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Strategic Human Resources Management-HRM 530

July 24, 2011

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How can human resources professionals ensure that top organizational leaders encourage managers and employees follow laws and guidance?

Human Resources Management is put in place to enhance the organizations reputation in the community as a good place to work. It also supports future sustainability of the company, help to develop the staff, assist in succession planning, and help prepare leaders of the organization for the future (Casey, 2011). To ensure that organizational leaders encourage managers and employees to follow the laws, human resources professionals can put in place mandatory training that must be completed by all employees, including managers and executives on an annual basis, as part of their job requirement. These training can either be completed in a classroom setting, or through computer based training. They should first make it a requirement for new hires to take these mandatory traing sessions as part of their onboarding process. Such traing should consist of employees getting familiar with the companies sexual harassment policy, hostile work enviroment, and equal employment laws. Once the training is completed as part of the hiring process, they should then make it a mandatory requirement that all employees take the course again on an annual basis to keep up with the changing laws.

Another way to ensure compliance and an ethical work enviroment is for human resources professionals to ensure a zero tolerance workplace, when these laws are broken. Non-compliance of labor laws can be very detrimental to the organization and for this leaders and managers must uphold these laws, and be willing to practice the zero tolerance policy and terminate employees should they break the laws. Once employees see that the zero tolerance policy also applies to their managers and organization executives, they will have a better understanding of how inportant it is for them to be...