Executing a strategy $($Connect$/$Perform$)$

Use your knowledge of strategic HR management to answer the following question.

The vice president of HR at a telecommunications firm is making a presentation to the senior management team about how HR can utilize human capital to support the execution of the company$$s strategy. What point should the vice president of HR include in her presentation?

HR$$s role is to leverage architecture actors to support strategy execution.

HR$$s role is to leverage agility factors to support strategy execution.

Effective execution is about creating a process that combines human and organizational capital.

HR$$s role is to focus on maximizing employee engagement and an effective corporate culture.

In the following table, identify the order of each step in assessing the horizontal fit of HR practices.

Step

Order

Managers identify the key workforce objectives they hope to achieve. Often, this information can come from the people$/$learning cell of the Balanced Scorecard and might include loyalty, customer service, productivity, and creativity.

Managers evaluate each HR practice on a scale of $5($not supportive$)$ to $5($supportive$).$

Managers identify each of the HR practices used to elicit or reinforce the workforce objectives $($job design, staffing, training, appraisal, compensation, and so on$).$

Use your knowledge of strategic HR management to answer the following question.

Senior management at a computer hardware manufacturer needs to enhance the company$$s emphasis on execution of strategy, especially in its engineering and manufacturing units. The action plan that management created to enhance the company$$s effectiveness with strategy execution placed emphasis on building an organizational system composed of systems and processes that were focused and streamlined in order to maximize organizational performance. Based on the $4$A framework of execution capability, the action plan of management emphasizes which element of strategy execution?

Agility

Alignment

Architecture

Ability