HRM 3014: Contemporary Issues in Managing a Workforce
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HRM3014 Short AnswerQuestions (you mustanswer 6 from the 8questions)
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................11. Stereotype threat and how can managers reduce it..................................................................12. The ways in which biases toward or stereotypes about women manifest themselves in theworkplace.....................................................................................................................................33. Meaning of stigma and influence the extent to which employees with disabilities areaccepted by their co-workers.......................................................................................................44. Gender quotas for boards of directors an effective way of increasing the representation ofwomen in senior leadership positions..........................................................................................55. Fault lines and impact on performance of a diverse work group, and the ways in whichdiversity beliefs help to overcome the impact.............................................................................66. Images of diversity or information about diversity initiatives in organisations’ recruitmentadvertising likely to be effective in attracting job applicants from under-represented groups....7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource management is an approach for effectively managing people atworkplace which helps the organisation to gain competitive advantage (Kim and Bae, 2017). Itincludes activities performed by human resource manager such as recruiting, staffing,orientation, training and development, inducement, performance appraisal, compensation,motivation, maintaining relationships, ensuring safety, talent management, succession planning,labour law compliance and so on. It encompasses management functions based on planning,organising, staffing, directing and controlling. To understand aspects of human resourcemanagement, Rio Tinto is selected. The headquarters of the company are located at London,United Kingdom and is a mining as well as metal corporation. The report includes stereotypethreat and ways to manage it. It further includes ways in which biases toward or stereotypesabout women manifest themselves at workplace, description of stigma along with its influence atthe extent to which employees with disabilities are accepted by their co-workers along withgender quotas for boards of directors an effective way of increasing the representation of womenin senior leadership positions. It further includes fault lines as well as its impact on performanceof a diverse work group, and the ways in which diversity beliefs help to overcome such impactalong with usage of images of diversity or information about diversity initiatives inorganisations’ recruitment advertising likely to be effective in attracting job applicants fromunder-represented groups. Lastly, it includes MAIN BODY1. Stereotype threat and how can managers reduce it.Stereotype threat is a psychological threat which arises when a member is in a situationwhich results in negative stereotype. Meaning of stereotype determines people, activities as wellas situations which are applied and causes a sense of threat. In other words, it is a situation inwhich people feel themselves as a part of risk based on conforming to stereotype according topertaining social group. These are stressful and at the same time distract people from work whichresults in low productivity (Roberson and Kulik, 2007). It is a fear within employees of beingjudged as per the negative traits, characteristics as well as attributes of social group along with itsmembers. Such threat affects members of Rio Tinto and its effects are variable in different1
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