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

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.

Writing the Reflective Paper
The Reflective Paper:

• Must be seven to eight double-spaced pages in length, excluding the cover page and reference page, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Truckers – Reflection
  • Frances Dunn
  • BUS303: Human Resources
  • Catherine Frost
  • March 19, 2018
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least five scholarly sources, in addition to the text.
• Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include, on the final page, a Reference List that is completed according to APA style as outlined in your approved style guide and has at least five references in addition to the text.