Contemporary People ManagementExecutive SummaryThis analysis is conducted based on HIMA GCC operations in particular, as to how external factors of this market have affected the company’s internal dynamics and its overall strategy. GCC market unlike the European or the American market is fast developing and more dynamic due to Economic variations & development in oil & gas and construction industry.
This study also takes into account1: How external factors dictated the growth and expansion of the company’s small GCC operations providing only site services, to providing turnkey engineering solutions to clients over the last decade, and becoming the biggest engineering hub outside its main corporate headquarters Bruhl, Germany.
2: Its invariable effects on different departments within the company operations such as services dept., engineering dept., quality control dept., contracts dept. & marketing and sales dept.
HIMA started its GCC operations with providing support services only to clients in GCC region with very limited man power. HIMA Germany’s major focus had always been its operations in European and American market. However, as the company’s GCC market presence expanded due to the booming oil & gas industry, the company started providing engineering services that were predominantly provided by its approved integrators operating in the GCC region.
Previously, all the trainings for staff were provided in Germany along with management of people being controlled from corporate headquarters. However, later in order to capitalize on this market opportunity and to keep up with the increased operations, the company began beefing up the human and capital resources.
Due to the abundance and low cost of skilled Human Resource, instead of depending of the middleman i.e. ‘the integrators’ the company started hiring its own team of engineers and technical staff to not only provide support of its equipment but also its full engineering and implementation, hence increasing the profit margins.
Some employees who were already working in the service department were selected and sent to companies headquarter for training is systems engineering. After training a small engineering team was based in HIMA Middle East office to support engineering services of GCC region. It started with only three in team at the start with small projects in hand but with time it has increased to team of 15 people as core members handling huge projects over the period of time, all the engineering projects which were earlier handled by integrators are now handled by HIMA itself generating a lot of revenue for the company. HIMA Middle East engineering practices are in line with engineering practices followed in company’s headquarters thus firming the company’s brand name and reputation in the region, which
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He went on to say, “I had to change a lot of things because the development team from Hyderabad and Karachi had been assigned to Hyderabad, Karachi to Islamabad, Hyderabad to Karachi. It was difficult to develop and take care of a project. But the rest is done, only on condition that the company is given the opportunity to develop more projects in Hyderabad and Karachi. Moreover the team of engineers are given with a lot of attention to the project of their profession so that, it seems that the organization of project of their profession has become really effective on a lot of fronts.”
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as its members are always able to give special attention, special training to its members and its mission to promote their culture; to promote their work and to work for their common betterment and to benefit their economy and human rights and to be an influential player in the region, all in the way of being on the front lines, in protecting people and women, helping the development of a safe environment, providing an education and to facilitate communication, support the efforts of the development process and promote good relations. We have been engaged in many projects in the past but for our purposes we are here to provide support.””
He explained how HE is now developing new projects in Pakistan and other parts of Asia. Although he was asked to describe the projects, he took issue that he does not have his contract with HIMA Middle East but the contracts and all documents of HIMA Central government were fulfilled and were used for project and development work as well.
He stressed that HE and the IT department of HIMA Central did not do any of the work that was done in HAS as they want to focus on India-Pakistan-India-US-EU-Asia-Pacific. He also pointed out that one of the projects of HIMA Central are a team of companies headed by HIMA Middle East. He said that his team has brought a project in Srinagar in Mumbai and in Islamabad the IT team now headed by HIMA Central did not work but they were given a job as team.
HAS had received a full job after four years in the company, they applied for a full visa in Srinagar. Once they started work this meant that they were given visas for three years and at the end of 2015 they were able to start working after four years in their job. The project had now been started and they would soon be working together as a team in Srinagar.
The engineers have been trained in the same way as they do in HAS, making them in the same way as they meet and compete. They are not afraid to talk about the work in the projects. They share their expertise all the time. They have also been able to talk to officials about some of the projects and the projects of their group do not suffer from any problems because in HAS they just do the work from the ground up. They also don’t bother about making any excuses for the project as there is no need for anyone to say we didn’t like the project or our project, we have worked hard, put in hard work and put our