Question

Describe a medium-size African business by focusing on the following matters:

The goal of the firm

Partner relations

Organizational Culture

HR practices(specifically practices related to work systems, staffing, performance management, compensation, employee labor relations)

Make sure you can contract between the Western firms and African firms on each of these elements, including the sub-elements.

Answer 1

1.

Main Goals of the firm - The main goals of medium size African business should be following

• · They must have goals for the growth of the organization
• · They should have customer satisfaction
• · The product quality and reliability should be more important goal of medium size African business
• · Their operation should be balanced (efficiency of operation) should be there
• · The employee should be satisfied with the organization

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Partner Relations - A medium size African company should have good relationship with its partner because it is medium size organization so they should maintain good relations with their partner because partner only provide them work to complete within specified time period so they should have good relationship with the partner of the small size African business organization And if their relation is good with partner firm so that they can get more order from they in this way medium size organization can grow in future and becomes a large organization.

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Organizational Culture - for the growth of any organization organizational culture plays an important role so they should maintain their organizational culture. A small size African business organization should hire all employee (well educated and qualified) so that their work quality and quantity can be maintained or increased and their work ethics should be good in which every employee help each other and creates a good atmosphere for the work because for the growth of every small size organization their employee and work ethics play an important role because of that only they can go to the level of success.

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HR Practices & Pay Structure - HR is the human resource department of the organization. The purpose of this department is to provide the required human resources to the organization. The quality of employees depends upon the process of selection of human resources in the organization. Employees are the key asset for the organization. Role of employee in the organization is of greatest importance. Higher the quality of employees and better will be the growth of the organization. The growth, development, culture and environment of the organization is being depends upon the employee. So the selection of human resource in the organization is vital and very much essential.

HR Benefits & Pay Structures : The employees contribution directly depends upon the benefits they are getting from the organization. This point needs to be taken care by the HR and they should designed the right process for providing the required benefits to the employees so that they feel that they are taken care and their urgent needs can be fulfilled.

Also HR should pay them so that they can run their livelihood and they can feel that it is our organization so its benefit will go to the organization only with effect of quality products. Minimum wages compensation they should follow for every labour as well as employee so that they can satisfy with their payment and can give their 100% to the organization