BMA583 Presentation: Managing People & Employment - Modern Slavery

This presentation focuses on the Modern Slavery Act and its implications for managing people and employment relationships. It highlights the Act's purpose in identifying and addressing issues like human trafficking and slavery within supply chains, emphasizing transparency and improved workplace effectiveness. The presentation details how the Act benefits HRM by implementing anti-slavery practices, creating a proper workforce, and ensuring compliance with slavery prevention requirements. It references academic sources to support its analysis of the Act's impact on human resources management and employment relations, particularly in preventing human exploitation and promoting ethical workplace practices. Desklib is a platform where you can find similar presentations and solved assignments.

Managing people and the
employment relationship

Modern Slavery Act
The Modern Slavery Act has been proposed for the
purpose of the identifying the issues like human
trafficking and slavery (Gold, Trautrims and Trodd
2015)
The Introduction of Modern Slavery Act by
Australian Federal Government enables
transparency and improved workplace effectiveness.
The Advisory Committee and CEO of companies
with the support of Federal Government Australia
made sure that the companies abide by the rules
and regulations set by the Act.

Aim
Slavery has always been a major issue in
Australia where migrant people and young
children are forced to work with little or no pay
(Siebert and Martin 2016).
The Modern Slavery Act helps in preventing
slavery and human trafficking issues identified
within the supply chain
It will improve the transparency and openness
within workplace and promote a diversified
workplace too
The aim is to make the companies maintain the
policies and comply with the laws and rules to
prevent human trafficking and slavery.

Legislation details
The management of human resources and
employment relations were subjected to certain
issues related to individuals working as slaves in
different sectors
The Modern Slavery Act benefits HRM by
implementing anti-slavery practices
This legislation not only identifies the cases of
slavery and human trafficking but also creates a
proper workforce (Crane 2013).
The maintenance of Modern Slavery Act has helped
the companies to comply with the requirements
regarding slavery prevention within the
organisations.

Bibliography
Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S., 2014. Armstrong's
handbook of human resource management practice.
Kogan Page Publishers.
Crane, A., 2013. Modern slavery as a management
practice: Exploring the conditions and capabilities for
human exploitation. Academy of Management Review,
38(1), pp.49-69.
Gold, S., Trautrims, A. and Trodd, Z., 2015. Modern
slavery challenges to supply chain management. Supply
Chain Management: An International Journal, 20(5),
pp.485-494.
Siebert, S. and Martin, G., 2016. Managing people and
organizations in changing contexts. Routledge.

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