HR Tasks and Activities

Question 1

Linking Strategic Planning to HR.
What are the Mission, Vision and Values?

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Answer 1

• Capture business philosophy
• establish cultural foundation

Question 2

Linking Strategic Planning to HR.
What are the aspects of the SWOT analysis?

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Answer 2

• to gauge demographic trends and the labor market
• analyse the workforce´s culture, competency and position

Question 3

Linking Strategic Planning to HR.
What is part of the Strategy formulation and after that, the Strategy implementation/ Evaluation?

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Answer 3

• ensure fit between strategy and workforce
• reconcile supply and demand via hiring, downsizing etc.
• staffing, training etc. to motivate employees for strategy/ change

Question 4

What is the Role of HR in Establishing Mission, Vision and Values?

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• HR as the sounding board for the management
• ensure employee perspectives

Question 5

What is the role of HR in reinforcing (=bekräftigen) Mission, Vision and Values?

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• frequent formal and informal communication, e.g. staff meeting, email, onboarding procedure
• recruiting employees whose values are consistent with the organization
• translating the mission, vision and values into specific on-the-job-behaviours and job descriptions
• recognizing and rewarding employees accordingly

Question 6

HR lense on SWOT analysis: Strenghts and Weaknesses

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• core capabilities
• types of talent and their composition in the workforce
• corporate culture
• talent attractiveness

Question 7

HR lense on SWOT analysis: Opportunities and Threaths

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• labor market trends (qualitative and quantitative)
• demogaphic/ social trends
• competitive environments
• legal developments
• technology

Question 8

What is the role of HR in strategic planning and implementation?

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Answer 8

Formulation:
- gives inoputs and constraints for the planning process
- like qualifications of current staff
- training and recruiting needs
- labor market and law restricitons

Implementation:
- does workforce planning, qualitative and quantitative
- makes a forecast
- act of changing the management

Question 9

What is the function of Workforce planning?

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Answer 9

• balances labor demand (how many people of which quaifications do we need?) and supply (where do we get them from? existing market and labor market)
• all other functional HR activities are derived from WFP
• anticipates (=vorhersehen) changes in HR reqirements
• aims to avoid overstsffing and understaffing