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Human Resources Management
Name:
Instructor:
University attached:
In your analysis of the Human Resources management functions at Lowe's, you discussed
various HR areas, including recruitment and selection, safety, employee relationships, and
performance management.
 Part A: Discuss how Lowe's HR functions, such as recruitment and selection, training
and development, and safety, contribute to the company’s overall strategic goals. Provide
specific examples from the case study to illustrate these functions in action.
 Part B: Evaluate Lowe's approach to cultural diversity and inclusion within its HR
practices. How do the company's diversity strategies align with its mission, vision, and
objectives? Do you think Lowe’s cultural diversity initiatives effectively contribute to the
company's long-term success? Why or why not?
Word count requirement: 1200–1500 words.

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Contents
Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 3
Strategic Functions of HR............................................................................................................... 4
Recruitment & Selection ............................................................................................................. 4
Safety........................................................................................................................................... 5
Relationship with Employees...................................................................................................... 5
Performance Management........................................................................................................... 6
Benefits and Compensation......................................................................................................... 6
Compliance.................................................................................................................................. 6
Training and Development.......................................................................................................... 6
Strategy based Human Resources ................................................................................................... 7
Lowe's Cultural Diversity Characteristics................................................................................... 8
Lowe's Motivation Strategies...................................................................................................... 8
HR Planning and Organization's Objectives ............................................................................. 10
HR Purpose Statement .................................................................................................................. 10
HR Mission Statement .................................................................................................................. 11
HR goals.................................................................................................................................... 11
Action Plan for each Functional Area........................................................................................... 13

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Executive Summary
Human resource as a strategic partner is beneficial for the organization to maintain a
diverse pool of talented employees and retain talented people in the company. As a strategic
partner, human resource department supports, motivates and engages employees through
enhancing employee’s skills that can improve the firm’s capability. HR as a strategic partner is
the bridge that lies between the employees and organizational objectives and the gap between the
functions of HR and aim of the organization may restrict the organization by grabbing
opportunities in concerning market.
So there are several opportunities for the organization to improve functions and decision-
making through the help of strategic HR (Lawler & Mohrman, 2003). It helps in designing and
guiding the employees in order to motivate them and to improve the working environment.
Hence, this paper would find the alignment of HR functions with the missions, vision and
objectives of the organization. Further, this paper would analyze the significance of a shared
services structure for HR that will be housed at the organization’s corporate offices.

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Strategic Functions of HR
An effective and strategy based human resources department could provide the
concerning organization to effective structure and capability for achieving business requirement
for managing organizational most important resource such as its employees. In the context of an
organization, there are several areas or HR disciplines but the HR professionals or managers in
each discipline perform the task of their related areas in an effective manner (Kraus, Stricker &
Speyer, 2010). It is because that the HR department works on the basis of organizational mission,
vision and objectives and also forms its own mission vision and objectives in that the employees
could deliver the requirement of the organization towards the achievement of organizational
objectives.
Recruitment & Selection
It is an important area of business organization because it provides the potential human
resource to conduct the business activities. On the other hand, the success of the HR department
is generally measured by the number of positions that are filled by recruitment process and the
involvement of time to fill the job positions (Mathis & Jackson, 2011). The HR department of an
organization is also played an important role in the development of internal human resource to
fill then future needs of the organization related to the skilled workforce.
To attain the organization strategic goals, HR manager advertises the required job
postings and applies the different processes such as interviews and screening test to hire new
recruitment for the organizational activities (Kraus, Stricker & Speyer, 2010). Hence, it could be
stated that if the HR manager of an organization does not hire the employees according to the
vision and mission of the organization then; the organization could not be able to fulfill its

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