Application Case

Siemens Builds a Strategy$-$Oriented HR System

Siemens is a $150-$year$-$old German company, but its not the company it was even a few years ago. Untl recenty, Siemens focused on producing electrical products. Today the firm has diversfied into software, engineering, and services. It is also global, with more than $400,000$ employees working in $190$ countries. in other works, Siemens became a world leader by pursuing a corporate stategy that emphasized diversifying into high$-$fech products and services, and doing so on a gobal basis.

With a corporate strategy the that, human resource management plays a big role at Siemens. Sophisticated engineering and services require more focus on employee selection, training, and compensation than in the average firm, and globatiation requires delivering these senvices globally. Sieneps ams up the basic themes of its HR strategy in several points. These include:

A living company is a learning company. The high$-$tech nature of Siemens' business means that employees must be able to learn on a continuing basis. Siemens uses its system of combined classroom and hands$-$on apprenticeship training around the world to help faclitate this. It also offers employees extensive continuing education and management development.

Global teamwork is the key to developing and using all the potential of the firm's human resources. Because it is so important for employees throughout Siemens to feel free to work

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