NameMuneek Shah

SubjectHuman Resource Management

Dilemma of an HR Manager

Submitted toDr. KSB Nayar

Date5th March, 2013

1) How to attract brilliant engineers to the industry?

Ans. Engineers in today’s Job Market are attracted, by reputation of firm and

reputation can hype up, by collaborating with the following:

Technical High Schools

ITI Colleges

Degree Engineering Colleges of Bachelors and Masters programs

Employment Exchanges

Recruitment Agencies

Advertisements Agencies

By collaborating with schools and colleges, company can conduct field visits

for students to increase awareness of manufacturing industry as career option.

Company can also provide stipend as incentive, for taking up internships in

the company, by doing this students can explore and learn about work carried

out in manufacturing industry.

2) How to keep the engineers motivated to their job?

Ans. Few key areas: stimulating technology, opportunity to innovate, recognition

and praise, and comfortable surroundings.

Stimulating Technology

No engineer or developer wants to be stuck working on an endless set

of tasks

To get the most out of talent you have to challenge them, arm with the latest

applications and tools and let them do what they do best – solve problems

Opportunity to Innovate

We have some of the sharpest minds at your disposal – why not fully

use them?

Engineers love to solve problems, finding solutions for what was

previously seen as the unsolvable.

It allows them to create, test, and get back to the intrinsic skills that

probably made them fall in love with technology.

Send your technical talent outside of your company’s walls to continue

to learn more, e.g. Inter-company competitions

Recognition & Praise

Make sure your tech talent and their successes are spotlighted.

Send out a monthly client newsletter that includes a highlight of one of

our technical team members to help educate and promote their role in

relation to the company.

Use weekly all-company where an employee can publically thank

another for going the extra mile throughout the previous week on a

project.

Have quarterly award programs where employees are acknowledged

with plaques and cash bonuses for their dedication and superior work

over the previous period.

Comfortable Surroundings

Fashion an environment that people enjoy coming to and they will do

just that.

Go to great lengths to craft an atmosphere based on creativity,

collaboration, and originality.

From a relaxed dress code, flexible schedules, free weekly, Dual

monitors with the fastest machines, video games, and fun monthly

outings.

By designing an environment centered on employee morale and

comfort, our people are happier, more productive, and driven to thrive.

3) Is it advisable to pay different rates of pay for people in different

departments?

Ans. Yes, it is advisable to pay different rates of pay for people in different

department as long as following are kept in mind:

Being thoughtful when you assign job pay grades

Following the same process for everyone , no discrimination between

genders

Making the process as open, transparent and as practical as possible

Having respected people assign job pay grades

Having some kind of informal appeal process, if anybody has a problem

regarding pay grades

4) How Everest Auto Industry could overcome the problems with respect to

service conditions? Is it possible for them to introduce a system like

flexible working hours, etc.?

Ans. To overcome problems of working conditions EAIL should:

Improve Work Environment by:

o Improving layout of the workplace for easy entry and exit of the

workplace, under normal working conditions and in an emergency

o Flooring and other surfaces should be re-designed, installed and

maintained to allow work to be carried out safely

o Appropriate lighting, enabling each worker to carry out work

safely, persons to move around safely and for safe evacuation in an

emergency

o Appropriate ventilation for enabling workers to carry out their

work without risking their health and safety

o Redesigning workstation’s layout in relation to or near essential

services (such as gas, electricity, water, sewerage and

telecommunications) and not affecting the health and safety of

persons at the workplace.

Improve Welfare Facilities by:

o Access to facilities for handicapped or differently abled employees

o Ease access and non-contaminated facility of drinking water

o Access to clean toilets

o Hand washing facilities for good employee hygine

o Access to hygienic dining facilities

o Secure storage at the workplace for personal items belonging to

workers

o Access to private changing areas

It is not possible for EAIL to introduce flexible working hours as it is in

Manufacturing Industry, because compared to Service Industry, it has a

factory which is producing continuously ,no shut down. Flexible hours

allows the employee to work as per their convenience, which is not

acceptable any for manufacturing unit, due to high start-up cost and high

loss during production shut down