Assignment on What about Human Resource Management

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Human resource management is the strategic approach which leads effective management
of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive
advantage. It is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's
strategic objectives. Human resource department takes various initiatives in managing the
employees in the organization which includes training and development, reward management,
talent management as well as by adopting the human resource practice, so that employee will
feel motivated (Noe R. A., Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2015). However, still various
challenges faced by the organization while managing and retaining the employee in effective
manner (Shen & Benson, 2016). Therefore, in this essay, the education sector is selected and
various challenges which is faced by the sector in retaining and attracting of employees is
discussed.
The education sector is considered the system of education in which the group of
institutions such as schools, local educational authorities major aim is to offer education to
children as well as young people in the education setting. However, due to increase in the
competition, the education sector does expansion, development and innovation (Hewett, Shantz,
Mundy, & Alfes, 2018). This is the reason it become difficult for the sector to attract and retain
the competent employee in the organization, so that they can provide high level of professional
education to the students. However, various challenges faced by the education sector such as the
education sector also finds difficulty in attracting the new employees because of various reasons
such as high workload, job insecurity, insufficiency in the reward, recognition, funds as well as
resources (Stone & Deadrick, 2015). The other reason leads inadequate practices of management
and inadequacy in other faculty programs. However; the turnover rate in education sector is also
high because of increase in the institutions in Australia up to 22% in the year 2017. Therefore it
is difficult in recruiting and retaining high level of competent employees because of high
competition in the market, for this they need competent and talented employees which provides
education according to the needs and requirement of the students (Baum, 2015). However, it
becomes costly for the education institutions because of high expenditure in providing the
training to the employees. It is estimated that the education sector in Australia spends up to $25.9
billion in the training and replacement of employees (Tyagi, Singh, & Aggarwal, 2017).
However, it is become challenge for the institutions to find the competent employees because in
the education sector, companies find difficulty in searching the employees which have the ability
of professional skills, interpersonal relations skills, and better traits of leadership. Therefore, for

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recruiting and attracting the new employees in the education sector, it finds challenge in
searching the employees according to the requirements of the position as well as high rate of
funds spends in providing training to the employees (McCaffery, 2018).
From the articles reviewed, it finds that several institutional challenges leads difficulty in
retaining and motivating the professional teachers in the institutions such as discrimination
among the disabled individual which decreases the satisfaction level of the person. However,
reduction in the motivation negatively influences the retention of teachers (Lincoln, et al., 2014).
The imbalances in the system of rewards as well as high level of stress it is due to the increase in
competition among the students, so it significant for the teacher to provide high level of
education. However, this results in increases in the stress level among the teacher of the
institutions. In the Australian universities, there are lower opportunities of growth for the
professional teachers; however, it directly influenced the development of the universities (Noe,
Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2017). It is mainly for the young employees, which are playing a
major role for the growth of universities, in Australia the rate of young employees are higher
who all are dissatisfied because of lower opportunities of learning and development. It shows
that institutions have lack of planning about the workforce in the changing environment (Shen &
Benson, 2016). It is because nowadays because of high competition in the marketplace, some of
education universities in Australia such as Monash University, University of Melbourne finds
difficulty in retaining the old employees and attracting new one. Monash University also finds
challenging in retaining the employees by adopting the approach of reward management by
providing the staff discounts. However, this strategy is adopted by the company to motivate the
competent employees so that they feel motivated as well as to retain the existing employees
(Hecklau, Galeitzke, Flachs, & Kohl, 2016). Through this other members which is not performed
according to the satisfactory level gets dissatisfied, it become challenge to motivate and retain
those employees to performed efficient and results in the problem for both employees as well as
organization. Therefore articles describes that it is difficult to retain and motivate the teachers in
the Australian universities. However, it also has relationship with the development of educational
institutions because reduction in the motivation level leads difficulty in retaining as well as
attracting the talent in the institutions. This results in influencing the institutions in negative
manner.
The challenges which education sector find in retaining as well as attracting the
employees of organization, when it does not follow the human resources practices. However,