Ikea and the human resource management
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Ikea is an international retailer which has set up outlets which are running successfully all over the world for the last twenty five years. Today Ikea is an undeniable leader in the home product industry in the United States, Asia, Europe and Middle East, thanks to an innovative strategy which...
A job interview: positional bargaining 4 steps method
Étude de cas - 21 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
This job interview is between the general director of Magic Screen Mrs Sandy Ryan and the candidate Miss Laura Durand who is looking out for a job. The job interview gives the potential employee and potential employer a chance to understand about each other. On one hand, the objective of the...
Human Resources
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Starbucks is a corporation of 92,000 employees. It has been ranked in 2006, by the fortune magazine as one of the best companies to work for. In this report we will study the overall organization of the Starbucks corporation. Through this document we will use information from the courses, and...
International human resources management: A comparison between the USA and China
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
At times of globalization, organizations have to face a business environment which involves quick responses to change, such as new laws or social trends, in order not to expire (Gibson, 1989). It is evident that only people, and not machines, are able to anticipate these changes and set up an...
International strategic frameworks: A case study of Unilever 2008
Étude de cas - 14 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
According to Stonehouse and al (2004: 142) ‘the macro environment is the part of the environment over which the business can rarely exert any direct influence but to which it must respond'. The essential framework to critically analyzed Unilever's external business environment is the PESTEL...
An assessment of the usefulness of human resource planning, in Rexel
Étude de cas - 33 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
The human resource planning (HRP) is a problematical area, in particular, during the phases of disorder and confusion within the business environment, which can provoke instability. Thus, hesitation is created among the need of planning and the complexity of forecast. Although this complexity,...
Suicide at work in France and Japan
Étude de cas - 25 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Bad working conditions can affect people and lead them to commit suicide. For example, in France between 300 and 400 suicides per year are directly linked to working conditions. Through poor working conditions we mean three major trends, which exert a bad pressure on the way people work. The...
The legislative framework impacting on HRM in South Africa
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
No organization exists in isolation and HRM at the organizational level must be contextualized in terms of the environment external to the organization", say Swanepoel et al (2005: 75). An organization lives in a social, economic, political, legal and technological environment. In this way, it is...
Compare HRM models of 2 or 3 different countries or continents
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Raymond Miles introduced the term ‘human resources' in 1965 after the evidence that human beings and human relations were changing in the company's environment. Human resources is considered as an ‘umbrella' gathering several different approaches rather than a single theory. All these...
Memo Human resources: The Lidl case (2008)
Étude de cas - 18 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
The Concept of purchasing power has been highly debated in France for the last few months. Because of a recent and substantial increase in prices, grocery retailers have been under suspicion of being the main engine of this inflation. Why have prices been increasing so quickly in the last few...
Reflective report and comparison between human resources systems in the USA and Japan
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
I was in an international group composed of seven people from China, Sri Lanka, England and Germany. As a French student, it was a new experience for me to work with such a group. We decided to compare HR systems in two countries from which none of us come from. The idea of this presentation was...
A Comparison of the Human Resources Policies and Practices of Germany and the USA
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
The aim of this essay is to compare the Human Resources practices of the US and Germany, to highlight the reasons behind these differences, and to analyze the evidence these differences provide to the convergence/divergence debate. These countries have been chosen because the US is considered as...
Why should a company improve its employees' working conditions? Inquiry on Bouygues construction
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
How can business improve people's lives? That is the issue of this inaugural seminar, and we decided to study a sector where there are real risks for employees, such as the building trade. On this way we chose Bouygues Construction, because we were sure that such a worldwide company would provide...
Final Case Study Assignment British Petroleum
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
What was BP's overall strategy with respect to organizational processes since Horton's appointment as CEO and through Simon's term? Did this strategy focus on people management and, if yes, in what ways? Was it successful or unsuccessful? How? Before Horton's arrival as CEO in...
Human resource management at - Telekomunikacija polska
Étude de cas - 22 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Every company is different. What defines this difference beside the product or service provided, is the general mission of the company, strategy, organizational design, finance management and many other things. Even though all of those things can always be imitated by the competitors there is...
Francotours: A human resources strategy
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Organizational Development is a term used to define the growing process of an organization. An organization's successful development and evolution depends on its ability to create the following: a vision (or identity) that clearly defines its purpose; the leadership capacity to clearly...
Human resources strategy, SIEMENS
Étude de cas - 20 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Electrical and electronic engineering constitute the backbone and hence the identity of the SIEMENS group which celebrated 160 years of existence in 2007. This company has several basic trade segments such as: energy, industry, telecommunications, information, transport, and health etc. In 2007,...
Human resources final case study assignment British Petroleum
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
We will analyze the case "British Petroleum: Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization". During this analysis, we will explain how different management styles are practiced in this company. Two different CEOs, Robert Horton and David Simon, succeeded this British oil company. We...
La politique de recrutement de Michelin
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Toute pratique de Gestion des Ressources Humaines doit être au service des quatre fonctionnalités suivantes : acquisition, intégration, allocation et performance des ressources humaines. C'est donc sous ces quatre dimensions que nous allons étudier les principes de la politique de recrutement de...
Management of international human resources: Coca Cola
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
According to Armstrong in 2006 "International human resource management is the process of employing, developing and rewarding people in global organisations". However, nowadays, one of the most complex challenges for a MNC, across the globe, is the management of human resources because of...
International human resource management
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
One of the few certainties in this uncertain world is the growing influence of internationalization on organizations, both large and small. There are increasing numbers of internationally operating organizations and internationally operating employees. The subject of international human resource...
El proceso de adaptación de Motorola en el marco de una implantación en Japón
Étude de cas - 16 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Caso que expone el proceso de adaptación de Motorola en el marco de una implantación en Japón. Cuáles son los principales conflictos presentes en dicha empresa? Cómo va a reaccionar Motorola, empresa estadounidense, frente a la cultura japonesa? Cuál es el papel de los recursos humanos?
General Motors corporation
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
General Motors Corp. was founded in 1908 in Flint, Michigan. Today it's the world's largest automaker. The company has also been regarded as the sales leader at the global industrial level for 76 years. Due to GM's embarkment into continuous acquisitions and the firm concentrating on...
Is it more interesting to work in France or in Ireland?
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
For a long time Ireland has had a lower level of standard of living, in comparison to the other countries of EU, but this situation will not last long because great economic expansion in Ireland will be followed by emigration of highly skilled migrant workers in all sector and coming from diverse...
