remaining employees.

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Topic 2 Group Activity

The document discusses the manager's role in human resource management and motivating employees. It presents a case study where a HR director must reduce staff by two employees and evaluate options to do so, including laying off two of five described employees or suggesting alternatives to layoffs. The director must also assist those let go and remaining employees.

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Topic 2: The Manager’s Role in HRM

Group Activity

Read and analyze the case provided below. Answer the requirements that follows.

1. “Motivating rank and file employees should be done by their immediate


managers. The role of HRM in motivating employees is limited to equipping line
managers with means of motivating their employees.” Do you agree with this
statement? Why?

2. All HR manager must make difficult decisions. One of the most difficult is
choosing which employees to lay off in time of need. Assume that you are the
human resource director of a 500-employee software company. You have been
notified by top management that you must permanently reduce your staff by
two individuals. Below are some data about your five employees.
• Shane Allen, age 36. Shane has been with your company for five years in the HR
department. She has been consistently rated as above average in her
evaluations in the past three years. Shane has an MBA from Asian Institute of
Management, a premier business school. She has recently given birth to her
second child and as such she is on leave. She is expected to return in 20 weeks.
• George Owen, age 49. George has been with you for four months and has 11
years of experience in the company in systems management. He has a degree
in computer science and master’s degrees in accounting information systems.
He’s also a CPA. George’s evaluations over the past three years in the systems
department have been average, but he did save the company P10,000,000 on
a suggestion he made to use electronic time sheets.
• Charles Ruego, age 31. Charles has been with the company almost four years.
His evaluations over the past three years in your department have been
outstanding. He is committed to getting the job done and devotes whatever it
takes. He has also shown initiative by taking job assignments that no one else
wanted. Charles has been instrumental in starting up your benefits administration
intranet for employees.
• Kate Wale, age 35. Kate has been with your company seven years. Four years
ago, Kate was in an automobile accident while traveling on business to a
customer’s location. As a result of the accident, she was disabled and is
wheelchair bound. Rumor has it that she is about to receive several million pesos
from the insurance company of the driver who hit her. Her performance the past
two years has been above average. She has a bachelor’s degree in human
resource management and a master’s degree in human development. Kate
specializes in training, career, and organization development activities.
• Reeves Samson, age 43. Reeves just completed his joint MBA and law program
and recently passed the bar exam. He has been with your department four
years. His evaluations have been good to above average. Five years ago,
Reeves won a lawsuit against your company for discriminating against him in a
promotion to a supervisory position. Rumor has it that now, with his new degree,
Reeves is actively pursuing another job outside the company.
a. Given these five brief descriptions, make a recommendation to your boss in
which two employees will be laid off.
b. Discuss any other options you might suggest to meet the requirement of
downsizing by two employees without resorting to layoffs.
c. Discuss what you will do to (1) assist the two individuals who have been let go
and (2) assist the remaining three employees.

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