Strategic Human Resource Management

Scenario A few years ago, Mr. Axel Erate, a friend of yours, developed and App for iPhone that became so popular that it was sold for £4,000,000.00 to Apple. Over the years, your friend spent most of the money on cars, luxury holidays, and a failed venture in a pharmacy specialising in homeopathic remedies. However, after reading an article concerning the Internet of Things, Mr Erate recently started up a company called UrPhone4Everything® which specialises in creating customised mobile controlled solutions within a home to control everything from coffee machine to lightning, TV or heating system. Mr Erate started the company with 2 friends: one who specialised in coding, the other who specialised in hardware purchase and installation. He took a more commercial role and was in charge of the website, marketing and finance. The mission statement of UrPhone4Everything® is “Make your life simpler by connecting everything”. Its vision is “To be the market leader in intelligent home control”. The business rapidly expanded and, after 6 months, Mr Erate had to hire 5 people: 1x Personal Assistant to address all the questions and deal with customer queries, 1x Programmer to help with the coding of the app and the integration with the systems around the house and 3x Installers to perform home installations. Although there is no official organisational chart, UrPhone4Everything® is structured as follows Due to the success and originality of the concept, several magazine and newspapers ran feature articles last month and UrPhone4Everything® has been swarmed with requests and inquiries. One request in particular came from a wealthy Chinese property developer in the process of building 7000 apartments throughout the UK. Should this contract be successful, other contracts will come through. Since it takes 1 engineer between 2 and 4 hours to perform the installation, Mr. Erate knows that it is time to move to the next level and asked for a few HR consulting firms to help. Task 1 of 3 – Sales Pitch (AC1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 & 2.2) Scenario: As a long-time friend of Axel Erate, you are his preferred partner, however you still need to pitch for the contract since the 2 other members that started UrPhone4Everything® will be involved in the decision. Instruction: Prepare a sales pitch in which you should: 1. Explain the importance of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) and how you could add value to UrPhone4Everything®, in particular you should discuss how strategic HRM could be linked with other departments. 2. Explain the roles you could play at UrPhone4Everything® and their purposes 3. Analyse the factors that UrPhone4Everything® should consider before HR planning. 4. Determine some preliminary HR requirements for the organisation considering the new contract. Please note, this is a sales pitch so be ready to answer questions that may arise Delivery: ? 1x sales pitch (circa 20 minutes) Submission: ? 1x PowerPoint Task 2 of 3 – HR Plan and Memo (AC2.3, 3.1, 3.2 & 3.3) Scenario: You have been successful in securing the contract, and you have a lot to do. The management priority is to have a HR plan in place as soon as possible, but you feel that a HR policy is equally important, if not more. Therefore, you have decided to create the HR plan, but to include it together with a memo about creating an HR policy. Instruction: You therefore need to prepare: 1. A human resource plan for UrPhone4Everything® 2. A memo concerning the importance of HR policy, the memo should provide examples of regulatory, legal and ethical concerns that should be covered within the policy (living wage vs minimum wage, maternity cover, equality act 2010, termination of employment, etc.) which would be importance for UrPhone4Everything® Delivery and submission: 1x HR plan (circa 600 words) 1x memo (circa 900 words) Write a report in which you should 1. With reference to one or more organisations of your choice, examine the impact of different management and leadership theories on organisational strategy and structure. 2. Describe the impact of these organisational strategies, structures and culture on the management of HR. 3. With reference to one or more organisation, determine the effectiveness of HRM in organisations and evaluate the link between leadership & management and HRM. 4. In light of your findings, create a leadership strategy for UrPhone4Everything® 5. Create a HR strategy for UrPhone4Everything®