In contemporary business environments, companies need to adopt effective human resources management policies; an effective personnel management strategy goes further than ensuring that employees are motivated to perform their duties diligently to involve respecting their human rights and fundamental freedom.
This paper is a response to a case study of an international clothing company that has had issues of disregard of human rights.
The paramount factor for the company as far as human capital is concerned
According to the case, the company saw employees as the line or pathway through which they would earn profits and revenue for the company. The main focus of the management was to have increased revenue and disregarded the way employees gave the results.
With the managing style, the management was kept to ensure that employees were loyal to the company and worked for the benefit of the company. However the challenge that the company had was that the management was not willing to listen to the demand of employees. The management never was willing to negotiate with unions and neither did it to respect human fundamental rights and freedom.
Business risk and Merits to
Do nothing with the situation
When the company decides not to react on the demand of human capital and opt to retain the same method of operation, the company might get negative publication. Negative publication means that the company will lose business as it will be portrayed as an un-ethical company that does not respect the demand of its employees. Customer loyalty will be eroded by negative publicity of an organization; it will give competitors an upper hand.
Cease using contractors
Given a chance to control people directly, I will use an integrated human resources management system. The management system I would enact would ensure that human rights have been respected and employees have been motivated. When such policies are adopted, the company will gain positive publicity which will work for its benefit. The risk that would be there is to change organizational culture that the company already had.
Make changes to contractors
When the structure of contractors’ human resources management is changed to adopt an effective leadership method, the company will be able to adopt policies that will ensure human rights have been respected and staffs are motivated. What should be changed is the approach taken by the contractors and ensures that the policies adopted are quality.
Recommendations for the best approach
For an effective operation, organizations need human and physical resources; properly managed organizations have an appropriate number of personnel’s in number, experience and expertise.
To ensure that the right number of people is available when required, a company’s human resource management should develop effective framework of planning human resources. The following are the main objectives that the human resources management approach should have:
- To ensure optimum utilization of human resources; this will be attained through effective personnel motivation and empowerment programs
- To forecast future requirements for human resources.
- To integrate the human resources plan with the organization plan.
- To establish ideal management development programs and ensure it meets the needs of expansion and diversification programs.
- To assess the surplus and shortage of human resources and anticipate the impact of technology on jobs and human resources.