Term Paper

The purpose of this reflective paper is to show my understanding along with what I have learned about HRM (human resources management) and the different way HRM impacts the success behind every business, along with the rules and regulations that go with it. Over the last five weeks I have learned quite a bit about HRM and will reflect on that throughout this paper. “Human resource management is the managing of human skills and talents to make sure they are used effectively and in alignment with an organizations goals.” (Youssef, 2012). I will be including the things I learned throughout the last five weeks in this

In the Case Study "Maple Leaf Shoes, Recruiting," Clark president of the shoe company has to devise a plan within a month to strategically integrate automation in his business to meet the union's demands. He is also concerned with the loss of major stakeholders from foreign competitors and the emerging Indian Shoe Company that produces higher, superior, and unique quality and brand compared to his. Not to mention, Clark has legal issues with the Human Rights Commision pertaining discriminatory practices toward females in the workplace; in which they require him to review and alter job requirement for the supervisory position. With the gravity of the situation, Clark resolved to hire a new Human resource manager, considering his previous one resigned, and his other two employees who handled human resource functions were unavailable. He used the same template when hiring the former manager and made minor changes, and put the new ad on a newspaper without thorough planning. After that, Clark hired Joy to search because he recalls that she runs a temporary help agency. Clark also has a consultant that is writing up a job description but dismissed that idea because it was unnecessary to him.

Keywords: human resources management, HRM, motivation, diversity, communication, recognition, relationships, performance, economic growth, recruiting, candidates, creativity,

violence related to racism and hatred in different communities is nothing new. However, hearing about incident of racism involving youth is not something that you hear every day. Recently, there was an article posted by Boston Globe reporting a case of hatred among youth. According to the article by Travis Andersen, “an 8-year-old biracial boy was taunted with slurs and pushed of a table with rope tied around his neck last month (2017).” Thankfully, the boy was okay after being treated at a hospital.

Data Innovations Office facilitates cross-sector analytical insight generation to drive competitive value and optimize the use of its resources and financial assets. Under the Chief Data Officer’s leadership this office provides analytical services to many other business units. An agency relationship exists between Data Innovations Office and all other business units who use its services. At the same time, this office employs services of third party business analytics service providers. At times, the third party companies may need a database to create solutions which pose a great value. They might not be able to generate these databases on their own due to sheer volume of data and lack of very expensive data processing environments. Although these companies are hired to provide services solely for the interest of the principal – in our case Citigroup- they might see a potential to profit from selling their findings to other corporations. The principal limits such behavior by establishing appropriate incentives for the agent through the Master Service Agreements and by incurring monitoring costs. A non-disclosure agreement is also signed by the agent to legally prevent them from releasing any of their findings.

Boxall, P and Purcell, J (2011), The Goals of Human Resource Management, Strategy and Human Resource Management, 3rd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 1-36.

Review the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership.

In ancient Egypt, both males and females wore wigs made either from human hair, sheep's wool or vegetable fibers, depending upon their social status. There were a number of benefits for Egyptians from shaving their heads. First it was more comfortable in the hot Egyptian climate not to have hair. Secondly, a baldhead helped avoid the danger of an infestation of lice, which was a problem at that time. However, it appears that Egyptians preferred having "hair" which resulted in the creation of wigs that gave the appearance of hair. The new wigs also protected the Egyptians' baldheads from the brutal sun. Wigs became part of daily wear for the Egyptian people indicating a person's status as well as their role in a

Human resource management is part of the human resource approach, which is evidently geared to allow organizations to benefit in two significant ways: increasing in the organization’s effectiveness and satisfying all of the employee’s needs. Organizational goals and

The case presented through the simulation gives the students the chance to assume the position of a Human Resources Director of a medium sized company. According to the HRManagement Case, the company has expanded in the last couple of years; however, the Human Resources department has not been able to keep up with the growth of the company (HRManagement Case, 12). Therefore, the Chief Executive Officer has advised for the student to help the department by setting specific goals. The case gives the following detailed information in regards to the Human Resources budget, staffing methods, productivity of employees, wages, and training programs.

The economic environment in nowadays dynamic, it is fairly important for organisations and managers to recognise the curtail of Human Resource Management. It is clear that Human Resource Management (HRM) has become one of the most recommend management strategy in the modern business (Leopold and Harris, 2009). Human Resource Management is a technique process of managing people in the workplace to enable and enhance organization performance (Leopold and Harris, 2009). This theory involved the responsible to attracting, selecting, training and managing people which make employees become more valuable to the organisations. It invests effect in learning and development at work. Also to communicate with all employees at each level to reward successful employee relations (Wilton, 2011). Human Resource Management plays a very important role in the operation strategy and management concerns in work organisations of all kinds (Leopold and Harris, 2009). In aim to justify this statement by evaluate the benefit and importance of Human Resource Management in contemporary work organisations. This essay will focus on analysis the advantages of use Human Resource Management in business also underline by explain more detail about the different HRM strategy brings benefits and give competitive advantages impact to the organisation success. Then summarise by a general conclusion on the importance of HRM in contemporary work organisations.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the terminology used to illustrate formal systems devised for the management of people within an organization. It is the method of managing an organization or company that is directly related to the employees of that particular organization. The success of a business often rely heavily on the performance of managing human resource. Maximizing the desires and benefits of an organization and helping a business grow by rewarding employees to help motivate and push them in their performance is one of the main aim of HRM. By doing this, it will have a positive impact on both the company and it’s entire organization.

It is necessary for human resource management to have a proper human resource planning. “Human resource planning involves planning that assure a firm’s needs for employees”, says Madura. She also includes that human resource planning consists of three tasks which are forecasting staffing needs, job analysis (Madura, 2007). Recruiting and selecting the right employee is not enough. There is a necessity to provide continuous training and development to the employees to be more productive and efficient. With great training, it enables the employees to be more innovative, creative, motivated and thus increase their working performance. Training can be through various types such as on the job training, off the job training, job rotation and scholarships.

Human Resource Management involves a wide array of functions that encompasses the time from when an employee enters an organization to the time the employee leaves the organization. The specific activities that are involved in HRM include job design and analysis, recruitment, orientation and placement, development and training of the personnel, employee remuneration, and performance appraisal (Aswathappa, 2007: 5). This paper shall focus on three main activities which are recruitment, training, and personnel development. When it comes to recruitment, it is incumbent upon the Human Resource Manager to bring into the workforce, employees that are both wiling and competent to accomplish specific tasks. The work of recruitment goes hand in

According to Decenzo and Robbins (1994), “Human Resource Management is a process of procuring, developing and maintaining the performance level of the employees to achieve the organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner”. The HRM practices of recruiting and selecting employees, training them for their job, evaluating their