Wednesday 7 May 2014

HR - Moving From Administrative To Strategic


The management of human resources is a
fundamental activity for all businesses. In the competitive era of technology, the world development in globalization has brought the entire world to a single platform. Businesses have expanded and have increased their operations. Thus, in this competition, keeping itself on the top rank of the market, companies need to draft effective strategies. Out of these, one is the human resource that is considered as the most important one.


The effective development and implementation of strategy depend on the strategic capability of the organization, which will include the ability not only to formulate strategic goals, but also to develop and implement strategic plans through the process of strategic management.

Strategy is about implementation, which includes the management of change, as well as planning. Strategic HRM addresses broad organizational issues relating to organizational effectiveness and performance, changes in structure and culture, matching resources to future requirements, the development of individual capabilities, knowledge management and the management of change. It is concerned with both meeting human capital requirements and the development of process capabilities, that is, the ability to get things done effectively.

At Nestlé India, They make big investment in people, People are their top priority.

Nestle follows differentiation strategy and to make it a success it has HR strategies aligned accordingly. To support the differentiation strategy, Nestle practices following HR strategies to support differentiation:

·        They favour long term performance measures. Nestlé does not favor short-term profit at the expense of successful long-term business development.

·      They believe in extensive trainings of their employees to keep the pace with changing environment and keep them updated with latest innovations

·     At Nestle, equal and fair pay practices are followed. Nestlé’s pay structure, rewards &incentives systems are also designed in such a way so as to promote creativity.

·      Recruitment process is also totally based on hiring and recruitment of people who bring in new ideas.

·       Broad career paths are provided to employees by a continuous process of career development and high employee participation prevails in the organization. (Source- http://www.scribd.com) 

Thus HR & Hiring Managers are striving to become more strategic.  Strategic  HR department helping an Organization to focus on quality & career development of the employee. 

Read more on- http://www.forbes.com/sites/microsoftdynamics/2013/02/11/the-new-hr-manager-moving-from-administrative-to-strategic/


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1 comment:

  1. great..HR has transformed to revenue impact function from support Function

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