Human Resource Management Assessment | Questions and Answers

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

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Question 1. Answer
The Garavan, Russ-Eft solution and Brinkerhoff’s solutions to maintaining the integrity of
the HRD evaluation systems are effective. It can be said in terms of the fact that it ensures
that individual’s performance is evaluated in a more respectable manner. It is crucial that
long term outcomes of the evaluation program also have to be managed in an effective
manner so that employees remain competent (Brinkerhoff, 1988). The solutions to safeguard
and maintain the integrity of the HRD evaluation process, there is a need of bring more
technology angle to it. The HRD evaluation process should check all the factors that are
lowering someone’s performance and accordingly they must design the training and
development program which improves the performance of each and every employee. The
HRD evaluation process should highlight both negative and positive side of the employee’s
performance (Garavan, 1995). This is critical for the management of the performance as if
only the positive side of the employee’s performance will come out then company will not be
able to make improvements in them. Maintaining the confidentiality is a must in the
development of the HRD evaluation process. In this regards the role of the philosophies,
expectation and values becomes highly critical. If the evaluation process will be designed by
engaging the employees as well then there is a better chance that such challenges related to
the values and philosophies can be removed. These solutions also idealise the results not only
in terms of the organisation’s expectations but also in terms of removing the intermediates
that is having impact on the individual’s performance (Russ-Eft, 2009).
Question 2. Answer
E-learning is an effective mechanism for training and improving the performance of the
employees (Anderson, 2010). However in every organisation it is not every employee have
the same understanding about the e-learning which creates a challenge for the people to learn
and grow. In the last firm in which I was working was a manufacturing firm. In that firm
there were many employees working that were not so comfortable in the e-learning
mechanism especially the modules that were provided to them. It was due to this that they
were unable to learn at the pace with which other employees that were younger were easily
learning. This created a gap between the performance of the employees that was comfortable
with the e-learning mechanism and the employees that were unable to use it effectively. Even