Implementation an human resources shared services center: Multinational company strategy in fusion context

• Autor(a) principal: Bittencourt, João Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silva, Givanildo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Internext
• Texto Completo: https://internext.espm.br/internext/article/view/358
• topic: HR Shared Services; Shared Services Center; Human Resources Strategic Management; Consolidations and Acquisitions; Serviços Compartilhados de RH; Centro de Serviços Compartilhados; Gestão Estratégica de Recursos Humanos; Fusões e Aquisições; Transnational corporations

The aim of this research was to analyze the process of implementation and management of the Shared Services Center for Human Resources, in a multinational company in the context of mergers and acquisitions. The company analyzed was called here Alpha, and is one of the largest food companies in the country that was born of a merger between Beta and Delta in 2008. The CSC may constitute a tool for strategic management of HR that allows repositioning of the role of the area in order to be more strategic at corporate level and more profitable at the operating level. The research was based on a descriptive and exploratory study of qualitative approach. Among the results, there is the fact that shared services were strategic to support, standardize and ensure the expansion of the company. The challenges found were associated with the development of a culture of service and the relationship with users and the definition of HR activities scope. The following management procedures include the adequacy of wage differences between employees, the career path limitation and the need to attract and retain talent and international expansion.