Issues in Human Resource Management

Issues in Human Resource
Management
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Executive summary
The paper will critically reflect upon the six Human Resource Management issues that affects both
managers and the concerned organization. One of the issues is recruitment that causes a huge impact
on the Human Resource management team as sometimes they unable to choose the right candidates
for the job role. Retrenchment causes due to the increase of cost-measures and this also creates
problem to the HR manager. In other words, the HR management team unable to follow the EEO law
and also does not gave same opportunity to the workers and hence it creates problem to the
management team. The discrimination in aging population lack proper knowledge in technology and this
creates problem to the HR manager to complete the work as per the stipulated time. Along with this
lack of proper training also causes delay of the working procedure and hence many issues rises in the
management team. Another issue that has discussed in this paper is retention, and this is considered as
one of the major issue faced by the Human Resource management team. Compensation, benefits, and
working environment are the main factors that an employee needed while working in an organization,
but due to lack of proper strategy, the Human Resource Management team failed to provide this thing
their employees. Thus this dissatisfaction leads the employee to leave the job and hence it creates an
issue on the HRM team. Furthermore, the paper will also provide some recommendations that help the
HRM to diminish these issues in the coming days.
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Strategic Recruitment issues in HR Management........................................................................................3
Retrenchment Issues in HR Management...................................................................................................4
EEO Law (Equal Employment Opportunity) Issues in HR Management.......................................................4
Discrimination in aging works Issues in HR Management...........................................................................4
Training Issues in HR Management.............................................................................................................5
Retention issues in HR Management...........................................................................................................5
Conclusions..................................................................................................................................................7
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference....................................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
The paper will evaluates critically on the six HRM issues, recruitment, retrenchment, equal employment
opportunity, discrimination in aging workers, training and retention that creates a lot of problems for
the managers of the firm. Furthermore, the paper will also provide the effects of this six issues over the
management team. Moreover, some recommendations are also provided that will help the HRM to
reduce their issues.
Strategic Recruitment issues in HR Management
The HR department of an organization or business typically faces some issues while recruiting new
employees. One of the major issue faced by the HR management is finding the right staff with the
correct combination of skills, motivation, and personality often causes difficultly, and this mainly occurs
when the pool of candidates is relatively large (Nikolaou, & Oostrom, 2015). The HR Management
departments face difficulties with the recruitment personnel and also with the hiring manager. The
person who is in charge of making the final decision and designing the job does not put insufficient
efforts to find the right candidates for the post. The hiring manager picks a candidate by personal
characteristics instead of a professional one and hence failed to use effective interview tactics. Due to
this reason, the HR Management faces a problem in recruiting the right staff for the desired position.
Hence, they failed to choose the qualified as well as right candidates for the job role. The HR
Management always possesses problem in the quality of the candidates, particularly in the changing
environment where increasing educational requirements, awareness of global economics as well as new
technologies are in high demand.
Another major issue faces by the HR Management team regarding recruiting procedure is that the HR
managers or professions often find themselves stuck when they are not receiving the correct resume
from the candidates that they are looking for. Benefits, compensation as well as the working
environment are all the major key factors possess in employee recruitment (Guerci, Montanari,
Scapolan, & Epifanio, 2016). In any tough economy, many HR management teams decided to cut some
benefits, and this makes them difficult to attract the best candidates. Thus when the benefits package is
not excellent, then the employees will leave soon as they get a better opportunity or offer. Hence, this is
considered one of the major issue faced by the HR management team of a business (Pawlik, &
Neumann, 2015). Apart from this HR department are often face challenges of screening employees for
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