Compensation and Benefits
1. Your company, an Agritech startup which had a humble beginning is now gone for merger with a big MNC. Looking at that now the new management has decided to formulate compensation strategies. Before penning down the strategies, the HR Manager considers it necessary to identify factors that influence the compensation strategies. You, as an employee of HR Department, are assigned this task of identifying these factors.
2. In the past few years your organization has achieved marvelous results and had manifold growth. The success of the organization has skyrocketed based on which you are opening up a subsidiary in various other foreign(country) locations. You as HR manager has to device an international compensation. To your management present what is an international compensation and its the key components (discuss all components in detail).
3. Food & Health Pvt Ltd is a wholesome and organic food chain which after capturing a huge and overwhelming success in the online market is now venturing into retail business. The HR is now confused because earlier all their employees were part time or work from home but now, they have to engage people in full time capacity. You are an Asst. Manager HR and have been asked by your senior to do work on this issue. You have an idea to formalize this through compensation survey
a. Explain to them what is salary /compensation survey and how will it serve purpose in Food & Health?
b. Explain to them types of survey, which you would want to do and suggest which would be best suited for the organization.
Industrial Relations & Labour Laws
1. ‘The industrial relations scenario has been perceived differently by different practitioners and theorists’, Explain.
2. Trade unions in India have evolved after independence. Elaborate.
3. Write briefly on:
a. AITUC and INTUC
b. BMS and HMS
Manpower Planning, Recruitment and Selection
1. What are the common difficulties faced by IT companies related to manpower planning?
2. Why Performance Appraisal is important? What can be the threats to performance appraisal?
3. 360- degree feedback is effective way of appraising the performance of employees provided it is designed and implemented scientifically.
a. Give reasons of how 360 degrees feedback is an effective method of performance appraisal.
b. While using this method, organizations might come across some difficulties. What kind of difficulties can be faced by the organizations and how those difficulties can be addressed?
Organisation Culture
1. Please outline the relation between the organisational culture and organisational structure? Explain the steps for creating organisational culture. Describe six socialization tactics?
2. Discuss the practices that can be used by an organisation to create an ethical organisational culture. What is a positive organisational culture? Explain.
3. Over the past few years, the profitability of Mobius Ltd has been significantly declining against the expected projections mainly due to aggressive competition and economic hardships that characterize the market. In addition, results from a recently conducted cultural/employee attitude survey indicated that Mobius Ltd employees lack cohesion, motivation, commitment. The organisation’s engagement quotient scores were below the sector benchmark of competitor organisations. During the last organisational engagement survey track action planning, staff found it challenging to engage in a meaningful manner with the action planning process. The company has a rank & file structure in place and is hierarchical in its approach.
More importantly as indicated in the engagement survey, employees at Mobius Ltd seems to have significantly low levels of job satisfaction, teamwork, trust (among themselves and the management), and expectations for future advancements (promotions and rewards).
On the same note, there was a 30% increase in pilfering of company resources as evidenced from the analysis of company data, an all-time high absenteeism rate to add to the woes of the company. The 18% increase in last year’s staff turnover is also an issue that needs to be addressed. Considering these issues, the CEO of Mobius Ltd strongly suggested that there is need for change if the company is to survive the current unforgiving market and economic trends.
This he attributed to the fact that the current culture adopted by the company was the root cause of the poor performance exhibited by the company. As such, an external party report has been necessitated by the need to identify, analyse, and solve the cultural and behavioural issues that affect Mobius Ltd.
Questions:
a. What would you define as some key cultural attributes of Mobius Ltd?
b. The HR Head has been tasked, to provide a detailed culture journey plan for the organisation with outcome milestones and indicative timelines. How would you approach this task and what would you do? (Focus on the key attributes to creating and sustaining organisational culture).
Organisational Theory, Structure and Design
1. ‘Fruits Delicious Ltd’ has hired you as an HR Advisor to help them improve their organizational performance. Which internal organizational aspects would you consider that should be aligned with each other for maximum success? Explain the 7S framework in the context of this start-up company. Conclude by giving your opinion on how it will impact performance.
2. Ryan always wanted to establish his own news agency. He had all the financial and physical resources required to begin but he was not aware of the key fundamental elements of an organization. Why do you think these are important? As an HR consultant, help him with this task by designing the main organizational elements. Also, align these with his business.
3. As project leaders, while Sandy believes in enhancing team member’s effectiveness, Mathew believes in focusing on enhancing the overall organizational effectiveness. This difference of opinion always confuses their team members. Now, the senior management has realized that it is high time to get the issue sorted. So, the HR Manager, Steve Hussey has been assigned the task to devise a standardized and holistic process of measuring organizational effectiveness. Along with this, the management has also asked him to come up with a contemporary effectiveness approach that will replace the traditional approaches. Keeping the above scenario in mind,
a. Explain how Steve Hussey will devise a holistic process of measuring organizational effectiveness.
b. Explain which, one, contemporary approach will Steve choose and why?
Performance Management System1. Jagruti Electric Motors is a startup company and has just introduced Two-wheeler electric scooters in India. The marketing team consists of 10 employees. You lead the marketing team and you need to prepare four Team goals that the marketing team needs to focus on. Use the concept of SMART goals while preparing the Team goals.
2. “Forever Young” is a women’s premium brand dealing with women’s apparel, shoes, bags and other accessories. The brand has a pan-India presence in malls and online shopping. It has plans of launching globally starting with South East Asian countries. Prepare a Balanced Scorecard for “Forever Young” covering one goal each in Financial, Customer, Business Process and Learning & Growth quadrant.
3. Using ‘’cost effectiveness’’ as the theme, prepare two SMART each for the following profiles:
a. Production Executive at a manufacturing company
b. Dispatch Executive at a Logistics company