Business Report: GDPR, HR Roles, and Career Progression Analysis

This report delves into the core concepts of understanding business, analyzing the significance of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and its impact on businesses and customers. It explores the role of the GDPR framework in ensuring data security and its associated benefits, such as enhanced cybersecurity, improved data protection, and increased marketing ROI. Furthermore, the report examines the responsibilities and roles of an HR manager, including recruitment, selection, training, and development, and how digital marketing supports these functions. It also highlights the importance of the legal department in relation to HR practices, emphasizing compliance with employment laws. The report concludes by discussing career progression for HR managers, including salary increases and opportunities for advancement.

Understanding
Business
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Question 2 Business and Society/Law...................................................................................3
Question 4 Planning your Career...........................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Understanding business can be described as to analyse aspects of conducting business concern
by gaining appropriate knowledge to gain better outcomes. It include to manage overall
operational activities and procedures in more effective as well as efficient manner in order to
attain set goals of business (Storey, 2016). The present report will focus on business and society
including GDPR and its impacts on businesses with associated benefits for business concern &
customers. It will also include effects of digital marketing in selected career and main roles of
HR department. The role of legal department in daily operations of business and progression
prospects in career path or salary scale is given below.
MAIN BODY
Question 2 Business and Society/Law
The GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation which can be considered as a legal
framework that consist guidelines for collection and processing of personal information of
individuals within European Union (EU). Basically, it includes several principles for data
management and rights of a person while also imposing fines which can be revenue based.
However, it is necessary for every organisation to follow guidelines provided by EU for securing
information as it is a critical regulation for corporate compliance offices at banks, insurers and
other financial companies. However, GDPR has effects beyond lending, insurance and other
firms at the time of collecting and processing personal data of an individual. In addition to this,
these guidelines are helpful to human resources of companies and their IP address of individuals
using online who were utilising online services respectively. Moreover, this framework is
responsible for building rights is securing information and maintain confidentiality of personal
information (Quinlan and et. Al, 2019).
There are various kinds of challenges that are associated with GDPR as the decision
making to apply the same can come with criticism. It includes effective guidelines which are
mainly connected with social networks and cloud provider but it did not consider the appropriate
way to deal with data related to staff members. Meanwhile, this legal framework provides a strict
rule that employee data cannot be transferred to those countries which are not the part of
European Union. Moreover, it is observed that cost linked with proposed regulation of GDPR
could also boost up over time because of requirement of additional investment. In addition to
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this, general information related to education regarding data protection is also necessary many
times. Furthermore, it has been analysed by EU that there was also concerned that data
protection agencies need to agree to standard level of security.
Considering above concept of GDPR which can be considered as new and effective
regulation for protecting data that puts consumer at driver’s seat as this framework is required to
be complying by business and organisations. However, it is helpful for employees and customers
to secure their personal data and get control to maintain confidentiality of their information
(Quinton and Wilson, 2016). At the other hand, the GDPR framework include accurate
guidelines which provide support to business concern in order to secure their information that is
very important for them to remain their strategies secret for achieving better profit share in
market. There are various types of benefits gained by organisations by applying guidelines of
GDPR which facilitate to make operations and techniques more unique and effective in respect
of increasing profitability in proper way. Initially, GDPR provide benefits of enhancing cyber
security with the help of security data from theft as well as loss of critical information which is
very important for business growth and success respectively. It will facilitate to control over IT
infrastructure and build healthier data protection workflows along with streamline security for
companies.
Secondly, it will give profits of improving data protection by minimising information and collect
and hold by which better organising storages ad refine data management process can be done in
proper manner. It is helpful to secure data of customers in accurate way which facilitate to
increasing trust of people on brand which boost up goodwill of business organisation. Thirdly,
GDPR is beneficial in terms of gaining increased marketing return of investment (ROT) by
making particular techniques secret and achieve more profits by improving number of sales. It
will combines with purging irrelevant ROT information stalling marketing of specific brand such
as lost leads or unengaged addresses receiving a lean and customers that genuinely want to hear
from company. However, it is helpful to boost up loyalty of audiences & trust which make sure
long term profits for company (Wolfson, 2017). Moreover, it will facilitate to become first to
establish new business culture in market which make unique identity of brand among customers.
Analysing above discussion regarding benefits of GDPR for business in order to improve
customers loyalty and profits, it is well known that GDPR is favourable for organisations,
however, it has been evaluated that GDPR provide various benefits to consumers also in order
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get easy access to government authorities to gain solutions of their related problems accordingly.
Firstly, it will provide support to people in context of improving their confidence as they have
trust about ensuring necessary framework in place to keep data subject’s personally identifiable
information safe. Secondly, GDPR give better data security which make client comfortable and
confident. Moreover, it helps by reducing maintenance cost and facilitate better alignment with
evolving technology along with making people much capable of greater decision making
properly.
Question 4 Planning your Career
By selecting career as an HR manager, it is very reputed designation in any organisation
including various roles and responsibilities regarding recruitment, employee appraisal,
promotion, salary issues and many more. This position requires several effective skills and
abilities like effective communication, resolve conflicts, manage employee relations, polite
behaviours and effective personality (Olszak, 2016). Digital marketing is very beneficial for HR
manager through which they can place advertisements of vacancies online to conduct hire
desired staff members. It is helpful to deliver important official documents to candidates and
collect their essential documents for joining through online mode which save time and cost.
However, company page or website can be created by HR department to update information
about company which become mode of marketing and people can gather information from there
along with putting their queries or feedbacks which are beneficial for improving operations.
The HR manager plays various kinds of roles which are mainly associated to work force
of an organisation regarding their hiring, appraisal, promotion, training and many more. Initially,
the very important role of HR manger is recruitment and selection for which they will conduct
campus dives and walk in interviews which are helpful to hire desired candidate for specific
designation. It is essential to thoroughly analyse skills and experience of an individual so that
they can properly complete required roles and responsibilities which facilitate to fulfil set goals
of business with better outcomes respectively (McNamee, Pearson and Boer, 2015). Moreover,
training and development is another significant role of HR manger as it make sure improved
efficiency of staff members which helps to increase productivity as well as profitability. They
have a role to analyse actual need of conducting carrying out learning programs for employees as
it is beneficial for organisational objectives as well as personal growth of ever worker.
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At the other hand, legal department plays an important role for HR manager as there are
various types of legislation made by government which are required to be followed while
conducting related activities and procedures. It consist different regulations like employment
law, health & safety act, equality act and many more which should be followed by HR manager
while making decision for salary, promotion, incentives etc. However, it is necessary ensure
health and security of employees at work place along with maintaining equality while providing
compensation. They have to make sure that every workers get fair & desired compensation and
other benefits.
The career as an HR manager is very bright and it will provide various opportunities to gain
more growth and success. According to increasing work experience, salary and compensation
will improve accordingly which is helpful to gain an appropriate life. However, pay scale will
become increased by achieving perfection in this field which provide promotions and transfers
that will become an effective opportunity in order to gain success in professional life by having
bright career and that will also impact positively on personal life in order to improve living of
standards. Moreover, the better and perfect skills along with an effective working experience will
helpful to gain appropriate opportunities to get higher positions which improve reputation in
society and at work place respectively.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that understanding business can be considered
as to gain knowledge about related aspects of the same. It includes gaining desired knowledge
about to conduct business operations by learning skills to run company with gaining better
outcomes. However, GDPR is an effective framework which is beneficial for both organisation
and customers in order to secure data in proper way. In addition to this, it consist career of HR
manger with roles including recruitment & selection and training and development which is
essential to have desired workforce along with increasing their skills to gain better profits.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Storey, D.J., 2016. Understanding the small business sector. Routledge.
Quinlan, C and et, al., 2019. Business research methods. South Western Cengage.
Quinton, S. and Wilson, D., 2016. Tensions and ties in social media networks: Towards a model
of understanding business relationship development and business performance enhancement
through the use of LinkedIn. Industrial Marketing Management, 54, pp.15-24.
Wolfson, M.H., 2017. Financial crises: Understanding the postwar US experience. Routledge.
Olszak, C.M., 2016. Toward better understanding and use of Business Intelligence in
organizations. Information Systems Management, 33(2), pp.105-123.
McNamee, T., Pearson, M. and Boer, W. eds., 2015. Africans investing in Africa: Understanding
business and trade, sector by sector. Springer.
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