H9SMHC: Human resource professionals and managers operate within increasingly complex and changing organizational: Strategic management in the Human Capital Case Study, NCI, Ireland

Learning Outcomes:-

1. Identify and evaluate the principal environments in which contemporary organizations operate.
2. Recognize and critically debate the business environment within which HR professionals work.
3. Explain and critically evaluate environmental factors shaping organizational and HR strategies.
4. Recognize and critically discuss the market and competitive environments of organizations.
5. Explore and critically discuss globalization and international forces and how they influence organizational and HR strategies and HR practices.
6. Identify and assess demographic, societal, and technological trends in the context of their impact on Business and HR strategies and HR practices.
7. Review and debate the range and significance of Government policies and legal regulations and their impact on business strategy, HR strategy, and HR practices.

Introduction

Human resource professionals and managers operate within increasingly complex and changing organizational and contextual circumstances, whether in the market, public, or ‘third’ sectors and whatever the size of their organizations or the types of goods or services these enterprises produce for their customers or clients.

This module provides learners, first, with an understanding of the principal internal and external environmental contexts of contemporary organizations, including the managerial and business context, within which managers, HR professionals, and workers interact with conditions of environmental turbulence, change, and uncertainty. Second, the module examines how those leading organizations respond to these dynamic environmental contexts.

Third, the module indicates how leaders in organizations, and those in the HR function, and line managers with HR responsibilities, need to recognize and acknowledge that corporate decisions and HR choices are not always shaped by managers alone. They are also shaped by internal and external forces beyond their immediate control.

Having studied this module, learners will be aware that managers and HR professionals in different types of organizations, in responding to their internal, business, and external environmental contexts, not only have opportunities and choices when taking organizational and HR decisions but also face some constraints on their autonomy in determining their futures.