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Hrmg 548: Strategic Human Resource Management Question Paper
Hrmg 548: Strategic Human Resource Management
Course:Master Of Business Administration
Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers
Exam Year:2013
KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION APRIL, 2013
UNIT CODE : HRMG 548
UNIT TITLE : STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
TIME: 3 HOURS
Instructions
Answer question one and any other three
Question One
Sony Company has been in existence for the last thirty years and has focused on producing electrical products.
Today, it has diversified into software, engineering and services, and is also global with over 500,000 employees working in 200 countries. Sony became a world leader by pursuing a corporate strategy that emphasized diversifying into high-tech products and services and doing so on a global basis. With a global strategy like that, SHRM plays a big role at Sony. Sophisticated engineering and services require more focus on a strategic employee selection, training and compensation than in the average firm, and globalization requires delivering these services globally. Sony sums up the basic themes of its strategy in several points:
A living company is a learning company.
Global teamwork is the key to developing and using all the potential of the firms HR.
A climate of mutual respect is the basis of all relationships within the company and with the society.
Required:
What role does HRM as strategic function plays in helping Sony achieve its strategic aims?
(5 marks)
Identify four strategically relevant HR System, policies and activities that Sony has instituted to realize the basic themes of its HR strategy.
(8 marks)
Explain the principle steps to the process of the HR strategy development based on the information in this case.
(8 marks)
Giving relevant examples from the case study, state the types of transformational change that Sony Company has focused on.
(4 marks)
Question Two
Clearly explain the goals of a performance management strategy in a modern organization.
(10 marks)
Evaluate the factors in the organization’s internal and external environment that will be relevant to the construction of a human resource strategy.
(15 marks)
Question Three
Identify possible barriers to change in organizations.
(10 marks)
Discuss ways/strategic for change management that may help in institutionalization of change in organizations.
(15 marks)
Question Four
Identify and explain the various components of an employee resourcing strategy.
(10 marks)
Briefly describe the strategic role of recruitment and selection in determining the strategic posture of an organization.
(15 marks)
Question Five
Briefly discuss the employer and employee objectives in a reward strategy.
(10 marks)
Explain how the conflicts in objectives in (a) above may impact corporate performance.
(15 marks)
Question Six
Discuss fully the models/approaches you would consider when developing human resource strategies, outlining the potential barriers that an organization would encounter in the formulation and implementation of HR strategies. What are the options available to HR strategist to address those barriers? (25 marks)
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