MG410 Career Viewpoint: HR Manager Profession Analysis and Evaluation

This report, titled "MG410 Career Viewpoint," provides a comprehensive analysis of the HR manager profession. It begins with an introduction to the concept of a career and its significance, followed by an analysis of the HR manager role, including job responsibilities such as recruitment, screening, and coordination of enterprise functions. The report delves into general trends affecting the profession, such as compliance with employment laws, changes in management, training and development, and the adoption of innovation. It also highlights the essential skills and knowledge required for HR managers, including communication, decision-making, budgeting, and empathy. The report emphasizes the importance of HRM cognition, expertise, and knowledge of HRIS. The evaluation section discusses the impact of these skills on conflict resolution, strategic planning, and employee turnover. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the significance of adaptability and skill development in the evolving field of HR management. References to academic journals and books are included.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ANALYSIS as well as APPLICATION..........................................................................................1
General trends which effect profession........................................................................................1
Skills/ cognition as well as experience which are needed..........................................................2
EVALUATION................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Career implies to profession or job which a person do for a long period of time in their
life (Merluzzi and Burt, 2020) . The deliver a path which ensures of progress to individuals in
their respective field of profession. In is comprised of various various jobs in which a person
works, what he or she has earned from that and what work they have accomplished throughout
their professional life. It is a procedure which involves evolution of career as well as
advancement in the chosen professional field. For this report profession of HR manger is
consider and this field embrace vision, values, norms, ideals, language of working, systems as
well as habits which aid in working with groups. This occupation is accountable for recruitments,
screening, interviews as well as placement of workers. HR manger form, direct as well as
coordinate the entire functions of an enterprise. This report includes general trends which impact
the profession of HR manger along with skills as well as experience which are required for this
respective field.
ANALYSIS as well as APPLICATION
General trends which effect profession
Management of human resource implies to certain fixed work which intent at managing the
employees of an enterprise in an effectual manner. The mangers of this profession supervise
operations like compensation, welfare, grooming as well as improvement, staffing, and so on
which are for the welfare of the workers. They construct the shape of staffing programs such as
recruitment as well as retention of the best workers so that they can work for their respective
employers (Lambrecht and Tucker, 2019). It is the main element of an enterprise as this
department is widely involve in determining of employees goals, assist them to stay cultivable,
it brings diversity in the workplace. Due to emerging trends this profession is also struggling
with some difficulties which are mention as under:
Compliance with laws as well as regulation: Modification in laws of employment
becomes a struggling situation for the owners of the entities. In this regard HR mangers require
to manage to such type of alterations in so that they can avoid lawsuits.
Changes in management: With expansion in business it is hilly require that enterprises
form new plan of action, inner process as well as structure. In relation to HR managers, some
times it is tricky to make employees adjust to these changes.
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Training as well as development in workforce: Training along with development is an
asset for for an enterprise. For HR managers it is somehow difficult to mange resources to do so
and deliver training to their workers.
Adoption of innovation: With the constant change in technology it is open the scope of
new ideas as well as of transformation of the existing product but at the same time it is
becoming very difficult for HR managers to grasp employees to contribute to innovation and get
familiar to new technology.
Changes are require to enhance performances which may impact in positive or in
negative way. For HR mangers, it is necessary to analyse these changes and to preform their
strategies accordingly (Giraud, Bernard and Trinchera, 2019).
Skills/ cognition as well as experience which are needed
HR professional person who attain in depth cognition regarding this profession create more
opportunities foe themself in corporate world. The skills which are needed to become a good HR
manager are explain underneath:-
Written as well as communication skills: It is very essential of HR to clearly express
himself through both oral as well as written means. They are requires to meet as well as to talk
with huge number of people and his or her communication skill will assist them to generate trust
as well as confidence of the all those people to whom they meet. They are responsible in
designing as well as producing handbooks along with displaying memos so that employees can
be benefited and this require good skills of handwriting.
Decision making: The involvement of HR mangers in decision making is very high like
if they take good decisions during the process of recruitment, they will be selecting right person.
This recognition of talent cannot be learnt easily as it need experience along with intuitions.
They should be capable enough to take secure judgements which will aid enterprises to come out
from any critical situation. They should be blessed with skills of judgements so they they can
make effective decisions which will enhance their as well as company performance(Lee, Lee and
Dopson, 2019).
Budgeting: The process of compensation as well as benefits goes from the path of HR
and this same occur in activities which are social, appraisal of performances, training along with
development and many more. The implementation of these practices in the framework of the
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enterprises plays an crucial part as formation of plans, measurement of funds and maintained of
accounts all are done by the HR of the entities. The goal of a HR is to reduce the expenses as
well as not to spend more so that the unnecessary activities can be avoided. They are require to
have budgeting skills so that they can easily analyse where they are require to investemtn and
from where they need to pull off their money (Straub, Vinkenburg and van Kleef, 2020) .
Empathetic: HR professionals meet so many people in there day to day activates and
they have to solve their problems like conflicts, complaints, salary and so on. Managers are
require to have this skill so that they can guarantee the proper understanding relating to each and
every individual before making any judgements regarding them. They are liable to listen to the
problems of workers and deliver proper solution so that any difficulty can be avoided which
originate in the workplace.
Apart from the above mention skills there are certain knowledge which HR mangers need
have so that they can perform their functions very well. These are as following:-
Cognition of HRM along with expertise: Cognition of HRM as well as expertise are the
most r effective and essential skills relating to HR. In this regard experiences reacting to previous
jobs are extremely useful. With the aid of HRM learning background its mangers can generate
soft skills which will assist in the communicating as well as in coaching also(Bridgstock, Grant-
Iramuand McAlpine, 2019).
Cognition of HRIS: It can be define as digital equivalent of the human resource
management as it contains many information relating to recruitment, assessment of performance,
sum of money, rewards along with benefits and many more. The study of this system require
experience and they are comparably very easy as well as spontaneous in their working.
EVALUATION
The profession of HR requires inherent as well as external skills which assist managers to
resolve any conflict which might occur in the workplace of an enterprise (Kanstrén, 2019). The
manger who relate to this field must acquire full information relating to their employees as well
as what are their needs, in this way they will aid the enterprise to attain their desire goals. The
involvement of procedures like hiring, selection, grooming, development and so on require
effective skills and experience. The management of available human resources come with great
responsibility on which the betterment t of entities will depend. It also deliver full freedom to
managers to work according to the situations and try to grab good opportunities from even from
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the hard circumstances. The knowledge of this respective field assist to manager to form
strategies, create relationships as well as it enhance the turnover of employees also along with
this it also develop the productivity level of the workers along with the respective companies.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that, career refers to profession or job which
a individual perform for a long period of time in their life. The present a route which guarantee
the progress to individuals in their individual field of profession. Management of human
resource implies to certain fixed work which intent at managing the employees of an enterprise
in an effectual manner. The mangers of this profession supervise operations like compensation,
welfare, grooming as well as improvement, staffing, and so on which are for the welfare of the
workers. With all the above mention practices it becomes very important for the mangers to
perform their activities in a effective way. Activities like compliance with laws as well as
regulation, changes in management, training as well as development in workforce as well as
adoption of innovation impact the HR practices. Skills like written as well as communication
skills, decision making, budgeting along with empathetic all are extreme required by the mangers
of HR. They should attain knowledge like Cognition of HRM along with expertise along with
Cognition of HRIS, so that they can perform the activities in a better way.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Merluzzi, J. and Burt, R.S., 2020. One path does not fit all: A career path approach to the study
of professional women entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
p.1042258720936987.
Lambrecht, A. and Tucker, C., 2019. Algorithmic bias? an empirical study of apparent gender-
based discrimination in the display of stem career ads. Management Science. 65(7).
pp.2966-2981.
Giraud, L., Bernard, A. and Trinchera, L., 2019. Early career values and individual factors of
objective career success: The case of the French business graduates. Career Development
International.
Straub, C., Vinkenburg, C. J. and van Kleef, M., 2020. Career customization: Putting an
organizational practice to facilitate sustainable careers to the test. Journal of Vocational
Behavior. 117. p.103320.
Kanstrén, K., 2019. The career transitions of expatriate partners and the effects of transitions on
career identities. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp.1-35.
Bridgstock, R., Grant-Iramu, M. and McAlpine, A., 2019. Integrating Career Development
Learning into the Curriculum: Collaboration with the Careers Service for
Employability. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability. 10(1).
pp.56-72.
Lee, P. C., Lee, M. J. and Dopson, L. R., 2019. Who influences college students’ career choices?
An empirical study of hospitality management students. Journal of Hospitality &
Tourism Education. 31(2). pp.74-86.
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