HRM case study: new director of human resource
“ Ace Institute of Management ”
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Assignment: 1
Case: The New Director of Human Resources
EMBA Spring 2013(2nd Semester)
Submitted By: Submitted To:
Raghbendra Kumar Shah Mr. Jayendra Rimal
Roll: EMBA 16 HRM Instructor
Date of submission: 10th March 2014
Question-1: Discuss the relationship between corporate human resources structure and operations at the plant level. What impact, if any, did that relationship have on the situation described by Newcombe?
Answer:
After thoroughly study of the case of Mount Ridge Engineering’s corporate human resource structure and plant operation procedures, we found current relationships between human resource policies and actual plant operations are very weak. Although we can say that the human resource department has established a fairly complete set of procedures and policies, the actual implementation of the policies at plant level operations do not seem to be thorough enough, no employee implement those rules. Especially, the staffing function is very weak. There is no proper linkage between corporate HR structure and operations at the plant level. In other word there is no chain of command kind of linkage between them. It seems that operations office can do the HR functions by themselves like hire and fire which is in fact corporate HR department’s sole function. Even in the termination form there is only Employee’s signature and Plant supervisor’s signature i.e. no control of the corporate HR department at all. The reason behind leave seems to be written by the supervisor not the employee, this is not logical. In fact, forcing a person for signing on the blank form of termination notice is completely illegal and against the labor act (if the allegation of Johnson is true). This may create a big legal problem in future.
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Assignment: 1
Case: The New Director of Human Resources
EMBA Spring 2013(2nd Semester)
Submitted By: Submitted To:
Raghbendra Kumar Shah Mr. Jayendra Rimal
Roll: EMBA 16 HRM Instructor
Date of submission: 10th March 2014
Question-1: Discuss the relationship between corporate human resources structure and operations at the plant level. What impact, if any, did that relationship have on the situation described by Newcombe?
Answer:
After thoroughly study of the case of Mount Ridge Engineering’s corporate human resource structure and plant operation procedures, we found current relationships between human resource policies and actual plant operations are very weak. Although we can say that the human resource department has established a fairly complete set of procedures and policies, the actual implementation of the policies at plant level operations do not seem to be thorough enough, no employee implement those rules. Especially, the staffing function is very weak. There is no proper linkage between corporate HR structure and operations at the plant level. In other word there is no chain of command kind of linkage between them. It seems that operations office can do the HR functions by themselves like hire and fire which is in fact corporate HR department’s sole function. Even in the termination form there is only Employee’s signature and Plant supervisor’s signature i.e. no control of the corporate HR department at all. The reason behind leave seems to be written by the supervisor not the employee, this is not logical. In fact, forcing a person for signing on the blank form of termination notice is completely illegal and against the labor act (if the allegation of Johnson is true). This may create a big legal problem in future.
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