Strategic Planning & Human Resources The Diagnostic Model

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Strategic Planning Human ResourcesThe
Diagnostic Model
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Strategic Planning Organizational Behavior

• Strategic Planning
• Procedures for making decisions about the
  organizations long-term goals and strategies
• Organizational Behavior - Human Resources
  Planning (HRP)
• Process of anticipating and making provision for
  the movement (flow) of people into, within, and
  out of an organization.

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Organizational Behavior

• Actually Strategic Human Resources Management
  (SHRM)
• The pattern of human resources deployments and
  activities that enable an organization to achieve
  its strategic goals
• Strategy formulationproviding input as to what
  is possible given the types and numbers of people
  available.
• Strategy implementationmaking primary resource
  allocation decisions about structure, processes,
  and human resources.

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OB and Strategic Planning

• Strategic Analysis
• What human resources are needed to do job and
  what are available?
• Strategic Formulation
• What structure is required and necessary in
  support of human resources?
• Strategic Implementation
• How will the human resources be allocated?

Human Resources Planning
StrategicPlanning
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Linking Strategic Planning and Organizational
Behavior
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1. Mission, Vision, and Values

• Mission
• The basic purpose of the organization as well as
  its scope of operations
• Strategic Vision
• A statement about where the company is going and
  what it can become in the future clarifies the
  long-term direction of the company and its
  strategic intent
• Core Values
• The strong and enduring beliefs and principles
  that the company uses as a foundation for its
  decisions

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F E E D B A C K
ASSESS ENVIRONMENT
SET OBJECTIVES
APPLY HUMAN RESOURCE ACTIVITIES
EVALUATE RESULTS

• EXTERNAL
• CONDITIONS
• World
• Conditions
• Economic
• Conditions
• Government
• Regulations
• Unions
• Technology
• ORGANIZATIONAL
• CONDITIONS
• Nature of the
• Organization
• Nature of the
• Work
• EMPLOYEE
• CONDITIONS
• Abilities (KSA)

• EFFICIENCY
• Organization
• Employee
• EQUITY
• Organization
• Employee

PLANNING STAFFING DEVELOPMENT EMPLOYEE/UNION RE
LATIONS COMPENSATION
EFFICIENCY EQUITY
2. THE DIAGNOSTIC MODEL George Milkovich John
Boudreau
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2. Diagnostic Model - External Environmental
Scanning

• Environmental Scanning (Assess Environment)
• The systematic monitoring of the major external
  forces influencing the organization.
• Economic factors general and regional conditions
• Competitive trends new processes, services, and
  innovations
• Technological changes robotics and office
  automation
• Political and legislative issues laws and
  administrative rulings
• Social concerns child care and educational
  priorities
• Demographic trends age, composition, and literacy

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3. Internal Organizational Analysis
Culture
Competencies
Internal Analysis
Composition
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Scanning the Internal Environment

• Cultural Audits
• Audits of the culture and quality of work life in
  an organization.
• How do employees spend their time?
• How do they interact with each other?
• Are employees empowered?
• What is the predominant leadership style of
  managers?
• How do employees advance within the organization?

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4. Determining Required Employee Skill Mix

• Core Competencies
• Integrated knowledge sets within an organization
  that distinguish it from its competitors and
  deliver value to customers.
• Sustained competitive advantage through people is
  achieved if these human resources
• Are valuable.
• Are rare and unavailable to competitors.
• Are difficult to imitate.
• Are organized for synergy.

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5. Formulating Strategy (Setting Objectives)

• Strategy Formulation
• Moving from simple analysis to devising a
  coherent course of action.
• SWOT analysis
• A comparison of strengths, weaknesses,
  opportunities, and threats for strategy
  formulation purposes.
• Use the strengths of the organization to
  capitalize on opportunities, counteract threats,
  and alleviate internal weaknesses.

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Corporate Strategy
Growth and Diversification
Mergers and Acquisitions
Corporate Strategy
Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures
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Setting Business Strategy

• Value Creation
• What the firm adds to a product or service by
  virtue of making it the amount of benefits
  provided by the product or service once the costs
  of making it are subtracted.
• Low-cost strategy competing on productivity and
  efficiency
• Keeping costs low to offer an attractive price to
  customers (relative to competitors).
• Differentiation strategy compete on added value
• Involves providing something unique and
  distinctive to customers that they value.

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Functional Strategy Ensuring Alignment

• External Fit (or External Alignment)
• Focuses on the connection between the business
  objectives and the major initiatives in HR.
• Internal Fit (or Internal Alignment)
• Aligning HR practices with one another to
  establish a configuration that is mutually
  reinforcing.

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6. Applying Human Resource Activities
Forecasting A Critical Element of Planning

• Forecasting involves
• forecasting the demand for labor
• forecasting the supply of labor
• balancing supply and demand considerations.

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Model of HR Forecasting
FORECASTING DEMAND

• Considerations
• Product/service demand
• Technology
• Financial resources
• Absenteeism/turnover
• Organizational growth
• Management philosophy

• Techniques
• Trend analysis
• Managerial estimates
• Delphi technique

BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND

• (Shortage) Recruitment
• Full-time
• Part-time
• Recalls

• Techniques
• Staffing tables
• Markov analysis
• Skills inventories
• Management inventories
• Replacement charts
• Succession planning

• External Considerations
• Demographic changes
• Education of the workforce
• Labor mobility
• Government policies
• Unemployment rate

• (Surplus) Reductions
• Layoffs
• Terminations
• Demotions
• Retirements

FORECASTING SUPPLY
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Applying Human Resource ActivitiesDetermining
Types of Employees

• Core knowledge workers
• Employees who have firm-specific skills that are
  directly linked to the companys strategy.
• Example Senior software programmer
• Traditional job-based employees
• Employees with skills to perform a predefined job
  that are quite valuable to a company, but not
  unique.
• Example Security guard

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Applying Human Resource Activities Determining
Types of Employees

• Contract labor
• Employees whose skills are of less strategic
  value and generally available to all firms.
• Example General electrician
• Alliance/partners
• Individuals and groups with unique skills, but
  those skills are not directly related to a
  companys core strategy.
• Example Independent product label designer

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McKinseys 7-S Model
Source McKinsey Company
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7. Strategy Implementation

• Taking Action Reconciling Supply and Demand
• Balancing demand and supply considerations
• Forecasting business activities (trends)
• Locating applicants
• Organizational downsizing
• Reducing headcount
• Making layoff decisions
• Seniority or performance?
• Labor agreements

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8. Evaluation and Assessment

• Evaluation and Assessment Issues
• Benchmarking The process of comparing the
  organizations processes and practices with those
  of other companies
• Human capital metrics
• Assess aspects of the workforce
• HR metrics
• Assess the performance of the HR function itself

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Measuring Strategic Alignment

• Strategy Mapping and the Balanced Scorecard
• Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
• A measurement framework that helps managers
  translate strategic goals into operational
  objectives
• financial
• customer
• processes
• learning

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Balanced Scorecard
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Ensuring Strategic Flexibility for the Future

• Organizational Capability
• Capacity of the organization to act and change in
  pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage.
• Coordination flexibility
• The ability to rapidly reallocate resources to
  new or changing needs.
• Resource flexibility
• Having human resources who can do many different
  things in different ways.