At your company, you work on all HRM responsibilities, and have been asked to join a committee to present a report on management challenges. This report must include challenges, possible causes, and a plan for addressing them.…
Incentive program- rewarding provide commitment, among employee and it give them something to work for.…
What do you consider are the most important strategic challenges for today’s HR practitioners operating in multi- or transnational companies? Critically discuss your position drawing on ideas and arguments raised during the semester and with reference to a brief example from industry.…
One of the step’s leaders and managers can take is to incorporate diversity training of the organization. This big step puts the organization on its way toward maintaining a well balanced diverse organizational culture within a company. When it comes to managing diversity in the workplace, there are many attributes that go into a successful training session. (Jones, 2011, p. 164), “managers can take steps to change attitudes and values and promote the effective management of diversity.”…
Susan Jackson states in Diversity in the Workplace: Human Resource Initiatives that, “Surveys of business leaders confirm the perception that interest in managing diversity successfully is widespread. In a study of 645 firms, 74% of the respondents were concerned about diversity, and of these about one-third felt that diversity effected corporate strategy.” This means that the majority of organizations feel diversity is important, and see the need to take action, however; implementing the process can be more difficult. This paper will outline a human resources strategic plan that includes diversity training for all employees to include managers and frontline staff. It will focus specific diversity training segments to address management’s perspectives, and will use a change model to persuade management to implement needed modifications to the organizations practices. This paper will also propose a brief training outline of diversity content. Finally, this paper will recommend a comprehensive method of evaluation to ensure the training will create the needed changes.…
Employee retention and keeping talented employees is one of the biggest management challenge that facing corporation especially with recovery of the economy and most corporation started recruiting and opening new positions.…
When we look at what diversity is in the workplace a couple thoughts come to mind. Diversity is when we look at others who have the human traits that are different from our own. The differences we could see in the workplace is nationality, religion, disabilities, job title, physical appearance, race, gender, age, educational background, sexual orientation, job experiences, income, and family status (Sadiku, Obiomon, n.d.). Some of the concerns with workplace diversity include a hesitancy from management to participate in, employment, and employee training. First, for diversity to be successfully implemented, the proposal must be approved by the company’s board of directors. Without management completely participating the strategies for diversity are not existent. Second, the human resources department needs to setup policies and procedures that are related to employing and training employees. Thirdly, diversity strives best when it’s about the customers.…
I believe that besides compensation costs, HRM is faced with globalization, rapid changes, and technology. One…
Organizations today are looking at various ways to keep a competitive edge over the competition in their industry. Diversity management was created by organizations as a strategic mechanism to help with the growing diversity in today’s labor markets. Over the years, diversity has been used to define individuals based on ethnic origins, gender, age, sexual orientation, and political or religious beliefs in both society and the workplace. With globalization increasing in the 21st century, organizations have to reevaluate their past practices of diversity management. Human Resource Managers today are challenged to create effective training programs that incorporate upper level management down to front line employees to be responsible for equality and diversity initiatives.…
Needs, values, priorities of employees and employers have changed dramatically over the last decade. On all levels of the corporate ladder, men and women are seeking new ways to manage the time they spend working so they can spend more time living. In the boardrooms, executives are seeking ways to attract - and retain - the best employees so they can continue to survive and thrive in a highly competitive global economy. As companies are becoming more and more diverse it is becoming more and more important for companies to understand and manage diversity. The people of different background, races, religion creates diverse workforce. There is an importance of having diverse workforce to provide better performance. There are perspectives of managing the diverse workforce, which require organization leaders and managers of being responsible of attaining better diverse workforce.…
Multiculturalism proved to be the most important dimension of diversity. Although many aspects of diversity have been examined by researchers, no comprehensive model exists. We will see a framework which will help organizations develop HRM strategies and policies to manage diversity effectively. The framework will also help researchers identify key areas for future research and guide practitioners to formulate and implement diversity appropriately.…
Diversity training represents the opportunity for employers to educate employees about diversity. Furthermore, it is an opportunity to break down the barriers that separate different types of employees, such as ethnic, social, and political barriers, so they can work together and be productive as a team. However, for diversity training to be effective, an organization should ensure their training program is an ongoing effort supported by top management. Creating a diversity training program for an organization usually involves evaluating the team’s needs, designing materials that reflect the training requirements, holding the training and then following up on the efforts.…
Being successful at managing workforce diversity involves attracting and retaining the highest quality individuals in the talent pool. For managers it means learning how to manage human potential sensitively. It requires an ever-increasing awareness of how people from different backgrounds deal with authority, communication, overall business etiquette, and relate to their communities of affiliation. Successful management of workforce diversity is a process that takes place in many stages and on many levels. It requires managers to first recruit a competent and qualified staff, then to accommodate individual needs within the context of the work team and the organization.…
This case study report describes a research on two large organizations namely PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia and HSBC in relation to their approaches to managing workforce diversity. The goal of this report was to identify workforce diversity theory and its advantages and disadvantages of managing workforce diversity. It also aims to analyse two organizations approaches to managing workforce diversity and evaluate advantages and disadvantages of the organizations’ approaches based on workforce diversity theory. The report concludes that workforce diversity is one of the primary concerns for most of the businesses; therefore, managing diversity is an important element of management in today’s organisation. Workforce diversity could lead the company into chaos. However, if the company is able to manage it with good approaches, it could be a competitive advantage for the company. There are some approaches that the company use to manage the diversity in their workplace. As it is stated on the research part, Chevron and HSBC manage their workforce diversity with different approaches. Yet, there are also advantages and disadvantages in each approach. The advantages are such as an increase in their productivity, maximizing their workers potential, and employee affinity groups have grown rapidly. On the other hands, the disadvantages are such as an increase in the cost of training, a conflict between a major and minor group, and also a tense working environment between their workers. Hence, in order to gain benefits from the diversity, every organization has to manage it effectively.…
Handling Multicultural / Diverse Workforce: Dealing with people from different age, gender, race, ethnicity, educational background, location, income, parental status, religious beliefs, marital status and ancestry and work experience can be a challenging task for HR managers. With this, managing people with different set of ideologies, views, lifestyles and psychology can be very risky. Effective communication, adaptability, agility and positive attitude of HR managers can bind the diverse workforce and retain talents in the organization.…