HRM 2 News Presentation: Google HR Boss & Employee Tensions

This presentation analyzes a news article from Business Insider discussing the resignation of Google's HR boss due to increasing tensions between management and employees. The presentation highlights the crucial role of HR in organizational structures, particularly in managing employee relations, recruitment, and addressing workplace issues. The analysis explores the HR's involvement in recruiting a large workforce and handling employee concerns, including cases of sexual misconduct. It emphasizes the importance of HR in ensuring employee satisfaction and retaining talent, especially in a high-profile company like Google. The presentation concludes by underscoring the significance of ethical and value-driven HR practices in contributing to organizational success. The reference cited is the Business Insider article and a book on managing human resources.

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The aim of the presentation is to elucidate in the light of the news published in the
‘business insider’ under the title ‘Google's HR boss is stepping down, while tensions between
management and employees continue to heat up’. The news allows us to reflect upon the fact
how crucial the attribute of the HR is to any organizational structure.
On the 10th of February, the HR of Google had announced that her position would be
put on resignation by her in the later part of this year. On asking she expressed the concern
that the decision has been taken by her based on the fact that the tension between the
managerial team and the employees have been on an increase in the recent situations.
However the situation has been joined by several other factors (businessinsider.in, 2020).
As a HR, Naughton had taken lead in recruiting considerable number of employees in
the year of her functioning as the head of the people operation team. However, she had also
faced criticism as she aided the employees in protesting against the way company was
handling the cases of misconduct as perpetrated sexually (businessinsider.in, 2020).
The cases of misconduct dates back to the year of 2019 when the four employees who
have been appointed turned against the organization with the case of sexual harassment.
However, there has been certain discrepancies in terms of the statement released. Google had
confirmed that the organization would retain Naughton with the organization
(businessinsider.in, 2020).
The situation in concern elucidated the contribution of the HR in enhancing the
human labor of the company by recruiting more than 70,000 employees on the beginning of
their career. Her implication of the lives of the employees can be noted in their entrustment
upon the HR, who had guided them in their protest.

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The contribution of the HR in respect to an organization is noted in their contribution
not only to enhance the number of employees in the company through recruitment but also
through ensuring their positive work experience in their concerned work place. As such it is
also another liability of the HR to ensure that the factors of dissatisfaction of the employees
are also mitigated. The dissatisfaction as it has been voiced by the HR is reflective of the
dissatisfaction of the employees regarding the cases of sexual misconduct. Along with that it
also require to note that the tremendous amount time that has involved in the case of
dissatisfaction. As such, the voice of the HR reflected the discontent of the employees. It is
crucial to realize that in a company like Google, which is of international renounce needs to
be considered in terms of the issues of the employees to retain their employees (Cascio,
2015).
In order to conclude it can be realized that the contribution of the HR is multifarious
in terms of the satisfaction of the employees as well as the enhancing and retaining the work
force of the organization concerned. As such, the contribution of the HR to their respective
organization should combine their ethics as well as their values.

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References
businessinsider.in. (2020). Google's HR boss is stepping down, while tensions between
management and employees continue to heat up. Retrieved 16 February 2020, from
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/googles-hr-boss-is-stepping-down-while-tensions-
between-management-and-employees-continue-to-heat-up/articleshow/74082447.cms
Cascio, W. F. (2015). Managing human resources. New York: McGraw-Hill.