Describe four of the eight major human resource management discipline areas.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Varies but should include four of the following:
The legal environment: EEO and diversity management. This discipline deals with equal opportunity laws and regulations as well as management of a diverse workforce.
Staffing. This discipline manages the processes involved in job analysis, recruiting, and selection into the organization.
Training and development. This discipline has responsibility for the training processes within the organization, for developing curricula and lesson plans, and for delivery of training courses. It is also involved with development of talent within the company to provide a group of employees who will be able to move into more senior positions that become vacant.
Employee relations. This area involves the coaching, counseling, and discipline processes, along with employee communication and stress management. It is also typically responsible for the management of job satisfaction and employee engagement.
Labor and industrial relations. This discipline works with the laws and regulations that control the organization’s relationships with their workforce. It also works with any union-management contracts, including but not limited to union votes, grievances, contract negotiations, and bargaining with union representatives.
Compensation and benefits. This discipline works with pay of various types and with benefits packages, all of which are designed to attract and keep the right mix of employees in the organization. It also deals directly with all of the federal and state compensation laws to ensure compliance.
Safety and security. This discipline works to ensure that the environment on the job is safe for all workers so that on-the-job injuries and illnesses are minimized to the greatest extent possible. It also involves managing the organization’s planning for securing the workforce, both from being harmed by other people and from natural disasters such as earthquakes or tornados.
Ethics and sustainability. This discipline bears responsibility for seeing to it that the organization acts in an ethical and socially responsible manner, to minimize harm to the environment and its various stakeholders. It involves managing the sustainability efforts in the organization to minimize the organization’s “footprint” on the environment—in other words, to minimize the depletion of worldwide resources caused by the organization’s carrying out its processes.