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LASA 2\u2014Human Resource Management ( Human Resource Management)
Assignment 1: LASA 2\u2014Human Resource Management ( Human Resource Management)
Writing Assignment and Presentation
Case Study\u2014Culture Clashes at SAP
Read the Case: Culture Clashes Make Change Difficult at SAP. Use the Argosy University online library and the internet for additional research. Imagine you are an HR
consultant called in to advise the leadership at SAP. Prepare a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation to present your responses to the information below. Use the notes
section in PowerPoint to clarify your points. Include a title slide and a reference slide in addition to the main slides. Use at least one chart or graph and at least
one other visual aid within your presentation. Utilize at least three outside resources to compose your response. Your presentation should be professional and
correctly address your target audience.
Provide an executive summary of the main points of the case. Identify and describe the various cultures and differences in those cultures within SAP\u2019s changing
environment and employee workforce.
In your opinion, what aspects of the changes at SAP would be most difficult for the German employees? Why? Which would be most difficult for the SAP employees in other
countries? Why?
What HRM activities or functions were affected by the changes described in this case?
Recommend at least 3 ideas or concepts the company can implement to help them overcome cultural barriers that are affecting its efforts to become more creative and
agile.
Propose at least three concrete HR solutions that would improve relations at SAP, resulting in less conflict. Support your proposal with outside research.
Use at least three resources in addition to your textbook to justify your responses. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.<\/p>\n

READING FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT<\/p>\n

CASE: Culture Clashes Make Change Difficult at SAP Software giant SAP is based in Germany and is seeking to develop more efficient global operations. At the beginning
of this decade, about two-thirds of its managers were German, and most key projects were led from its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. The company\u2019s leaders hoped
SAP could become more agile and creative by bringing in a more diverse group of employees and sharing responsibility. Unlike the more typical route to globalization by
setting up sales offices and manufacturing facilities, SAP introduced change from the top down. The company made English its official language, even for meetings at
headquarters. It hired foreign managers, making them half of the company\u2019s top management. It placed product development under the leadership of Shai Agassi, based in
Palo Alto, California. Agassi was charged with overseeing development groups in eight centers around the world. One objective for the globalized SAP was to develop and
implement software much faster. The process of creating a new program at SAP had been taking at least a year, as programmers in Walldorf carefully worked out each
problem. The resulting programs were complex and difficult to install and didn\u2019t work well with other companies\u2019 products. At the same time, the Internet was making
customers\u2019 software more interconnected and increasing the pace of change. To keep up, SAP would have to change as well. SAP hired programmers in India and China, as
well as in Germany and the United States. German programmers focused on the coding associated with the software\u2019s main tasks, American employees more often addressed
programming that affects the user\u2019s experience, and Indian programmers worked on updating and fixing the code in older programs. Some human resource functions were
outsourced to Prague, in Eastern Europe. The changes frightened many of the German employees, who worried they would lose their jobs and the company would lose its
reputation for quality. Agassi assigned a group of 10 software developers to create 100 programs for analyzing data such as defects in parts. Their deadline: just 12
weeks. The developers first insisted the task was impossible, but when Agassi wouldn\u2019t back down, they found a way to meet the deadline by writing a program that would
write other programs. Still, they worried that working so fast would ultimately lead to problems with quality. Employees in Germany complained about the move away from
\u201cgood, old German engineering\u201d and the requirement that they speak English in meetings. They criticized the \u201cAmericanization of SAP.\u201d Eventually, they rallied enough
support to form a workers\u2019 council, similar to a union, to help workers find other jobs at SAP when positions were moved to other countries. So far, though, the
company has avoided layoffs at headquarters\u2014in fact, it has hired programmers. Personnel director Klaus Heinrich guided American executives in working with engineers
in each country. For example, he urged them to manage German workers by making a good impression with hard work and quality. Managers learned to give German employees
plenty of leeway and give Indian employees plenty of attention. Still, Agassi, the U.S.-based head of product development, resigned out of frustration with the level
of conflict. SOURCE: Based on Phred Dvorak and Leila Abboud, \u201cSAP\u2019s Plan to Globalize Hits Cultural Barriers,\u201d Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2007,
http:\/\/online.wsj.com. Questions 1. In your opinion, what aspects of the changes at SAP would be most difficult for the German employees? Which would be most difficult
for the SAP employees in other countries? 2. What HRM activities or functions were affected by the changes described in this case? 3. Imagine you are an HR consultant
called in to advise the leadership at SAP. Suggest a few ways the company can overcome cultural barriers that are affecting its efforts to become more creative and
agile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LASA 2\u2014Human Resource Management ( Human Resource Management) Assignment 1: LASA 2\u2014Human Resource Management ( Human Resource Management) Writing Assignment and Presentation Case Study\u2014Culture Clashes at SAP Read the Case: Culture Clashes Make Change Difficult at SAP. Use the Argosy Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}