HRMG203 Human Resource Management (HRM) Challenges
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Human resource management1Reflective Essay:Recruitment& selection, work life balance and managing diversity are the challenging activities of human resource management. The paper will focus on reflection upon the above-stated topics. Recruitment can be defined as attracting a pool of talent to the organisation (Banu and Devi, 2014). Selection can be defined as choosing the best suitable candidate fromthe above pool of talent (Ekwoaba, Ikeije, and Ufoma, 2015). Work life balance is a situation of attaining equilibrium in work commitments and personal responsibilities (Haar, Russo, Suñe and Ollier-Malaterre, 2014).Workforce diversity can be described as the similarities and differences that exist among the workforce. These can be in terms of culture, physical abilities gender, race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation (Saxena, 2014).I learned about them and their various applications during my college. In my college, we were given a project. The project included tasks related to arts, management and information technology. There were five team leads and five assistant team leads in the class. Team leads had to recruit and select students from rest of the college and one assistant were given to them for any kind of help. Initially by learning about the process of recruitment and selection I though this is an easy process but after working on it practically I realised the process is much more challenging than it seems. This basic reason which made the task challenging was competition in the class for hiring the best ones and deciding whether the particular candidate will be able to accomplish the task or not. I had to face this challenge the college level but I realised that in the real market places the completion would at much greater skill making the process challenging for managers. I and my assistant, first of all, drafted what arethe requirements of the project and what type of work needs to be done. After drafting the jobrequirements I designed various posters in electronic format to attract students from different departments. I highlighted the benefits that students can get by participating in our project and how could this experience be helpful to them. I circulated this opportunity with the help of social media. The next thing that was required to be done was sourcing. Sourcing here wasnot much challenging as I had to pick the students only from the college. I tried to reach suitable candidates through social media and also with the referrals of our friends. After this, I received applications from the interested students. My focus was more on the recruitment task so that I can get a large number of potential candidates. For selection to be effective it is necessary to have a large number of potential candidates to choose from. It is also very important to ensure that the selection procedure should be fair so that organisation has chances to attract talented workforce in the coming future. (Nabi, Wei, Husheng, Shabbir, Altaf, and Zhao, 2014). According to applications, I did the initial screening. I choose the applications that can fulfil the tasks of the project and rejected the rest. After the initial screening, I had a telephonic conversation with the selected candidates. On the basis of telephonic conversation, some more candidates were rejected due to different reasons. A lot of selected candidates was now called for personal interview. Drafting the questionnaire for the personal interview was the much challenging task. I drafted the questionnaire for the jobs related to my subject knowledge and took help from the people of other departments for rest of the interview questionnaires. On the day of the final interview, I was more nervous than the students but I gathered the strength and went ahead for the
Human resource management2process. I interviewed different candidates with different skill set and aspirations. After the interview process, I gave a deep thought to each candidate and on the basis of the aggregate of their positives and negatives I selected the best suitable candidates. I communicated them about this over the phone and gave them the time of two days to respond. Out of the candidates that I had selected few were hired by others also. Majority of the students acceptedthe offer whereas few denied. At the time of the interview, I had also prepared the list of nextbest alternatives. I approached those candidates and gave them the offer. Those candidates accepted the offer. Next day I organised the meeting of selected team members and introduced them to each other and their respective tasks. The procedure that I career helped me to learn various things. I helped me to develop my interpersonal skills. I learned how to get over nervousness and move ahead. The experience taught me the polite way of refusing the people, so that scope for approaching them in future still remains. This practical experience gave me a basic idea of what are the potential issues that can occur and how managers handle various issues at an organisational level. It also gave me a basic practical knowledge of the process. My next experience with the recruitment and selection was at the time of my internship. The process but on a vast scale, something that was new to me was the system of recruitment of the organisation. The organisation had e recruitment system. This system recruits the people online with the use of web technologies. For the organisations dealing in a competitive world,it is regarded as a boon. It provides ease and various other advantages over traditional methods (Lakshmi, 2014).While handling the e recruitment system I learned how the process of recruitment can be made easy with the use of technology. I also analysed that the cost that was incurred in the traditional recruitment process was much higher than the e recruitment process. The only drawback that I found with the system is that checking the authenticity in the online recruitment process is challenging. Also, it is solely dependent on the internet, therefore, any disturbance in the technology can affect the process.During my internship, I came across the issues of managing workforce diversity and various work life balance related issues of the organisation. I was an intern in the HR department of the organisation. My organisation was an MNC and the employees it belonged to various nations, ethnicity and races. Interning in the HRM department of the organisation helped me to know how diversity can be useful for the organisation and how it can create issues for the organisation. My task was basically to assist my manager and clearly, observe what he does in different situations. Our organisation had an issue that leaves policy of the company was allowed leaves only on the occasions and national holidays of the native country. This createdthe problem for employees who belonged to other cultures and nationalities. This resulted in a reduced organisational commitment from the expatriates. To overcome this issue manager came with the policy of voluntary leaves for all. According to this policy, employees were given a fixed number of leaves which they can take voluntarily. This created harmony amongst the diverse workforce. Their organisational commitment also increased as they thought that organisation also respects and understands their needs. Throughout my training period, I observed that diverse workforce was beneficial in bringing the creativity and innovation to the organisation. I have seen people coming up with different productive ideas
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