What are the examples of Horizontal Integration?

Answer 1

Horizontal Integration: The HR functions are interrelated and inter connected to each other. Ex. Organizational plan leads to resourcing and it leads development, development leads performance, performance leads rewards, rewards leads to employee relations and so on.

Vertical integration : All the activities of the line managers are integrated with the organizational business strategy. Ex. Increasing to line of the business by x% leads to reflect in HR activities.

Further HR roles can be divided into transactional HR, managerial HR and strategic HR. The transactional HR deals with administrative and clerical functions in HRM. The managerial HR deals rules regulations, laws, troubleshooting etc. The strategic HR deals with adding value in the form creative and innovative in its activities in order to support the vertical integration.

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Answer 2

Boeing in march 2008 purchasing of supplier to its 787 airplane. it enabled them to overcome production problems that have delayed the delivery of the plane to British Airways and Virgin. they key benefit is security of supply

Answer 3

When any company buys the competitor of the company or merge it called horizontal integration.

We can have the examples of this question is like this:

Tata Steel and Corus: Both they were producing the same components like steel but beside this they have other products also. They have good market of the steel in many counties. So that we can say is that it comes under horizontal integration.

Answer 4

Horizontal integration is a strategy used by a company to strengthen their position within the industry. One example is when Disney merged with Pixar.

Answer 5

Oil Companies

Answer 6

Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company