HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

EEO and Affirmative Actions

In the recent years Human Resource Management has gained a very crucial role in the society. The effective and smooth running of the entire organization is heavily dependent on the way human resource is managed throughout. For the efficient functioning of the entity, human resource managers encourage total group participation and constant communication among workers.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) is about ensuring that all employees have equal access to the opportunities that are available at work by:

making sure that workplaces are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment, and

providing programs to assist members of EEO groups to overcome past or present disadvantage (EEO strategies could include workplace rules, policies, practices and behaviours e.g. recruitment programs and access to training and career development).

EEO groups are people affected by past or continuing disadvantage or discrimination in employment. As a result they may be more likely to be unemployed or working in lower paid jobs. These groups are:

women

Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders

members of racial, ethnic, and ethno-religious minority groups

people with a disability

Work groups in an organization are required to build a shared commitment within a department to its mission and future vision. Together the groups identify effective ways that departments can establish and meet goals, build the capacity for departments to change and improve, create healthy work environments where there is trust within and between departments, pride in work that is done well, and opportunities to develop new competencies. Shared ideas and learning across organizational boundaries improves leadership methods and management techniques, and develops leadership and teamwork skills at all levels of the department. (Keon, 2005, 155-165)

One of the goals of teamwork development is to improve the diagnosis and problem-solving abilities of departments and other work groups whose difficulties are teamwork-related. In facilitating team development, human resource deals with five areas crucial to effective organizational performance: communication, functions in groups, group problem solving and decision making, group growth, and leadership.

Human Resource Department assists in planning and facilitating focus groups, and in developing survey, evaluation, and focus group questions that elicit essential information from faculty, staff members, and students. Surveys and evaluations can be either Internet-based (e-mail or web) or paper-based instruments.

Entrepreneurs who build successful, high-growth companies understand that innovation is what drives growth, and innovation is achieved by awesome people with a shared passion for problem solving and for turning ideas into realities. Companies that continuously innovate will create and re-invent new markets, products, services, and business models - which leads to more growth. So, the best thing to do to guarantee growth is to build and awesome organization around the following components. Innovation is the conversion of knowledge into new products and services. (Kerr, 2008, 99-108) It is a continuing response to changing circumstances. Innovation, in accordance with the corporate value strategy, can be nurtured in special and highly creative environments; these environments are most easily created in small companies and corporate ...