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Human Resources Management - In-class activity

Congratulations! You were just promoted as the Human Resource Manager at X country office of Fashion Wear Incorporated! Fashion Wear is a conglomerate offering design, fashion, and service globally and owns thousands of stores located across the world.

The company policy is, remarkably, against any discrimination. Country X is renowned for its multicultural social structure and gender inequality in every sphere of social life. The country also has a bad reputation in terms of poor decent work conditions in workplaces.

Despite these contextual problems, your office is very committed to the company's HR policies. Because the headquarter associates company success in business with the competencies and efforts of each employee. This belief manifests itself in the stringent HR policies.

Moreover, your office has invested in a costly computerized human resource information system (HRIS). The HRIS enables the company to record everything from job titles to demographics, attendance, and sales levels for each employee.

As a twist of faith, your promotion has coincided with a difficult period. The figures for profit and sales have far below expectations so far. So, money is tight, and you have to work within a constrained budget. As usual, poor company performance exerts extra pressure on the HR department. You expect various issues to arise in your Human Resource Manager position.

Answer the following questions based on the above scenario.

1) What kind of challenges do you have to cope with as an HR manager?

2) The case informs us of the stringent HR policies executed by the company. What might these policies be?

3) Assume that the HR manager before you failed at managing the employment life-cycle. Redesign the human resource planning process. To which steps do you need to pay attention? Elaborately discuss.

4) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the HRIS.