Introduction
“Organizational effectiveness depends on having the right people in the right jobs at the right time to meet rapidly changing organizational requirements”(Bechet and Walker, 1993). Right people can be obtained by performing the role of Human Resource (HR) function. Below is an outline and explanation of how to assess the HR functions of an organization by using HR activities in an architectural firm as an example.
Content
1. Strategic HRM: Using HR angle to look at an organization’s need “in the light of an organization’s external influences such as environment, mission, goal, objectives, strategies, and internal factors such as strengths and weaknesses, including its structure, culture, technology and leadership. (Bratton, 2007)”. Besides an organization internal HRM objectives should serve its goals.
In an architectural firm, the HR department balances the impacts of ten major infrastructure projects in Hong Kong in the coming years between business opportunities and facing shortage of architectural specialists although there will be a little bit relieve by returning architectural design people from Macau.
2. Motivation: establishment of performance linked reward systems in consideration of interaction between organizational factors namely organization culture and structure, management’s leadership style, job design, performance appraisal, pay, training and development programs, HR practices and employee’s background, personality, skill knowledge, abilities and attitudes.
The architects consider leading or participating in a unique project that can treated as non-financial rewards.
3. Recruitment (Stone J, 2005): attracting and selec ...