Human Resources Management and Its Current Issues and Applications

Human Resources Management and Its Current Issues and Applications

Introduction

For every company or organization of any nature, there are a number of departments working together to achieve the common goal of future development and progress of the company. Be it marketing, advertising, technical departments, networking or sales, all these departments are somehow linked to each other and need each other's assistance for the organization to prosper. However, the department or sector of the company that, in a lot of perspectives, acts as a communication bridge between several other departments is the Human Resources Management. Therefore, it will be fair to say that HR management plays a central role in any organization. However, the HR department itself can be categorized into several sub domains. The correlation, cooperation and communication between these departments are also another mandatory aspect in an organization. Moreover, just like several other trends introduced in the business world throughout, the HR department has also been exposed to a number of changes. These trends therefore have changed the very course of how the department operates.

Thesis Statement

With the importance of a Human Resource filed and the associated domains being recognized and acknowledged throughout, there are a number of researches conducted in recent times on the field and its relevant areas. Moreover, the focus of all these researches is to highlight the contemporary issues that the field faces and the methods that are to be adapted accordingly. Therefore, all these studies and the latest trends that follow have a significant impact on various current workplace practices and employee's behavior and future plans.

Discussion

The management of human resources overall is a continuous phenomenon that includes steps from the very beginning of planning strategies of hiring employees till the very end of dealing with formalities of when and if an employee leaves or resigns. Therefore, for better management and optimization of both the human resources and the department itself, the field has been categorized in a number of areas (Noe, 2009) . These include,

EEO and Affirmative Action

Human resources planning, recruitment, and selection

Human resources development

Compensation and benefits

Safety and Health

Employee and labor relations

These areas, when combined together, cover all the aspects that are required in optimizing the employee's performance by providing them an encouraging, supportive and healthy working environment in the organization.

Relation between Different HR areas and their Impact on Employee Behavior and Plans

All the aspects of an HR management are correlated to each other. Hence, the performance of each of these departments will affect all other departments and the overall performance of the company. Hence, without effective communication between these individual areas of the HR resources, it will be impossible for these departments to analyze their individual performance(Chalofsky, 2007) . For example, the Equal Employment Act basically refers to the fact that all the activities or practices that would involve discrimination on the basis of any criteria will be strongly condemned and discouraged by the company and its ...