HRM 1029 : HR Management PDF

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HR management

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HRM is one of the important segment of organization and its role in the organizational
functionalities are not only to manage the employees but also to manage their functionalities and
make sure that the rules, regulations, policies and all types of regulations imposed by the
organization are followed by the employees. At workplace, number of issues arises due to
numerous factors and those factors may affect organizational performance, thus, it is necessary
to have an eye over the functionalities of the employees so that organizational performance could
not get affected.
Recently, it has been noticed that the giant tech company Google is facing certain HRM related
issues due to misconduct done by one of their senior employee. Andy Rubin, creator of Android
accused of sexual harassment and misconduct with one of the female employee at the workplace.
As soon as the incident came into the notice of management, he was asked to leave the
organization because it was directly affecting the organizational performance in both financial as
well as in reputational terms.
Sexual harassment issue is one of the trending topics of these days and in relation to this
incident, #metoo campaign has been started by the victims. With the rise in the incidents under
this campaigns, I decided to analyse one of the major issues occurred at the workplace of giant
player of tech industry Google Inc. In relation to this, I have selected a news article published in
the Global News on 1st November 2018 as “Hundreds of Google employees walk out to protest
million-dollar settlements for sexual harassers”. The article was written by Rebeccaa Joseph,
National Online Journalist, Global News. In this article, failures human resource management
will be analysed due to which not only organizational performance is getting affected, but it is
also affecting the reputation of the business across the globe. In relation to this article, major
HRM issues could be recognised as the failure in the management of employees, maintaining a
safe work environment for female employees, thus, it is necessary for the organization make
relevant changes in their HRM policies for making it better in order to reduce the occurrence of
such issues (Joseph, 2018).
After knowing the incident, Google’s Chief Executive Office Sundar Pichai asked Andy Rubin
to resign from the position against compensation $90 million. Since, the action taken by the CEO
of Google, hundreds of people across the globe including the employees of Google walked off
their jobs to protest against the settlement amount given to the man who was found guilty in the