Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Examinee ID. 01-EDD-2-007 Date: 0919-21

Course/Major: EDD-EM

Read the following questions below which contains ideas or knowledge about human
resource management. Study each question and its sub questions carefully.

1. The current global environment has witnessed the growing importance of Human
Resource Management in both business and public life. The turbulent social climate
brought in the liberalization, globalization, and fast changing technologies, growth in
knowledge and advances in information technologies, growth in knowledge and
advances in information technologies is offering managers a complex and
challenging situation. To be able to meet globally relevant standards, social
organization should adjust to the demands of these competitive era.
A. What are the implications of the preceding circumstances on the programs,
procedures, and practices of human resource managers in organization?
B. How should human resource managers address the challenges of the above
scenario to render their organizations effectively relevantly and sustainably
C. What should human resource managers do to accomplish the vision, mission
and goals of their organizations and attain competitive advantages?

A. Human resource management greatly affect by liberalization, globalization and

fast changing technologies. For example, the industrial revolution is replacing
human manpower with robots and different machineries. This means less job for
the people, because the capitalist would choose machines over human, robots
do not complaints, no leave, no absences and most important is it can do the job
with high accuracy and consistency.

B. Human resource managers cannot do anything about changes, because change

is inevitable, whether we like it or not changes like globalization and
advancement in technology will surely come. Although there is something a
human resource manager can do, to ensure that his/her workforce and their
welfare are properly taking care of, giving them the right remuneration and
benefits, giving them seminars and trainings, and give the employees a chance
to grow professionally.
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 C. To accomplish the mission and vision of the company and to attain competitive
advantage, human resource managers must give importance to its employee
giving then the proper treatment they deserve, whether they are a low rank
employee or high rank official of the company. Human resource is the most
important assets of the company, that is why a good human resource manager
should be knowledgeable.

2. Human Resource Management and its concepts have its breakthrough in

management literature in the 80s. It was also during this period when the North
American Industry was threatened by the competition of the rapidly expanding and
highly efficient Japanese industry. However, two different areas in research namely:
the strategic development field and human relations stream dynamically interplayed
to revolutionize the HRM discipline in the 21st Century.
A. What are the characteristics of the Japanese management traditions which
set it apart from the North American industry management?
B. How did strategic management and human relation fields strengthen the
human resource management discipline in the 21st century?
C. Discuss the main argument that human resources are the strategic
organizational asset and a base for competitive advantages

A. The characteristics of Japanese management tradition that set apart from north
American industry management is that Japanese people do not tolerate
discrimination. Japanese people are not discriminate in their workers whether
employees have different sexual orientation or beliefs. Another is training,
Japanese industry invest in their employees, they send their employee for
schooling and upgrade their knowledge and skills, and in return, the skills they
earned can be very useful in the company. That’s a win-win situation, an
example of good human resource management. The company will invest in their
employee and in the end the return of investment will be quadruple or even
fivefold. Also, Japanese management practices believes in seniority that they
value every employee.
B. Strategic management in the 21st century strengthen human resource
management because it provides overall direction by developing plans and
policies designed to achieve objectives of the company and then allocating
resources to implement the plans.
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 On the other hand, human relation strengthens human resource management
because it is based on the idea that employees are motivated not only by
financial rewards but also by the range of social factors like for example good
harmonious relationship and feeling of belongingness. In the 21st century setting
its more on give and take, if you take care of your workers, they will take care of
you. The life of the company depends on its human capital.

C. Human resources are the organization’s assets because it is the manpower that
give life to a company, from small workers up to the top-level management, all of
them have their own part and contribution to the company

3. Human Resource Management is a long-established task within the government’s

management framework. Through this task, the government meet its obligation to be
a staff to give their best to help the government serve the community. The need to
respond to changing community expectations means that task of managing our staff
better is more important than ever. Considering the importance of Government
Human Resource Management, make a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and
Threats (SWOT) analysis of your school’s human resource.

SWOT Analysis of LSPU Human Resource

Strength – The LSPU Human Resource believes that each employee disserves a
chance to grow professionally so they offer seminars and trainings.
Weakness – I think the weakness of LSPU Human Resource is that it cannot give
the proper training to each employee per discipline, maybe due to a
large number of employees, they can only give trainings and
seminars in generic form. For example, all employees across
campuses need trainings in research.
Opportunity – The LSPU opportunity is that they have a bright employee that
someday will become its employees that eventually contributes to the
workforce of LSPU.
Treats – The treats of LSPU human resource is that more than or maybe half of the
lspu employees are not permanent, some are part timers and even
job order for a very long period of time.

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