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Perspective
Prof Ana Martins
Seminar on SHRM
Management Development Programme
4 May 2017
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1 Strategy and human resource
management
Learning Outcomes
● Analyse the resource-based view of the organisation and describe key concepts
related to this approach.
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Summary
1. Strategic management focuses on the scope and direction of an
organisation, and often involves dealing with uncertainty and complexity.
2. Strategic human resource management is concerned with the relationship
between an organisation’s strategic management and the management of its
human resources. The exact nature of this relationship in practice, however,
is likely to be difficult to analyse and evaluate, not least because strategic
management is a problematic area.
3. Four approaches to strategy making were described and evaluated: the
classical approach, evolutionary perspectives, processual approach and
systemic perspectives. The implications of each of these approaches for
human resource management were subsequently analysed.
4. Strategic integration was used to explore possible links between approaches
to strategy and human resource management. Integration has been
recognised as a necessary condition for HRM to be considered strategic
although it is not sufficient to treat it as the only link to define a strategic
approach to HRM. Six possible strands of strategic integration were
identified.
5. Resource-based theory was analysed because of its recognition of an
organisation’s internal resources as a potential source of competitive
advantage. Forms of organisational capability were analysed and their
relationship to human resource management were evaluated.
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2 Strategic human resource management:
a vital piece in the jigsaw of organisational
success?
Learning Outcomes
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Figure 2.5 Changes in the HRM operating environment of the 1980s and 1990s
which are associated with the growth of interest in SHRM
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Summary
1. The main principles of SHRM include:
2. a stress on the integration of personnel policies both one with another and with business planning more generally;
3. the locus of responsibility for personnel management no longer resides with spe- cialist managers but is now assumed by
senior line management;
4. the focus shifts from management–trade union relations to management– employee relations, from collectivism to
individualism.
5. there is stress on commitment and the exercise of initiative, with managers now assuming the role of ‘enabler’,
‘empowerer’ and ‘facilitator’.
6. The principal theoretical approaches to SHRM are termed: universalist, matching models (closed) and matching models
(open). The universalist approach assumes that there are ‘best HR practices’ that promise success irrespective of
organisational circumstances. The matching models (closed) approach specifies HR policies and practices that are relevant
to specific organisational situations, whereas the matching models (open) approach defines the employee behaviours
necessitated by the organisation’s overall strategy. These behaviours are to be delivered through the HR strategy.
7. All of the theoretical approaches to SHRM have their problems. Those concerned with the universalist approach are:
defining the ‘best practices’ to apply; the low regard for organisational context; and the absence of employee input
assumed. The problems with the matching models (closed) approach are: the ambiguity that attends the defining of
strategy; the essentially managerialist stance assumed; and problems concerned with implementation. Problems attending
the matching models (open) are the models’ rather idealised nature and, like the other models, their prescriptive tone.
8. The growth of interest in SHRM was due to a number of factors including: the crisis of under-performance in American
industry; the rise of individualism; a decline in collectivism; the rise of knowledge workers with differing work
expectations; and a search for more status by personnel specialists.
9. In an attempt to establish the link between SHRM and organisational performance there have been numerous studies
conducted since the mid-1990s in the USA and UK. In general, these have been very positive about the relationship
between SHRM and organisational performance, although most have not offered an explanation as to why certain HR
practices may lead to enhanced organisational performance.
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3 SHRM in a changing and shrinking
world: internationalisation of business
and the role of SHRM
Learning Outcomes
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1. MNCs pursue international business for a variety of reasons in a variety of
ways. G The importance of MNCs is not new but their growth in recent
years has been rapid
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3. SIHRM may be better understood by the examination of a model in which
classic MNC components and factors relevant to the MNC’s external and
internal operating environments influence the SIHRM issues, functions, and
policies and practices, which in turn affect the concerns and goals of the
MNC.
4. The development of key competences by MNCs is important at three levels:
organisational, line management and HR professionals.
5. National cultural differences are an important aspect of SIHRM and have
been measured by a number of authors allowing these differences to be
categorised.
6. Strategies for managing cultural differences include: ignoring them,
minimising them and utilising them.
7. The effects of national cultural differences on HR practices can be quite
profound with the consequence that the transferability of many of these
practices is suspect.
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4 Evaluating SHRM: why bother and
does it really happen in practice?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● identify the various stakeholders in any evaluation and their need both to contribute
and to receive feedback;
● assess the choices to be made in respect of the evaluation process and make
suitably informed decisions;
● outline a range of strategies and data collection techniques involving both primary and
secondary data, which may be used to evaluate strategic human resource
management;
● identify the complexity of issues associated with feeding back the findings of
evaluations.
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Summary
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Part 1:
Case Study – Strategic human
resource management at
Halcrow Group Limited
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5 The role of organisational structure in
SHRM: the basis for effectiveness?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● define the term organisational structure and evaluate its links to
strategy;
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Summary
1. Strategic linkages exist between corporate strategy, organisational structure and human resource
strategies, demonstrating the strategic nature of structure.
2. Dimensions of organisational structure have been identified that can be used to analyse the nature and
evaluate the effectiveness of an organisation’s structure.
3. These dimensions indicate the complex range of variables to be understood by managers in deciding how
they should structure an organisation’s activities to meet its strategic objectives. They also indicate that
the design of organisational structure involves managerial or strategic choice.
4. Three perspectives were considered that offer explanations about the relationship between the design of
organisational structure and strategic effectiveness. These relate to the classical universal, contingency
and consistency approaches to the design of organisational structure. A fourth perspective relates to the
role of organisational politics and the exercise of power that has already been considered and discussed
in depth in Chapter 1.
5. Principal forms of organisational structure were reviewed and their effects on those who work within
them analysed and evaluated. These forms include: simple; functional; divisionalised; matrix; project-
based; network, cellular and virtual structures. Theoretical linkages between these organisational forms
and contingency variables have been recognised The development of these forms indicates some degree
of movement from centralised and bureaucratic structures to decentralised and more fluid ones.
6. Organisations need to promote human resource strategies that are congruent with the nature of the
organisational structure that they chose (or recognise the impact of their structure on their espoused
human resource policies and the practice and outcomes of the human resource strategies that they
promote).
7. Choice of organisational structure has been recognised as leading to a problematic relationship between
the respective desires for managerial control, organisational efficiency and responsiveness to external
conditions and intended markets. Attempts to maximise centralised managerial control in situations
requiring greater organisational responsiveness are likely to affect the pursuit of effectiveness and
working relationships adversely.
8. Decentralised forms of organisational structure may adversely affect the scope for and nature of
organisation-wide human resource strategies. In practice, this is likely to be a function of both the nature
of the structural form that is chosen and the strategy of the organisation.
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Research topics
1. An evaluation of the relative advantages and disadvantages of centralised
and decentralised structures: a case study of ABC.
2. An exploration of the impact of bureaucracy in department WX in
company YZ.
3. Examining the implications of a case study’s organisation for those who
work in it.
4. How do managers/why should managers assess the effectiveness of
organisational structure?
5. An exploration of the relationship between organisational structure and
the management of change (in relation to a particular case study
organisation).
6. The relationship between organisational structure and human resource
management: a case study-based investigation.
Each of these suggestions for research projects may be undertaken as a
literature-based examination and discussion, where your institution requires
this type of project to be completed as part of an award, or in relation to a
particular case study organisation, where you are required to collect some
primary data and analyse these in relation to theory for part of your course.
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6 Relationships between culture and
SHRM: do values have consequences?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● explore the three main perspectives through which culture has been
explored within organisations: integration, differentiation and
fragmentation;
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1. An understanding of culture, and the interactions between different spheres of culture, such as
national and organisational, can assist in the selection and application of effective HRM
interventions and the hierarchies in which they are placed. At the same time, SHRM
interventions can influence the culture within an organisation.
2. Culture consists of shared attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviours that belong to and have been
learned by a group and, because they are considered to be valid, have been internalised and are
taken for granted. These are taught to new members of the group as the correct way to
perceive, think and feel.
3. Culture is one of a range of factors that can influence an organisation’s competitiveness.
4. There is long-standing debate as to whether the impact of national cultural differences is
declining or increasing. This is known as the convergence/divergence debate.
5. Researchers have developed dimensions upon which national cultures can be placed. These
emphasise the importance of power and the way it is exercised, alongside other factors, such as
tolerance of uncertainty, orientation to time, the relative focus on individuals and the way in
which conflicts are resolved.
6. Nations’ scores against dimensions of national cultures can be thought of as stereo- types
representing the mean around which scores for individual members of that country are
dispersed. There is likely to be less variation within countries than between countries.
7. Within organisations culture is most visible in practices or artefacts and, to a lesser extent,
espoused values. SHRM interventions are largely concerned with structural means of influencing
and supporting these visible manifestation
8. To re-align an organisation’s culture, the basic underlying assumptions upon which these
practices or artefacts are based need to be changed. As these are deeply and strongly held
within each employee’s subconscious they are difficult to change, especially over the short term.
9. Realigning an organisation’s culture is a complex process utilising a range of strategies. These are
often divided into top-down (programmatic) and bottom-up (critical path) approaches
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Case study:
Corporate culture and Group
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7 Strategic human resource
planning: the weakest link?
Learning Outcomes
● identify and discuss the core principles that underpin the concept of
strategic human resource planning;
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Figure 7.2 Input and output relationships between strategic human resource
forecasting, strategy formulation and HRP
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1.HRP is the name given to formal processes designed to ensure that an organisation’s human
resource capability can support the achievement of its strategic objectives. It involves
forecasting the future demand for and supply of labour and drawing up HR plans to reconcile
mismatches between the two.
2. When viewed as the vital link between organisation and HR strategies, HRP can be regarded
as a bridging mechanism fulfilling three vital roles: aligning HR plans to organisational
strategies to further their achievement; uncovering HR issues that can threaten the viability
of organisational strategies and thereby lead to their reformulation; and acting in a
reciprocal relationship with organisational strategies such that HR issues become a central
input into the strategy formation process.
3. Numerous difficulties surrounding the practice of HRP may thwart its potential to serve as
the link between organisational strategy and SHRM practice. These difficulties may be
sufficient to lead organisations to abandon any thoughts of practising HRP, may conspire to
reduce the effectiveness of HRP practice, or may limit its application to short-term,
operational matters.
4. Patchy and limited data on HRP practice points to its low level of take-up by organisations
leading to an alternative perspective of HRP as the missing or weakest link between
organisational and HR strategies. This leads to a paradox where the more the complexities of
organisational life warrant the establishment of HRP as the vital link the more these
complexities are likely to cause HRP to be cast aside to become the missing/weakest link.
5. Avenues for confronting operational difficulties and forging HRP as the pivotal bridging
mechanism between organisational strategy and SHRM practice focused on: raising the profile
of HR issues generally and the status and credibility of HR practitioners particularly; using
contingency and scenario planning to introduce flexibility into the HRP process; building
towards a flexible workforce that can manage the vagaries arising from unplanned
developments and an uncertain future; and develop- ing an HRP process centred on continual
review, evaluation and adaptation and adopting a multi-stakeholder approach to make this a
realistic possibility.
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1. How do the processes and practices of HRP vary between SMEs and
large organisations?
2. To what extent and how do organisations conduct longer-term HRP?
3. How do HR professionals perceive their role in HRP? An exploration of
the differences between their aspirations and perceptions of reality.
4. How extensive is HRP in organisations? A survey of current HRP
practice in the UK.
5. Vive la difference! How do organisations based in different countries
view the utility of HRP? A comparative study of European HR practice.
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Case study:
Human resource planning in
mergers and acquisitions
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8 Strategic recruitment and
selection: Much ado about nothing?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● provide an underpinning rationale in support of the development and practice
of strategically integrated recruitment and selection;
● identify and explain the major features of strategic recruitment and selection,
and summarise these through an explanatory model;
● account for the apparent mismatch between the rationale for strategic
recruitment and selection and the paucity of evidence of its practice.
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Figure 8.2 Why bother with strategic recruitment and selection? An interrelated
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1. The pursuit of competitive advantage, interest in SHRM and the role of recruitment and selection
in securing one of an organisation’s most valuable assets provide a powerful rationale for the
development of strategic recruitment and selection.
2. It is possible to construct a model of strategic recruitment and selection around three primary
features: strategic integration; a long-term perspective; and the use of HRP as a bridging
mechanism between strategy and HR practice. The strategic variant elevates the organisational
importance of recruitment and selection, and leads to the generation of a more demanding
person specification. These two outcomes generate four consequential interrelated, secondary
features that are likely to shape strategic recruitment and selection practice: the adoption of a
front-loaded investment model; rigorous evaluation of outcomes; the use of high validity,
sophisticated selection methods; and multi-stakeholder involvement
3. Far from being a simple notion, strategic fit has been revealed as a multi-dimensional concept
where it is possible to identify at least six different strands. This means that strategic
recruitment and selection has potentially to be aligned with multiple interpretations of strategy
if it is to satisfy its strategic credentials.
4. Despite uncertainties surrounding strategy implementation and the business environment as it
unfolds over time, recruitment and selection practice can be shaped to support long-term
changes in strategic direction.
5. On balance, and despite a powerful rationale to the contrary, organisational approaches to
recruitment and selection practice appear to be dominated by traditional and not strategic
approaches.
6. The overall conclusion is that although the case for adopting strategic recruitment and selection
may be seductively persuasive it is arguably another case in the HR arena where the rhetoric
runs ahead of the reality
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9 Performance management: so
much more than annual appraisal
Learning Outcomes
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Figure 9.2 Four possible scenarios linking the demonstration of skills, behaviours
and attitudes (SBAs) with performance outcomes
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Performance management is an umbrella term to describe not a single activity but a range
of activities that may be gathered together to enhance organisational performance.
Although the performance indicators approach to performance management has
proliferated in many organisations, it offers a restricted perspective on performance
management.
Performance management may be linked to the organisation’s strategy through horizontal
and vertical integration.
Performance management has the facility to change the culture and therefore the working
practices of organisations as part of a concerted effort to generate change through its role
as part of an organisation’s ‘high performance’ HR strategy.
An important way of integrating the HR practices is to use the skills, behaviours and
attitudes necessary to deliver effective job performance as a way of assessing individual
success
Among the reasons for the growth in importance of performance management, are the
desire to achieve grater organisational effectiveness and the dissatisfaction with traditional
performance appraisal.
The performance management systems model includes inputs such as external and internal
contexts and employee skills; processes including setting objectives and 360- degree
appraisal; HR outputs such as performance plans and pay awards; and enhanced
organisational performance.
Included in the major conceptual flaws in performance management thinking are the
potential preoccupation with management control, the assumed compliance of employees
and the dangers of prescribing a particular model of performance management without
paying due regard to the organisation’s context
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Case study:
Performance management at
Tyco
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10 Strategic human resource development:
pot of gold or chasing rainbows?
Learning Outcomes
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1. It is possible to construct a continuum of HRD strategic maturity upon which different
approaches to HRD can be positioned. At the strategically immature end HRD is conducted in
isolation of organisational strategies. Here, any strategic linkage is acci- dental and HRD
interventions represent isolated, tactical responses to operational problems encountered. At the
strategically mature end HRD approaches and specific interventions reflect full strategic
integration through their effective accommodation of two-way vertical and horizontal
integration.
2. In addition to strategic integration, SHRD is characterised by: senior management sponsorship;
the commitment and active involvement of all levels of management; effective collaborative
partnerships between HRD specialists and line managers; systematic environmental scanning to
maximise the lead time for developing HRD responses to change; transformation in the role of
HRD specialists from training providers to proactive change agents; a learning culture; and
comprehensive evaluation of SHRD interventions.
3. Although often positioned at the non-strategic end of the continuum of strategic maturity, it is
possible for the more familiar systematic cycle of HRD to be modelled to incorporate the
characteristics of SHRD.
4. The learning organisation and knowledge management have emerged as two recent approaches
to HRD that have a strong strategic connection. The learning organisation focuses on the process
of learning to learn so as to enable learning within organisations and the rate of change to be
faster than those achieved by competitors. Knowledge management adopts a narrower focus and
seeks to capture, disseminate and utilise existing knowledge and generate new knowledge in
order to sustain an organisation’s competitive position and promote innovatory behaviour. Both
concepts place a premium on human capital as the route to sustainable competitive advantage
where learning and knowledge can assume the status of an organisation’s core competence.
5. Within a multi-stakeholder perspective, managers can be identified as the linchpin for the
successful execution of SHRD. However, for a variety of reasons, their willing- ness and ability to
assume this central role in SHRD are questionable.
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Case study:
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11 Strategic reward management:
Cinderella is on her way to the ball
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● explain the factors in the external environment that have led to the
increased interest in strategic reward management;
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Summary
1. Reward management is concerned with financial and non-financial rewards to
employees and embraces the philosophies, strategies, policies, plans and processes
used by organisations to develop and maintain reward systems. Strategic reward
management plays an important role in delivering the organisation’s overall
business strategy by creating in employees certain behaviours, the need for which
are implied by the business strategy. These employee behaviours may be produced
by an HR strategy which includes a reward strategy as well as other HR strategies,
such as the cultural strategy, the structural strategy and other HR strategies.
2. A variety of factors in the external environment has led to the increased interest in
strategic reward management. Principal among these are those factors which have
impacted upon the commercial environment in which organisations operate creating
the necessity to be more competitive and responsive to change.
3. The intra-organisational factors that impact upon strategic reward management are
the organisation cultural strategies, structural strategies and other HR strategies. In
terms of reward, the principal contributors to the organisation’s cultural strategies
are pay for performance schemes. These may be at the level of the individual, the
team, the business unit and the organisation.
4. The reward contribution to the organisation’s structural strategies involves changing
reward structures. In this chapter the move from traditional pay structures to job
family and broad-banded structures was examined. Competence-related pay was
analysed as the means by which reward may complement other HR strategies
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Case study:
Developing a global reward
strategy at Tibbett and
Britten Group
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12 Managing the employment relationship:
strategic rhetoric and operational reality
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● explain the importance of the employment relationship to SHRM;
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The management of the employment relationship is a central area of
discussion, research and organisational practice within the field of SHRM.
Key concepts include the shift from traditional industrial relations to
employee relations. Key parties to the employment relationship can be the
grouped into bodies representing employers and employees.
G Two key differing perspectives in relation to a strategic approach to
the management of the employment relationship – namely unitarism and
pluralism – are identified and discussed.
G Key theoretical contributions in relation to strategic HRM and
employee relations have been identified and grouped. Four possible
organisational approaches to the management of the employment
relationship are presented. These four approaches are: new realism,
traditional collectivism, individualised SHRM and the black hole.
Potential policies and practices in relation to managing employee
relations in a strate- gic manner are discussed. This discussion is presented
under the central theme of employee involvement and participation.
Within this context, two key approaches are discussed in depth, namely
partnership and the psychological contract. The practical realities of
developing and managing partnership are discussed, as are the elements
involved in the development of the psychological contract at the workplace
and organisational level.
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Case study:
Strategic approaches to the
employment relationship social
partnership: the example of the
Republic of Ireland
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13 Diversity management: concern for
legislation or concern for strategy?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● explain the differences between managing diversity and equal
opportunities approaches to diversity management and the debates
relating to these approaches;
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Case Study:
Making diversity an issue in
leafy Elgarshire
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Summary
Conceptualisations of diversity management within the literature can be broadly categorised into
two groups:
G the equal opportunities approach, which has a legislative and compliance focus and is concerned
with equality of status, opportunities and rights. This, it can be argued, is deeply rooted in
traditional approaches to human resource management;
G the managing diversity approach, which focuses upon an explicit holistic strategy of valuing
differences, such as age, gender, social background, ethnicity and dis- ability. This, it can be argued,
is like SHRM, driven by organisational needs
G The business case claimed for a managing diversity approach includes a better public image for the
organisation, a satisfying working environment for employees, improved employee relations,
increased job satisfaction and higher employee morale, increased productivity and, for the
organisation, improved competitive edge. It is argued that organisations will only survive and prosper
in an increasingly competitive and dynamic global environment if they respond to the heterogeneity
of their markets. However, there is limited empirical evidence to support these claims in either the
UK or USA.
G Despite a lack of evidence, it seems probable that the benefits of diversity management will only
be realised within the context of the re-alignment of an organisation’s culture to one where diversity
is valued. For this to happen, it will be necessary to persuade those in power that this will impact
positively on organisational effectiveness.
G Empirical evidence suggests that, for many organisations, diversity management remains a
theoretical concept rather than a strategic reality, combining equal opportunities and managing
diversity approaches. The most frequent reason advanced for this is that organisations believe they
are already undertaking sufficient investment through ensuring equality of opportunity. However, for
organisations considering the implementation of a managing diversity approach, advice is available.
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14 Downsizing: proactive strategy or
reactive workforce reduction?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
● explain the purpose of downsizing and analyse the problems associated with its use;
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Case Study:
The demise of MG Rover cars?
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Summary
1. Downsizing is an organisational strategy to reduce the size of an organisation’s
work- force. Its use is likely to generate a range of reactions from those who remain
in an organisation, which may lead to adverse consequences.
2. Three organisational strategies have been identified to achieve downsizing. These
are: the workforce reduction strategy; organisation redesign strategy; and the
systemic change strategy. An important distinction has also been drawn between
the use of proactive and reactive approaches to downsizing. The use of a reactive,
workforce reduction strategy has been found to impair, rather than improve,
organisational performance. Even where this approach is not used there may still be
a negative effect arising from the creation of negative survivors’ reactions and the
loss of organisational competence.
3. Where organisations use methods to implement downsizing that emphasise
managerial control at the expense of perceived influence by employees, this will
generate further negative survivors’ reactions leading to adverse consequences for
the organisation.
4. The incidence and strength of survivors’ reactions are affected by the existence of
moderating variables. These highlight the scope for downsizing organisations to
intervene to seek to minimise their incidence or manage their effects.
5. A range of organisational theories, related to equity, organisational justice, job
insecurity, job redesign and organisational stress, can be used to suggest
appropriate human resource interventions to manage the process of downsizing
more effectively, depending on the characteristics of the organisational context
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Websites with Examples of Employer branding:
http://www.slideshare.net/eremedia/2014-employer-branding-global-trends-
study-report
http://www.slideshare.net/iheartbrand1/unilever-employer-brand
http://www.slideshare.net/linkhumans/loreal-employer-branding-and-evp
http://www.slideshare.net/Korn_Ferry/next-generation-employer-branding-3-
ways-your-employer-brand-could-be-doing-more
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=employee
+brandinig
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Assessments
1. Group case study analysis 50%
Flip charts will be collected with the Case analysis
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Wishing you all the
best with your
self-development
learning experiences
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