Mechcon Case Study - Hrm

How can we manage our internal resources to meet our growth targets?





A Business Case
for the employment of a
Human Resources Manager






























MechCon Mission

      To deliver building services solutions that add to our clients’ businesses through an understanding of their strategic and operational requirements.





MechCon Objective

      MechCon will be the leading provider of building services solutions in the nation. Because we have the best people, we deliver the best solutions.




















Introduction

All organisations rely on the strategic management of three types of resources: structural, organisational and human. Effective and efficient strategic management of these three resources generates a competitive advantage and will improve an organisation’s ability to meet its corporate goals and objectives, and have a positive effect on an organisation’s bottom line. However, without equal consideration of all three resources during the strategy development phase, strategic decisions may fail.

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Figure 1. Components of Competitive Advantage



What value will a Human Resources Manager bring to MechCon?

Within MechCon, the strategic management of our structural and organisational resources has seen us move towards achieving our objective of being the leading provider of building services solutions in the nation. However, without including a human resources perspective at the strategy table, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable. We may currently be able to say we deliver the best solutions because we have the best people, but how are we looking at nurturing and developing these resources over the longer term to ensure we can continue to obtain a competitive advantage from them?

Many Australian businesses think of HR managers as someone who just looks after the hiring and firing of staff. But that is a very dated viewpoint. Today’s HRM is... [continues]

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