HR Assignment
HR Assignment
Name List: Kiran Francis.m Li Yaran S.kamala M.kavinila Jobin Jos N.karthikeyan
approach to HRM.SHRM is not a new concept but it is an extensions of the traditional HRM in the organizations.(Becker and Gerhart 1996 P 280) In todays powerful competitive and global marketplace, maintaining competitive advantage and becoming a low cost leader or a differentiator puts a heavy premium on having a highly committed or competent workforce. Christina, Ethel, Laura and findley 2003,p.379
Competitive advantage lies not just in differentiating a product or service or in becoming the low cost leader but in also being able to tap the companys special skills or core competencies and rapidly responding to customers needs and competitor moves .In other words competitive advantage lies in managements ability to consolidate corporate-wide technologies and production skills into competencies that empower individual businesses to adapt quickly to changing opportunities. The growing number of organizational employee resources are now regarded as a source of competitive advantage. Comparative HR practices Donestic and International HR practices The us production line was built around the concept of each person doing a separate ,independent task as the process moves sequentially from one worker to the next. This practice, based on the American culture ,was in direct opposition to the Japanese team concept. A), Power Distance In high-power distance cultures, workers follow orders as a matter of course, managers make the decisions because they are the managers, and no one questions their right to do so. B), Individualism Individualism , on the job , manifests itself through initiative, autonomy, achievement and individual decision-making. Individualism is a strong cultural trait in India, the United States, Australia, Great Britain and the Netherlands. C), Masculinity A masculine worker is aggressive, assertive and materialistic. Highly masculine cultures are found in India, Japan, Austria, Venezuela and Italy. The opposite of masculinity is femininity which refers to nurturing, caring for others, and concern for the quality of life. D), Implications for the Indian Manager Research by w whitely and G England found that Indian managers reflect a number of positive characteristics 1), they demonstrate a high moral orientation . 2), they are highly individualistic and 3), they have a strong learning towards organization compliance and competence. E), Foreign Investment Although Japanese firms have made outright purchases of US companies such as Sonys acquisition of Columbia Pictures and CBS Records, they have more often chosen to gain inroads into US corporate domain through equity participation. F), Local Leadership is the key to Analog Success The American approaches to leadership tend to advocate subordinate participation in the decision making process. Participative management seems to be the key to the emerging
American leadership practice because it is compatible with the American view that power in organizations is usually unequally distributed. G), Super Leadership at Samsung Following the Korean war, Koreas big family-owned conglomerates, called chaebols, grew dramatically through low-cost government loans and other forms of Japanese-style governmental dramatically through low-cost government loans and other forms of Japanese-style governmental assistance.
Reference
1, Anthony, Perrewe and Kacmar 1996 2, Barney 1991. 3,Christina, Ethel, Laura and findley 2003 4,Human Resource Management PL Rao