Human Resource Management and Corporate Social Responsibility

Human Resource Management
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Human Resource Management
Executive summary
The report aims at examining the organizational attempt to maintain the degree of corporate
social responsibility as a part of business ethics. The report further aims at understanding the
role of Human resource management in implementing the occupation health and safety in the
organization with the recruitment of an excellent workforce and training that will help in
awareness of business ethics and corporate social responsibility. The study deduced the
several HRM area and it effectiveness in organizational context. The major 3 area had been
chosen for influencing the adequacy of the study. The major three areas included the
recruitment, training and occupational safety, and health. These three factors play the vital
role to influence the HRM value in organizational context.
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Human Resource Management
Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................4
Business Overview................................................................................................................................4
Occupational health and safety as an area of HRM...............................................................................5
Training as an Area HRM......................................................................................................................6
Recruitment as an Area of HRM...........................................................................................................7
Recommendations.................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
Reference List......................................................................................................................................10
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Human Resource Management
Introduction
The report aims at depicting the functions of Human resource management in the context of
business ethics. Human Resource Management is an essential part of an organization. It is a
strategic approach to managing the organizational activities effectively in such a fashion that
the company gains a competitive advantage over the rival company. The HRM of an
organization helps to maximize performance and profitability of the organization. It is with
an ultimate goal to the overall progress of the company in the existing structure with an active
market expansion policy. The HRM includes recruitment, training and occupational health
and safety of the employee with particular focus on business ethics and corporate social
responsibility that become the foundation of all organizations to exist in the socio-political
context of the organization. The business ethic is maintained in all HRM activities of the
organization for the recent initiative at the global level. The global scenario faces the crisis of
a competent workforce, and the labour market became more complicated with the growth of
technology in the context where the necessity of business ethic is to be maintained strictly.
Business Overview
Business ethics is a type of study that directs the organization to follow appropriate practices
and policies in connection with the incredibly diverse subjects like insider trading,
discrimination, corporate governance and fiduciary responsibilities (Ferrell & Fraedrich,
2015). CSR, as a part of business ethics, directs the company and the top-level executives to
deal sensitive issues regarding the health and safety of the workforce and the environmental
problems of the surrounding (Humanrights.gov.au, 2019). The concept of corporate social
responsibility is one of the most controversial ideas in all business organization. Following
corporate social responsibility is a challenge to the organization. Corporate social
responsibility is a part of business ethics that are required to be followed. CSR decreases the
profitability of the company. Occupational health and safety is a part of the corporate social
responsibility of the organization (Testa and D’Amato, 2017). In the occupational health and
safety system, the organization provides necessary equipment and supervisions to the workers
to maintain a safe workplace and protect the workforce from all sorts of dangers that emanate
from the work.
The corporate social responsibility focuses and takes the company to follow the labour law.
The labour law directs the company to provide better and suitable wages to the worker to
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