ESSAY: Truckers

Reflective Paper

The paper starts with looking at HR from a broader perspective and how all the functional areas work together to help HR reach the overall goal to increase the effectiveness and contribution of employees in the attainment of organizational goals and objectives. This is where you start – from an organizational perspective, rather than from an employee viewpoint. This is key to the rest of the paper falling into place. Once you have dealt with the broader issues you will then select a specific functional area to analyze in more detail. Those functional areas: EEO and Affirmative Action, Human resources planning, recruitment, and selection, Human resources development, Compensation and benefits, Safety and Health, and Employee and Labor relations.

The primary function of human resource management is to increase the effectiveness and contribution of employees in the attainment of organizational goals and objectives. Consider all the areas of HRM that have been discussed in class:

• EEO and Affirmative Action,
• Human resources planning, recruitment, and selection,
• Human resources development,
• Compensation and benefits,
• Safety and Health, and
• Employee and labor relations.

Submit a Reflective Paper in which you explain how these aspects work together to perform that primary function. Are any aspects more important than the others? Why or why not? How do you believe the HRM role can be optimized for shaping organizational and employee behavior?

The Reflective Paper must:

(a) identify the main issues in the chosen area,

(b) demonstrate new learning that has occurred

Training needs assessment, design, development, delivery, and evaluation should likewise inform and be 

informed by the other strategic HR processes—adding value to the organization’s efficiency, effectiveness competitiveness.

HRM process

Eight practices or activities whose purposes are to attract, retain, and motivate qualified employees. These 

activities are strategic HRplanning, job analysis and design, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, 

training and development, compensation, and benefits administration.

human resource management

The management of human skills and talents to make sure they are effectively used and in alignment with an organization’s goals.

https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUBUS303.15.1/sections/ch01summary

HR planning

The process of managing an organization’s most valuable asset—its people so that there are no shortages or

surpluses of employees in the organization.

https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUBUS303.15.1/sections/ch02summary

(c) include class activities or incidents that facilitated learning and understanding

(d) identify specific current and/or future applications and relevance to your workplace, and

(e) reflect the potential impact to your future career plans or even in your personal life at home.

I am hoping to drive truck for at least 10 years or more.

The emphasis of the Reflective Paper should be on parts ‘d’ and ‘e,’ and on the application of new learning.  Explore, in depth, the benefits of the new learning and understanding that has taken place.

ANSWER

Key Functions of Human Resource Management

Introduction

Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the administration and supervision of human capital in an organization. The function of human resource management is performed in the human resource department. The main objective of HRM is to improve employees’ performance through the effective and efficient provision of necessary support. The department mainly focuses on the people or employees and the system in which they operate in to decide how to effectively organize them to achieve the overall organization objectives. In an organization, the key functions of Human Resource include the provision of health and safety working environment, formulating policies and adherence to employee and labor relations, human resource planning, selection and planning, human resource development, promoting equal employment opportunities (EEO), and observing the affirmative action. Through the above mentioned functions, the human resource managers are able to improve the productivity and effectiveness of their engagement thereby contributing to the achievement of the overall company objective. The HRM functions are intertwined and each function tends to compliment the other. The HR focus on hiring, training, relations, and rewards.  Training and development programs ensure that employees are equipped with required skills, high performance is rewarded with rewards and promotion. Relations are established to guide the acceptable conducts of an employee in the organization. This paper seeks to examine how the above mentioned functions of Human Resource Management work together in order to achieve the overall aim of improving employees productivity and effectiveness. The paper will also examine if there are any functions that are more important than the others and finally examine how the HRM function can be maximized in order to shape employee and organizational behaviors.   Bakotic (2015) noted that employees’ productivity and effectiveness is a function of various factors such as employees’ morale, job satisfaction, employee relationships, reward systems, corporate governance practices adopted and the overall organization performance.  The human resource managers should, therefore, study and analyze these issues if they are to achieve the goals of the organization. Proper management of the factors is important so as to improve the employees’ overall welfare. Mafini and Pooe, (2013) stated that organization performance is positively correlated with job satisfaction. The following section examines how provision of health and safety working environment, formulating policies and adherence to employee and labor relations, human resource planning, selection, human…