Apple, Inc. Strategic Workforce Improvement Plan
External Market Analysis:
• Analyze HRM data trends and issues to identify appropriate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Apple, Inc. from a global perspective.
• Summarize relevant data trends and issues, using research findings among different cultural and organizational perspectives, for both global and domestic applications for Apple, Inc.
Competitive Advantage through Human Capital
• Identify best practices for human capital acquisition, development, and retention.
• Analyze best practices that will enable human capital acquisition, development, and retention for Apple, Inc.
• Analyze current organization practices and their alignment with identified best practices.
• Integrate the HRM and business best practices to propose how you will create or maintain a competitive advantage to meet the challenges of the future global environment of Apple, Inc. industry.
• Analyze the role of the HRM professional in integrating and implementing human capital acquisition, development, and retention best practices in Apple, Inc.
• Provide a rationale for how your best practices and HRM professional's role enable human capital acquisition, development, and retention.
Human Resource Management Legal Issues:
• Examine the legal environment of Apple, Inc and industry and the business and legal practices that ensure compliance, innovation, growth, and sustainability in Apple, Inc.
• Analyze current organization policies and practices and the degree of alignment with legal compliance standards.
• Identify potential problems that may affect successful organizational compliance with legal standards.
• Research and identify prevention strategies that support organizational compliance, growth, and sustainability.
• Provide a rationale for how your prevention strategies support or will support organizational compliance, growth, and sustainability.
Human Resource Role in Organizational Design, Culture, and Change:
• Identify HRM best practices that promote business-centric organizational design, culture, and change.
• Analyze the current culture and business practices of your organization and their alignment with identified best practices.
• Identify potential organizational design, culture, and change-management problems that may affect organizational success.
• Evaluate the role of HRM as a change agent.
• Examine the role of HRM as a business partner.
• Integrate best practices that promote business-centric organizational design, culture, and change to construct an effective model for the HRM professional as a change agent in Apple, Inc.
• Provide a rationale for how your model promotes or will promote business-centric organizational design, culture, and change.
Human Resource Information Systems:
• Identify HRM and business technologies that maximize organizational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and systems integration.
• Analyze best practices of talent management using HRIS, ERP, and/or CRM.
• Analyze current technologies and their current application in Apple, Inc.
• Analyze the use of these technologies to maximize organizational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and systems integration within Apple, Inc.
• Analyze the appropriateness of HRM technologies and best practices to recommend applications and strategies for Apple, Inc., in order to improve organizational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and systems integration.
Oral PowerPoint Presentation:
• Present the HRM data trends and issues from a global perspective that is appropriate to Apple, Inc.
• Discuss the integration of HRM and business best practices to enable human capital acquisition, development, and retention.
• Discuss HRM business and legal practices that ensure organizational compliance, growth, and sustainability.
• Apply HRM practices to promote business-centric organizational design, culture, and change.
• Present how HRM and business technologies maximize organizational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and systems integration for the organization.
• Use the notes section of your PowerPoint to outline the oral component of your presentation.
Strategic Workforce Improvement Plan:
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
• Analyze HRM data trends and issues to identify appropriate strengths of an organization from a global perspective.
• Integrate the HRM and business best practices to propose how to create or maintain a competitive advantage in the global environment.
• Use HRM business and legal practices to ensure organizational compliance, growth, and sustainability.
• Use HRM practices to promote business-centric organizational design, culture, and change.
• Synthesize HRM and business technologies to maximize organizational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and systems integration.