HRM in Australia: Roles, Challenges, and Trends

Running Head: HRM
Human Resource
Management
Report
System04104
6/22/2019

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................2
2. HRM in Australia................................................................................................................2
3. Key Roles and Functions of HR Manager..........................................................................3
4. Current Challenges for HRM in Australia..........................................................................4
5. Current Trends for HRM in Australia.................................................................................5
6. How these factors affect the roles and perceptions of HRM in the Workplace..................7
7. Conclusion..........................................................................................................................8
Reference....................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction
Human resource management is crucial and plays a vital role in the growth and
development of any organisation. Humans are the most precious and key resources in any
organisation and this resource should be manage in such a way that enhance the
organisational capabilities in order to achieve the organisational goals and objectives (Kehoe
& Wright, 2013). However, the organisation also faces many challenges, difficulties, and
opportunities related to managing people in the organisation. Human resource is most
relevant and adaptive resource of any organisation and it also ensures the organisational
success and survival. This report helps to understand the role of HRM in Australia and
current challenges and trends in HRM. This report also helps to understand the roles and
responsibilities of HR manager in the organisation. This report also explains that how HR
strategies help the HR manager to gain competitive advantage and motivate people towards
the organisational goals. This report also helps to understand that how HR managers meet all
these challenges and about the current trends in HR in modern business era.
2. HRM in Australia
From last 20 years, Australia manages their people in more competitive, global, and
deregulated environment. Most of the organisations use the contemporary human resource
management approach to deal with people, use those strategies, which are beneficial for the
corporate competitiveness and give a competitive edge over the competitors. Every
organisation in Australia wants to improve their performance by adopting the modern HRM
strategies and practices. It has been seen that most of the large multinational organisations in
Australia uses the integrated and corporate strategies to manager their human resource in
compare to small organisation (Lee, Pak, Kim, & Li, 2019). The most of the HR works in the
organisation are performed by the HR specialist rather than other common people. It is also
observed that both private and public sectors uses different type of practices of HRM and
uses different approach of HRM to manage the performance of people in the organisation.
The HRM practice performed by the Specialist is generally influenced by the nature of work,
organisational structure, and contractual relationships among people in the organisation.
However, the HR manager is accountable to manage and accomplish both internal and
external change in the organisation, which affects the organisational performance and ability
to perform (Schuler, Jackson & Tarique, 2011).

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3. Key Roles and Functions of HR Manager
HR manager is any organisation play significant role in organisational success. HR
manager is not only responsible for manage people, also responsible for motivate and
encourage people towards the organisational objectives. The key roles and functions of a HR
manager are as follow:
1. Manage the performance of people: HR manager is responsible for manage the
performance of organisational people by encouraging and motivating them towards
the organisational goals and objectives. HR manager is also accountable for
performing the strategic and functional responsibilities. HR manager also reports to
the director or a C-level HR executive of the organisation about the performance of
employees and also reports about the various HR issues in the organisation (Alfes,
Shantz, Truss & Soane, 2013).
2. Compensation and Benefits: A HR manager responsible for guidance and direction
on compensation and benefits plan and also manages data related to it. Apart from
this, the manager also responsible from designing the compensation benefits for the
employees and provide them other monetary and non-monetary benefits. The manager
is also responsible for providing medical leave for the employees and responsible to
compliance such type of acts in the organisation. HR manager is also responsible for
monitoring and evaluating performance of employees for the purpose of employee’s
appraisal and promotion in the organisation (Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Barrales-Molina &
Kaynak, 2018).
3. Training and Development: HR manager is responsible to conduct professional
development and training programs for employees in order to improve their
performance. HR manager is also responsible to identify the need of periodic or
regular training to employees and determine the time period when training is
necessary. In Australia, HR manager is also play a vital part in executing the
strategies related to employee development programs. HR manager plays a key role in
planning based training and professional development program to enhance the skills
and knowledge of employees (Daley, 2012).
4. Maintain Effective Relations: The HR manager is responsible for managing a good
relationship among the employees. HR manager also helps in establishing a strong
relationship between employees and management. An effective relationship strategy
helps the organisation to maintain overall well-being of employees in the