Exam 1: The Challenges of Hrm

Scenario 1.2: HRM Challenges-A Mining Merger Trimack Resources Inc. ,a Western Canada mining company,bought WestStar Mining,an Eastern Canada company.Ray Morrison,the CEO of Trimack Resources Inc.was focused on ensuring the new business revolved around how well the people side of the merger was handled.Ray felt that it was critical that the two businesses integrated their people.Morgan Grant,the CEO of WestStar Mining was focused on managing the complex financial issues of the merger.Morgan felt that it was critical that the financial reports were in order before they could move forward with their strategic plans.The new HRM department immediately began terminating employees when they noticed that there were several situations where two employees were doing the work of one position. -Please refer to Scenario 1.2.What is an example of an HR initiative that would support Morgan's approach to the merger?

IT influences HR by enhancing services to line managers and employees.

What HR process ensures that people in the organization are the right people with the right skills at the right time in the right place?

What are two emerging areas in the field of HRM?

RB Trucking is experiencing an increasingly imbalanced age distribution of their long haul truck drivers and office administration assistants.What does this mean for their future labour force?

Benchmarking looks at the "best practices," in companies they compete with.

LB Brands,a Western Canada marketing company,had grown to 100 employees.Joan Farris the Vice President of Marketing spends much of her day developing and coaching people and helping to solve problems.She has a prescribed employee performance management process.She feels that decisions concerning her employee staffing,training and performance appraisals are her responsibility.Jay Carter,the Vice President of HR,feels that LB Brands must have consistent HR practices and that staffing,training and performance management decisions must be centralized in the HR department. -Please refer to Scenario 1.1.Whose argument is correct?

Which activity is part of a line manager's responsibility?

What are two emerging areas in the field of HRM?

Scenario 1.5: HRM Challenges-Outsourcing Over the past decade CIBC,BMO and RBC financial groups have outsourced some of their human resource services.Recently RBC has brought back several of their HR-related services in-house. -Please refer to Scenario 1.5.How do these financial institutions outsource?

All line managers are people managers and,therefore,have HR responsibilities.

Approximately what percentage of the Canadian working population is self-employed?

Scenario 1.3: HRM Challenges-Staffing Cuts Artic Learning Systems was under pressure to reduce staffing costs and improve productivity.They took advantage of a Canadian federal program involving work-sharing and encouraged people to use any banked overtime.In some cases,employees were working 50% less.SunSystems Learning,in the same industry,was under the same pressures and decided to do an across the board reduction and laid off 50% of their employees based on performance.Both companies' organizational strategic plans indicated significant growth within a year due to new communication technologies and the ability to provide their learning systems globally.They both assess the best practices of other organizations looking for ways to enhance their performance. -Please refer to Scenario 1.3.Which type of change is Artic Learning Systems an example of?

HRM is equivalent to hiring,paying,and training people.

In 2012,Canada began to show signs of economic recovery with a modest growth in GDP of 2 %.

Scenario 1.5: HRM Challenges-Outsourcing Over the past decade CIBC,BMO and RBC financial groups have outsourced some of their human resource services.Recently RBC has brought back several of their HR-related services in-house. -Please refer to Scenario 1.5.What HR services would these financial institutions outsource?

In a recent survey,what did employees cite as a major influence on their decision to stay with an organization?

Employee and labour relations does NOT require managers to recognize individual differences in employees.

Scenario 1.2: HRM Challenges-A Mining Merger Trimack Resources Inc. ,a Western Canada mining company,bought WestStar Mining,an Eastern Canada company.Ray Morrison,the CEO of Trimack Resources Inc.was focused on ensuring the new business revolved around how well the people side of the merger was handled.Ray felt that it was critical that the two businesses integrated their people.Morgan Grant,the CEO of WestStar Mining was focused on managing the complex financial issues of the merger.Morgan felt that it was critical that the financial reports were in order before they could move forward with their strategic plans.The new HRM department immediately began terminating employees when they noticed that there were several situations where two employees were doing the work of one position. -Please refer to Scenario 1.2.Which of the following strategies would the success of the merger be particularly dependent on?

What is an emerging demographic HR issue that is becoming increasingly important to line managers' and human resource managers' future workplaces?