HRM in companies: Ryanair, IBM, Google, IKEA

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The best-fit approach underlines the importance of assuring that HR strategies are performances. This takes into account, through the circumstances of the organization's culture, operational processes and external environment. Thanks to that, HR strategies consider two points, the organisation itself and its employees. However, this kind of HRM cannot be universally applied because it depends on the context. So you cannot apply it for all the HR systems.
According to Schuler and Jackson (1987), the business performances will facilitate the application of HR practices. The cost leadership, quality enhancement and innovation supported their choices of competitive strategy. Under this model, organizations need to work out the required employee behaviours to implement a chosen competitive strategy and devise supporting HR practices to increase the motivation in the workforce.

Then, following the principles discussed above we can establish links between corporate culture, corporate strategy and HRM. First, the company's culture can be the performance. Performance could be established by the HR supporting. Then, we can see that the HR supporting depends of three points: the cost leadership, quality enhancement and innovation. After that, we can link the HRM and corporate culture point with the corporate strategy. In fact, thanks to the performance, the cost leadership, the quality enhancement and the innovation, the company can have a competitive strategy.

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[...] The reading of human resources management books gave us the understanding needed to transcribe the global ideas. Then, we found other models which we did not see in class. Thanks to these approaches, we have different points of view from different authors, to compare to our own. Support our researches; find others criticisms with some examples of companies which are using different models. Interpretation of this assignment We saw in this assignement the aim to establish the links between the HRM models, the strategy and the corporate culture. [...]

[...] Indeed, they shape the workforce through those practices. And because those HPWP's are based on the shaping of a certain culture which brings more productivity, it is yet not compatible with some cost-based strategy (cost leadership). Indeed, such practices are really costly and time-consuming, as everyone who interviewed for Google could say (see part 2). Thus, such a soft HR Management is better suited in companies seeking for innovation and/or quality, companies seeking to attract and retain the best elements. [...]

[...] It is not enough to rely on cost- reduction, innovation and quality-enhancement strategy in the Schuler and Jackson model. To finish, there is another problem about the employee interest. This model does not care about the legal requirements the prevailing social norms. Therefore, they forget the very basis of GHR, if employees are unhappy or do not work because the system is based on too hard HRM dramatic consequences can fight. Therefore, these three points we illustrate an inconsistency between the principle of expected competitive strategy and methods used. [...]

[...] This had many advantages because each part was able to evolve by itself, take the time that they needed. It was a gain of time for the company and improved the communication inside each group of IBM. Lou Gerstner, the IBM's CEO from 1993 until 2002, announced that the rule of lifetime employment would be cancelled. The aim was the mobility, perpetual questioning, etc. With many competitors and the growth of the market, companies have to work in short-term, to keep an eye on this market. [...]

[...] Furthermore, when a company wants to fire some workers they have to give an certain period notice. But when the product is declining, the company have no time to adapt its staff/size. Furthermore, when a manager predict that the product will be decline, he is tending to decrease the production of this product and decrease the price of this product but sometimes it's generate an increasing of the demand. So by this way, this modification has an influence on the market of this product. [...]