David Shepherd
Restructuring to survive.
Human resource planning – Human resource management needs to identify each job within the business and the role this job covers, this ends to be performed to understand the full amount of work that needs to be performed within the business structure. Once this is carried out the Human resource managers will understand the amount of staff it requires to hire or fire. Key areas with the business will be identified portraying that there may not be enough people working in one area e.g. production so there is a demand to employ more staff to improve production alternatively there may be to many technical staff, which results in a loss of profit so some workers need to be fired.
The trouble with human resources, people can become treated as a “human resource” rather than a person, and can be fired off as casually as they would with raw materials.
To motivate the staff and fulfil targets I believe the best solution would be to have introduced team work to under take work. This is because I believe teamwork leads to more efficient and effective production. People often respond positively to working with others because this satisfies their social needs. The result of working in teams would mean that managers would delegate responsibility to teams; I feel this would boast employee’s self- actualisation needs, with them now feeling that they hold a position with meaning boasting their egos. Team work allows strengths of one person to cover another one’s weakness while that person may make up for it by having a greater strength than that person in an other area, the advantage of this is that the work can be performed with a higher quality resultant, but be able to be performed equally or quicker than the task was previously. Team work will allow a person to develop new skills, gain respect from workers, and provide them with more variety in completing the production of a product therefore preventing boredom.
