Human Resource Management

Strategic Management Accounting

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Human resource management (HRM) consists of those activities commenced by an organization to ensure the valuable utilization of the labor force toward the achievement of individual, organizational, and group goals. Other scholars refer to HRM as personnel management because of its focus on employee’s side of management. It entails those procedures that aid the enterprise to properly deal with its employees during the different stages of the employment succession. The meaning that HRM creates to the organization especially in terms of the increase in employee’s contribution and effectiveness in the achievement of the organizational objective and goals is cardinal. This study explores this thesis and tries to relate it to everyday occurrences in our organizations.

Studies indicate that Affirmative action programs (AAPs) and equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation has achieved little in promoting minorities and woman in the place of work. Organizations are continually pursuing cultural differences management, but only deal with minorities and women issues when they coincide with business. Affirmative action incorporates those social and corporate policies intended to not only eradicate discrimination, be it in employment, contracting, or education, but also revisits the impacts of past discrimination. Affirmative action is based on the grounds of equal opportunity, which dictates that all individuals should have access to equal opportunities. In organizations the opportunities revolve around employment procedures, including compensation, hiring process, as well as promotions.

There is a public misconception of what affirmative action should entail due to its equivocal nature. Poor guidelines for the implementation of the policy has contributed to diversity in real practice, and majority of people do not believe in the practicability of this concept. The critics of affirmative...