HRES2201 Reflective Paper: HRM, Dream Job, and Workplace Application

This assignment is a reflective paper exploring the student's understanding of Human Resource Management (HRM) and its significance. The paper begins by defining HRM and highlighting its importance, drawing from the course materials. The core of the assignment involves the student's personal reflection on their "dream job", discussing what constitutes fulfilling work and outlining their top five expectations from an employer. The student, currently working in a junior engineer role, relates their experiences within a multinational company, detailing the company's HRM policies, including training, flexible leave, and employee engagement programs. The paper then applies these HRM policies to the workplace, highlighting the recruitment, training, and performance management processes. It addresses key demographic issues, specifically focusing on generation gaps and their impact. Finally, the paper considers future implications, suggesting that organizations need to amend their HRM policies regarding training and development to address the evolving needs of the workforce and concludes by emphasizing the importance of HRM in fostering employee development and organizational growth, as well as its role in retaining talent.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction:
Human resource management can be considered as a set of policies, practices, or
integrated system, that are designed for the purpose of effective deployment as well as
development of employees within an organization. It can be said that, the study of human
resource management is essential to build a skilled, knowledgeable as well as motivated base of
employees (Peacock, 2019).
Your dream job:
My dream job is the job of a computer engineer. Since my childhood, I am passionate
about coding. According to my point of view, fulfilling and meaningful work refer to the ability
of an employee to contribute actively in the achievement of the organizational goals by
accomplishing his or her individual goals and enhancing the meaning of the services he or she
provides to the organization through excellent performance. The five top expectation, I have
from my employer are: respect, reception of equal treatment like all other employees of the same
rank, job security, effective communication and understanding, motivation as well as
recognition. I am blessed enough that I am able to find out my dream job a couple of months
ago. Currently I am assigned to the position of a junior engineer in a reputed Multi-National
Company (Peacock, 2019). The human resource policies of the company are designed in such a
way that, employees are provided with lots of opportunities to grow their potentialities. At the
end of every moths, the flaws of the newly joined employees are highlighted and they are given
enough training to rectify their flaws. Further the leave policies are so flexible that employees
can easily maintain their work-life balance. For example, parents who are expecting their babies
are given paid maternity as well as paternity leaves. They also provide employees who have

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families emergency leaves, medical benefits like discounts in health checkup and critical
operations, work from home facilities in case of health issues. The team leaders as well as human
resource managers motivates employees. The Human resource policies also consist of the
opportunities for promotion and recognition for excellent performance. Further the company also
arranges for employee engagement programs like indoor games and annual parties (Peacock,
2019). It is true that there is work pressure but the stress relieving benefits that the company
provides to the employees dilutes the negative impacts of the workload. These are the reasons
why I consider this job as my dream job. The growth opportunities, training programs conducted
by the companies has assisted me to improve as an engineer I have achieved the ability to design
software programing flawlessly. This in turn guided me to achieve the satisfaction latent in the
fulfilling work. All these have enhanced the meaning or values of the services I provided to the
company.
Application to the workplace:
The application of the human resource policies in the workplace reflects through the
recruitment as well as selection process and also in the process of training conducted by the
human resource managers to help the new employees to grow their potentialities, Finally the
application of the human resource policies also reflects in the introduction of the assessment as
well as performance management programs by the human resource managers (Peacock, 2019).
Hence, the implementation of four processes as well as practices that the human resource
managers are responsible for are – recruitment, selection, and training and performance
management.
Key demographic:

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One of the four key issues related to the demographic areas that may arise within the
workplace, is the, issues related to the diversity in the age group, or issues related to generation
gaps. Other key issues are: issues related to the gender discrimination at the workplace, issues
related to the diverse cultural background of the employees and the issues related to the skills as
well as labor shortage (Peacock, 2019). I have experienced two of the key issues- one is the
problems in the mentality and perception of the employees induced by differences in age or
generation gap. The problem I witnessed, in my previous organization, was induced by the
generation gap and difference in the work procedure of two employees belonging to the same
team. The issue was caused due to the focus of the younger employee on smart work and the
older employee on hard work only, the impact of the issue is multiplied due to the difference
between the technical skills between the employees. This issue changed my way of thinking
regarding application of human resource practices in the case of workplace.
What's in the future?
I believe that, for the prevention of this type of issues in future, every organization needs
to amend the human resource policies regarding training and development and the employees
from older generation should be educated about the importance of smart work and they should be
undergone technical skill enhancement programs, this will not only nourish the potentialities of
the older employees but also make them capable of exploring the employment options that will
be available in next five years-Application software developers, hackers, market specialists and
so on (Peacock, 2019).

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Conclusion:
In the conclusion, it can be said that, Human Resource Policies can be regarded as
significant practices that foster the development of the employees and accelerates the growth of
an organization. Ideal human resource policies assist the employees to maintain a balance in their
professional as well as personal lives, thereby contributes substantially in the retention of talents
within an organization.

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References:
Peacock, M., (2019). Understanding Human Resources Management a Canadian Perspective.
Nelson Education Ltd.

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