Human Resource Management Assignment : Amazon Inc
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Running Head: Human Resource Management AMAZON INC.Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management 1Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................2Major challenges for HR managers..............................................................................................................2Best practices in relation with challenges faced by HR managers...............................................................2Suggestions and Recommendations............................................................................................................2Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................2References...................................................................................................................................................3
Human Resource Management 2Introduction Amazon Inc. is an American e-commerce and cloud computing organization headquartered inSeattle, Washington, U.S. Company was founded by the most innovative leader of this era JeffBezos on 5th July 1994. Initially, organization was started from a garage by selling books whichlater on becomes the largest online shopping website across the globe in terms of revenues.Today, the company delivers more than a million goods over their website in more than 168countries and it is present in more than 12 countries across the globe. Every company's successand growth is dependent on its employees' and leader's talent, knowledge and experience.Amazon has Jeff Bezos which is the most innovative and skilled leader of this era. He dreamt ofselling products and services over internet and today he living his dream. In relation with this,Jeff Bezos believes in bringing his staff up along with himself and in relation with this, hisexpectations from his employees are bit high in comparison with other leaders' (Amazon Inc.,2018).To manage organizational operations in an effective manner, appointment and management ofemployees is an effective approach. Thus, human resource management plays vital role in doingso. In relation with this, recruitment and selection activity must be performed in the mostappropriate manner so that the right person could be appointed at the right position with theobjective of originating better outcomes (Shackleton, 2015). In this report, human resourcemanagement’s one of the primary activity will be discussed i.e. Recruitment & Selection withregards to analysing its effectiveness and efficiency. Further, report will move towardsdetermining the challenges and issues faced by HR managers of Amazon while appointing andselecting the candidates for specified positions. Next phase of the report will focus on bestpractices in relation to mitigate the challenges and recommendations with regards to improve theefficiency of recruitment and selection procedure.Major challenges for HR managersIt has been observed that while hiring new candidates, HR managers and specialists facesnumerous challenges. But it is the duty and responsibility for HR managers to tackle theseobstacles in order to search great and talented candidates for the organization who could fit as the
Human Resource Management 3best for the vacant position (Taylor, 2014). Following are some of those challenges which arefaced by HR professionals while executing recruitment and selection activity:Lack of enough resources: HR managers need to perform their activities with theavailable resources and sometimes, these resources do not act as enough to perform theactivities in the appropriate manner. For example lack of budget in relation to postingads over internet and other trending recruitment spots and they need to use traditionalrecruiting channels and free job boards to invite candidates. This leads to a bigchallenge for the HR managers to find the qualified and talented candidates. In relationwith Amazon Inc., there is sufficient budget is provided to the HR department so thatthe most eligible candidate could be appointed over vacant position in relation with theaccomplishment of organizational goals and objectives (Kurtz & William, 2017).But there are several other challenges which HR managers of Amazon face such asfinding innovative, efficient and talented candidates, finding consistent employees, etc.HR managers of Amazon use improvised and trending techniques to appoint innovativeand creative candidates who come up with an extra ordinary idea of enhancingorganizational performance. Finding innovation and creative skills in candidates leadsto a long and complex process of recruitment and selection under which 60% ofcandidates give up in between the process. This left the HR managers with few optionsto select the most appropriate candidate as per organizational requirement (Chaneta,2014).Transparency versus Effectiveness: Amongst HR professionals across the globe,transparency has gained the peak place. This is done to impress the applicants andprimary objective behind this is that the more transparent company will be the highreliability will be developed amongst applicants (Cascio, 2018). In relation with this,HR managers need to make boundaries so that only that much information is providedto the applicants which are necessary for the applicants otherwise, it could affectapplicant's overall performance because it will showcase high expectations of companyfrom candidates. In this concern, HR managers in Amazon are not able to findappropriate options as per the requirements for vacant position. In this regard, HRManagers needs to appoint from the few options left and it leads to risk that the
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