National Institute of Technology 2009 M.B.A Human Resource Management - Question Paper

Three steps of strategic managements:
1. Analyze the opportunities and threats or constraints that external environments.
2. Implement the strategies.
3. Evaluate and control activities to ensure that the organization objectives are achieved.
Strategy formulation at 3 levels:
1. Corporate level
2. Business unit level
3. Functional level
Strategy evaluation: process outcomes in decisions that can have significant and long lasting consequences, basic activities involved in strategy valuation are; Establishing performance in relation to the targets, standards and limits of the objectives and implementation plans; measuring the performance in relation to the targets at a provided time; Analyze the deviations from acceptable tolerance limits; Execute changes where necessary and are feasible.
Importance of strategic management:
1. Follows identifications,
2. Provides an objective view of management problems,
3. Represents a frame work for improved co-ordination and control of activities,
4. Minimizes the effects of adverse conditions and chances.
HR functions can contribute to strategic plans and actions of the firm in the subsequent ways:
1. Encouragement of pro active rather than reactive behavior,
2. Explicit communication of goals,
3. Stimulation of critical thinking,
4. Productivity as an HR based strategy,
5. Quality and service are HR based strategies,
6. Proficient strategic management.


Q.3 :( A) define Human Resource planning with illustration.
ANS:
Human resource planning with illustration: Refers to the estimation of the number and the kind of and the kind of people needed during the ensuring period. HR is significant as it helps determine future personnel needs, ensures protection to weaker parts acts as a basis for other personnel functions helps overcome resistance change and so on.
Future personnel needs: planning is significant a bit helps determine future personnel needs. Surplus or deficiency in staff strength is the outcome of the absence after defective planning.
Part of strategic planning: at the beginning of strategic planning HRD provides a set of inputs into the strategic formulation process.
Creating highly talented personnel: jobs are becoming highly intellectual and incumbents are getting vastly professionalized.
International strategies: depends upon HRP the department’s ability to fill key jobs with foreign national.
Foundation for personnel functions: manpower planning provides essential info for designing and implementing personnel functions such as recruitments, selection, personal movement and training and developments; increasing investments in HR is the investments on organization makes in its human resources, human assets as opened and training and developments.

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