With significant operations around the world, Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is truly a
With significant operations around the world, Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is truly a global company. Its most significant international operations are in the European Union (EU) countries and Asia. Growth in China has been particularly rapid over the last five years. Because of the highly technical nature of its business, SEIIC has had a difficult time getting the people with the right skills in the right places and then keeping their skills up to date. The company has worked hard at identifying and hiring local talent, but the efforts have not been entirely successful. To the extent that it can, it has tried to accommodate local needs in its HRM system. However, it has found it difficult to carry out some of its initiatives because of the different ways of working in different areas. It has been difficult for people who transfer from one area to another to deal with the different HRM policies and procedures.
As a part of the overall review of HRM operations, the company is interested in identifying key factors that differentiate its global and domestic operations and in understanding how it can develop a more global approach to HRM.
- Summarize key details about the case to date. What are the most important issues affecting SEIIC’s HRM? Your summary should be no more than one to two paragraphs. (Imagine that you are riding down the elevator with SEIIC’s CEO and she asks you to provide a high-level summary of what you’ve discovered so far. You have thirty seconds from the time she gets on the elevator until the time she gets off. What would you say?)
- With a focus primarily on the EU and Asian areas of operations,assess key factors that SEIIC should pay attention to in revising its approach to international HRM. Consider, for example, the cultural, economic system, and legal and labor relations similarities and differences in these areas of operation when compared to domestic (United States) operations.
- Analyze how these differences between EU, Asian, and domestic areas of operation may affect specific HRM activities including recruiting and staffing, training and development, compensation and benefits, performance management, and labor relations.
- Finally, justify how SEIIC should approach implementing HRM around the globe. Should it try to provide essentially a standardized, global HRM system or a highly specialized HRM system that is tailored to each location or region where it operates? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and which would you recommend?
Submission Details:
- Submit your six– to eight-page in APA style.
· Due by 1/6/25 at 8:30pm CST
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Cascio, W. F. (2021). Managing human resources: Productivity, quality of work life, profits (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-1260681352
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin
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This information credible sources requirement supports the Project Assignment details and rubric.
To earn the maximum, score in each section, that demonstrates knowledge of the topics: A) "exceeding the expectations" = 3 + different credible sources intext cited for each section per the rubric. B) Sufficiently supports = use of 2 different intext cited sources per section. C) Weakly supported credible sources used = 1 intext cited source D) Lacked credible sources = No sources intext cited 1. Research needs to go beyond the course textbook or course lecture notes. 2. Sources published, authored, and less than 6 years old. 3. APA guidelines must be applied to intext cite information where used in the response.
Example1: A response has no intext citations but does have a reference section will be penalized in each section and graded as “Lacked credible sources” – as this demonstrates lack of APA application and potential plagiarism – as information was obtained from sources but no credit given to the authors. Example2, the scope section can be written simply as a scope statement. However, to use information from credible sources to support the response: information can be used from sources that support scope importance, what it is, how it benefits a project, negative effects if no scope is developed.
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WK5 Final Project Assignment
The assignment has 6 main discrete parts…each part has multiple sections that need to be addressed. Make sure to address all parts of the assignment in full expanded details with supporting credible sources Make sure you review the assignment details and the expanded grade rubric to help you address all points. Use external credible sources to support your paper – beyond the course text and lecture notes. Make use of APA guidelines to format you documents: effective sub headings, a title page, intext citations, full reference section. As you complete the project assignment make sure to carry out research and make use of credible sources in all sections of the assignment.
Make use of 3+ credible different sources in each section of your response . Make sure to expand your research beyond the course lecture notes and course text book.
For this assignment there are 6 separate content sections, Sub headings to follow are:
Case Summary Assessment of Key Factors for Operation in the EU. Assessment of Key Factors of Operation in the Asian Region. Comparison of Key Similarities of Operation between the EU, Asian, and USA. Differences Affecting the 5 areas of HRM in the three Regions. Recommendation and Justification for SEIIC’s HRM Approach References
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Week 5 Project
With significant operations around the world, Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is truly a global company. Its most significant international operations are in the European Union (EU) countries and Asia. Growth in China has been particularly rapid over the last five years. Because of the highly technical nature of its business, SEIIC has had a difficult time getting the people with the right skills in the right places and then keeping their skills up to date. The company has worked hard at identifying and hiring local talent, but the efforts have not been entirely successful. To the extent that it can, it has tried to accommodate local needs in its HRM system. However, it has found it difficult to carry out some of its initiatives because of the different ways of working in different areas. It has been difficult for people who transfer from one area to another to deal with the different HRM policies and procedures.
As a part of the overall review of HRM operations, the company is interested in identifying key factors that differentiate its global and domestic operations and in understanding how it can develop a more global approach to HRM.
· Summarize key details about the case to date. What are the most important issues affecting SEIIC’s HRM? Your summary should be no more than one to two paragraphs. (Imagine that you are riding down the elevator with SEIIC’s CEO and she asks you to provide a high-level summary of what you’ve discovered so far. You have thirty seconds from the time she gets on the elevator until the time she gets off. What would you say?)
· With a focus primarily on the EU and Asian areas of operations, assess key factors that SEIIC should pay attention to in revising its approach to international HRM. Consider, for example, the cultural, economic system, and legal and labor relations similarities and differences in these areas of operation when compared to domestic (United States) operations.
· Analyze how these differences between EU, Asian, and domestic areas of operation may affect specific HRM activities including recruiting and staffing, training and development, compensation and benefits, performance management, and labor relations.
· Finally, justify how SEIIC should approach implementing HRM around the globe. Should it try to provide essentially a standardized, global HRM system or a highly specialized HRM system that is tailored to each location or region where it operates? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and which would you recommend?
Submission Details:
· Submit your six– to eight-page paper in APA style.
1. Due by 1/6/25 at 8:30pm CST
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Cascio, W. F. (2021). Managing human resources: Productivity, quality of work life, profits (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-1260681352
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin
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Human Resource Management Analysis for Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC)
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Human Resource Management Analysis for Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC)
Case Summary
Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is facing significant challenges in human resource management, particularly in meeting customer service expectations and retaining valuable employees. The company's CEO emphasizes that its most critical asset is its human capital, recognizing that without skilled employees, the organization has limited value to offer customers (Cascio, 2021). The current organizational landscape reveals critical issues in training, performance management, and career development that require strategic intervention to enhance employee satisfaction, retention, and overall organizational effectiveness.
Training Trends and Pros/Cons
Micro-Learning Approach
Micro-learning can be described as the concept that creates a revolutionary approach to staff training, destroying the conventional paradigms. This method is about the presentation of training content in short areas that can be ingested within short bursts of time. Among others, Dachner et al. (2021) view micro-learning as a promising approach to the learning need of the modern workforce for more flexible just-in-time learning.
The strengths of micro-learning are even stronger: Individuals can enroll in targeted learning courses that serve to close identified knowledge gaps, without detracting from an employee’s normal tasks. The approach blends well with most learning styles to promote personal learning environments. Students can work through material independently return to a given subject multiple times and combine classroom work with other tasks.
However, there is always a challenge associated with this method of teaching. The shortness of micro-learning lessons may also mean that learners master small parts of a topic without having a big picture. The danger is that the breadth of the fully integrated, more conventionally conceived distant training programs may be lost. It is therefore relevant that for organizations to set down depth and rich or meaningful learning, they have to design their micro-learning modules well.
Blended Learning Programs
Blended learning appears as a highly developed innovation that mediates between face-to-face and online education styles. Piwowar-Sulej (2021) states the benefits of integrating face-to-face instruction with teaching massively open online courses. This approach acknowledges the fact that today’s working professional has different learning styles and by use of technology, makes learning more effective and flexible.
The benefits of an integration of traditional classroom learning and technology-based learning are numerous. It provides affordable training solutions, decreases complexities that are characteristic of conventional face-to-face learning and provides immense flexibility for employees. While it is integrated with digital components, learning progress can be monitored, content customized to the receiving organizations, and general knowledge disseminated across the organization.
Limitations consist in the first investment in technology and when it comes to content, the matter must be highly developed to be disseminated by this technology. Some employees might not feel comfortable using the digital learning platforms hence they need to be provided with some level of orientation and sensitization to use them.
Experiential and Simulation-Based Training
The concept of experiential learning covers one of the most significant changes in transitioning from traditional pedagogy to an active and constructive approach. Litvinenko et al. (2020) state that simulation-based training offers unique chances for value-based skills enhancement. By doing so, one can familiarize the employees with challenging issues at their workplace and hence can work on them in an environment that is mostly contained and supportive.
The major strength of this approach pertains to the application of the gap between theory and practice. The subordinates can learn how to address critical issues, make their own decisions, and feel competent in dealing with challenges. Training helps build competence without exposing individuals to risks that can be associated with errors made in the course of practice.
Some of the difficulty of implementing involves the substantial efforts needed to create realistic and effective simulations while the other aspect involves the effort of creating authentic scenarios for conception across the different job types.
Training Best Practice Justification
For SEIIC, therefore, a needs-based and integrated approach to training is essential. This strategy and knowledge management strategy involves integrating the use of micro-learning modules, simulation-based experiences, and instructional methods in training the employees. They achieve this while focusing on gaps within the company such as customer service and technical skills.
With the help of the flexible structure of the presented model and the use of technologies, SEIIC can develop a learning process that will help the organization create a climate for continuous learning. The strategy advances the idea by Harsch and Festing (2020) concerning the need to establish mobile talent management capacities that stress flexibility and trainability.
Performance Management Trends and Pros/Cons
Continuous Performance Feedback
One of the major changes that have occurred in performance management is the introduction of constant feedback systems. Stahl et al. (2020) have framed this shift as a profound paradigm shift in the practices of employee evaluation, from the conventional annual check and balance system of appraisal to more operative, continuous cycle and cyclical procedures.
Overall the approach has many benefits, the performance can be monitored timely and work environments can be made more responsive. Managers can provide instructions directly which permits the staff to correct themselves and build competency on the job. This method minimizes the stress normally experienced when conducting annual performance assessments and fosters a positive performance management environment.
Performance-Driven Data Analytics
Cascio (2021) moves the focus to how far data performance analytics are critical in today’s human resource management. These advanced technological solutions offer unique and rather superior ways of managing employees’ performance and prospects for performance enhancement thereby promoting objective decisions of employee talent.
The use of big data has significant operational benefits as it uncovers sophisticated performance trends, skills deficiencies, and future performance trends (Adeniran et al., 2024). ML specifically offers non-performance-based information that would supplement the more holistic and futuristic talent management strategies.
However, when constructing these technological techniques, organizations should consult analysts and incorporate quantitative analyses whilst also considering the following limitations; the organizations should provide for the flexibility of human judgment and ultimately design ways of behaving and managing that do not lead to a complete neglect of privacy when collecting performance data.
Competency-Based Performance Management
Competency-based performance management may therefore be considered an optimal model for looking at employee performance from a competency perspective. According to Gupta et al. (2019), this is attested to the fact that cuts across conventional more of measurement which has sought to determine merit based on set standard metrics of performance but rather targets; the behavioral execution of tasks that are congruent with the organization’s strategy.
The approach offers understandable and unambiguous performance expectations since the key competencies have clear and tangible objectives. It fosters personal development because it provides recommendations on the kinds of behavior and practices that enable organizations to thrive. Being specific to the employee, this method of assessing training needs directly associates the training as well as development interventions with overall organizational objectives.
The establishment of such a system inevitably calls for the commitment of a huge amount of effort in constructing dependable, adaptable competency frameworks that can encompass the variegated professions of relevance to heterogeneous contexts within an organization. The problem here is how to maintain coherent, significant performance measures across the function and organization.
Performance Management Best Practice Justification
The performance management approach of Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is a combination of technological analytics and an appropriate feedback system that is periodic and detailed. It acknowledges the analytical/rational and also subjective nature of performance as a form of this model introduces a positive cultural approach to performance measurement.
They include feedback systems, descriptive measurement, development, evaluation based on competencies, and development map-focusing feedback systems. By doing so, SEIIC can effectively respond to its current issues of employee turnover and the necessity to improve the quality of service provided to the customers (Stahl et al., 2020) . It establishes a more positive and development-focused culture in performance management that fosters POS and ‘fits’ employee growth with organizational goals and development.
Career Management Trends and Pros/Cons
Personalized Career Development Pathways
Organizations today have shifted more towards customized approaches to career management. According to Dachner et al. (2021), a personalized career journey matches employee desires with organizational requirements for enhanced talent development. Customized career paths best signify the ‘people management’ value of development, with a positive impact on the levels of enthusiasm and turnover. Developing human capital needs should be set as the goals and objectives in the rather flexible development plan to achieve a more professional seeking that nurtures talent and fosters organizational goals and profit-making too.
Cross-Functional Mobility and its Imperative Form – Skill Diversification
Cross-functional mobility outlines a unique concept of people management and organizational flexibility. Piwowar-Sulej (2021) suggests that the methodology of fostering multiskill in employees may bring about major strategic benefits. As the case may be, this strategy presents several advantages. Employees get more views of the organization, become more elastic, and acquire various skills. Organizations gain more improved knowledge and understanding and hence more innovation potential and a more flexible workforce. At the organizational level, this means that by unestablishing these departmental siloes, one can come up with more integrate talent environments.
Some of them may comprise issues of altering current team formations and circumstances around organizing employees’ transfers between functional departments. It indicates that organizations require serious frameworks in the evaluation of skills and management of mobility.
Cohort and Development Programs
Regular structured guided training proves to be a strong instrument in professional growth and experience exchange. Harsch & Festing (2020) note that there is much that is logical in the matching of experienced senior staff with young talent. These programs generate prospects for gaining knowledge within the shortest time possible, organizational climate sophistication, and better ways of developing the talent pool. They found that mentorship encourages the transmission of information within organizations, helps practitioners transition into new roles, and, in general, supplies the acquisition of valuable organizational information that cannot be taught in the classroom.
Mentorship initiatives draw their efficiency from the competent pairing of the mentor and the mentee, subsequent guiding, and, primarily, from an appreciation of personal growth at the workplace. Mentee-mentor relationships will not deliver similar results and should be monitored and varied accordingly.
Career Management Best Practice Justification
Therefore, for Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) career management has to be an integrated affair. The suggested approach involves these suggestions—prescribing different career advancement models that are industry-specific and offering interdepartmental rotation opportunities; secondly, mandating strong and structured mentorship programs. This approach is relevant because it serves to meet a key organizational requirement which is the retention of technical employees with plausible career maps (Dachner et al., 2021; Piwowar-Sulej, 2021).
The proposed model of career management focuses on the learning and development of human capital, as well as on the flexibility of organizational structures. SEIIC should make talent management more vibrant, congruent, and supple; an environment that can largely alter the strategic career development at SEIIC. This strategy addresses the present-day issues in the recruitment and implementation of professional development programs, essentially placing the organization at the forefront of progressive employers, who truly value their employees.
The approach is to maintain sufficient integration that fosters support of self-serving behaviors or objectives, while at the same time attending to broad organizational requirements (Harsch & Festing, 2020). To achieve this, SEIIC needs to adapt portable, IT-sustained career management systems that accommodate learning and skills upgrading together with career advancement. This paper identifies how organizations can build a more innovative, productive, and competitive working force through investment in their greatest resource – human capital.
Conclusion
Human resource management is a crucial area for Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) with several challenges that require attention at the strategic level. When it comes to training, performance management, and career development, the organization can turn its workforce challenges into strengths (Harsch & Festing, 2020; Stahl et al., 2020). The identified interventions support sustained learning, and methodology employing feedback based on employee engagement and talent management – all conforming to findings of modern research in the field of human resource management.
All the proposed approaches are the combination of technological tools and human-centric development of strategies, therefore they create a more approachable location for talent management. If SEIIC considers employees as valuables and invests in them, the company can promote organizational success, boost the rate of employee turnover, and obtain a competitive advantage in the modern dynamic business environment.
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Trends Likely To Affect SEIIC
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Economic and Financial Areas
Economic crisis – This could have an impact on the company by decreasing cash flow from exports, remittances, domestic output, and investments. The Resources Corporation's incapacity to obtain loans has caused their business to collapse. The crisis can have resulted from taking too many risks that did not pay off (Ramin & Omar, A, 2021). Because of the risks, a hole is made in the systems that is hard to patch. Flat real wages, exorbitant CEO compensation in the form of bonuses and salaries, inadequate regulation of the financial industry, and the ensuing rise in inequality and debt-financed consumerism are some of the other factors that contributed to this disaster.
Health coverage expenses – Given all of its rulings and the way it established national programs like Medicare and Medicaid, the government is to blame. Premium costs have increased in response to the growing expense of health insurance. Furthermore, consumers might not have access to sufficient insurance coverage, which would make managing their options more difficult and expensive (Lotz, 2021). Governments may be forced to raise taxes, take on more debt, or reduce spending in other crucial areas like infrastructure and education in order to keep up with the rising costs of health care. This would have a negative impact on economic growth and affect both individuals and businesses. These then have an impact on the employees, management, and beneficiaries of the business.
Legal and Political Areas
Mortgage crisis – The rise in interest rates is making it harder for businesses to borrow enough money, which is making the mortgage situation worse. Buyers who previously would have had difficulty obtaining financing were able to benefit from the market's rapid rise due to increases in accessible mortgage credit. When consumers were able to obtain mortgages when they otherwise would not have been able to, it made the problem worse. Given the existing situation, it will be challenging for the business to provide clients with in-house solutions (Litvinenko et al., 2020). The firm suffered as a direct effect of the crisis, which left client demands unfulfilled. The market was seen negatively by potential homebuyers.
Loss of customers – The company has lost money as a result of a decline in customers brought on by subpar manufacturing and shipping capabilities. Because there isn't any reciprocal communication between the company and its customers, they don't feel valued. The members of the team might not collaborate effectively enough to guarantee that their clients' needs are satisfied and that they continue to have enduring relationships with them (Ramin & Omar, 2021). Let's say the business adopts the current trends and ceases to offer the services that its clients have become accustomed to. Because they will be unhappy with the goods and services the company currently offers, those clients may cease doing business with it entirely.
Social and Cultural Areas
Domestic partnership – Protections against discrimination and benefits coverage have been increased. Partners have improved employee collaboration and made the workplace safer. Some people have the ability to form enduring bonds with their coworkers that continue long after they leave the company. Every employee is aware of their duties and strives to fulfill them as effectively and efficiently as they can.
Technical workers – The growing cost of higher education and the growth of government employment are two reasons contributing to the increased need for technical people. After completing this course, staff members are more aware of the latest developments in the organization and have a deeper understanding of their roles. The organization has to hire new staff members who can pick up and adjust to these new methods of operation because it is also changing the systems it utilizes to conduct business and how it operates (Litvinenko et al., 2020). Another choice is for the business to spend money on training its present employees so they can stay current on the latest developments and contribute to the company's growth. Because they will realize that they have acquired the skills and information necessary to carry out their regular responsibilities effectively, the training will boost participants' self-confidence.
Global and Technological Areas
Access to a new market: The shift in the business's regular activities will necessitate the creation of a new market. The company can reach more consumers and improve its prospects of increasing sales if it can enter new markets (Cascio, 2021). This rise in sales has the potential to increase earnings in addition to enhancing the top line. The company's operations will be impacted
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