Managing Human Resources and Diversity

 
Chapter 9

The HR is the part of the company that deals with everything that concerns employees. This area takes care of the work relationship from the employee's onboarding to the end of his journey in the organization. Human resource management is an important part of a company. This is because it works to coordinate the HR sector.

Thus, the management acts in practices that aim at the better functioning of the area so that a company can maintain a good relationship with its human resources, that is, its employees.

The main objective of human resources management is to make everything work in the relationship between company and employee. Therefore, this area takes care of everything that involves the employee, and usually has several subsystems within a large area.

 

Its main activities are:

·         Recruitment and selection.

·         People management.

·         Check Point.

·         Benefits management.

·         Trainings.

·         Career path.

Among others varying from company to company.

 

However, regardless of the size of this area, in any organization its main function is to take care of employees. The role of the HR manager is to make all parts of the sector interconnected, so that the company is taking care of its employees in the best way.

It is necessary for the HR sector to know how to act properly to attract and retain human capital. Without this crucial component, the company's goals will not be able to be achieved properly.

The operational part is also part of HR management, this is the part that keeps everything running. Here we can mention the control of employees' journey, payroll, benefits management, everything that is considered a little more bureaucratic and that needs to be done in accordance with labor laws.

It is the duty of human resources management to keep this part in line with labor rules and ensure that it is done in the best way for both the company and the employees.

These are just some of the responsibilities of human resource management, ensuring that each of these processes are taking place efficiently will make the company have good HR management.

Within a company, diversity is expressed in different skills, ideas and worldviews, as well as ethnic, religious and cultural differences. A diverse team, where there are points of ideas and different visions, can present different paths to a single problem. Or at least, the chances are higher. Because the debate will be propitious, and the exchange of experience will take place.

 

Studies show that companies with investment in diversity show above-average results. What is already expected, once these people are inserted within companies, they have the potential to transform a work environment, make it lighter, which provides a better coexistence, exploding new ideas and giving more opportunities to those who previously had the feeling of not belonging or of exclusion, creating a voice that will give balance and new directions to the challenges that the team encounters.

HR has two important points to ensure diversity within a company. The first one is to raise the debate and present a project that changes the company's vision and organization. HR is the main sector that can assess this issue within any company, and the need for an accurate diagnosis of the workforce and the current work environment is vital. Another way to encourage diversity is to change the standard imposed on recruitment and selection, where, in many cases, hiring follows a single path: training at the same university, residing in specific regions, a certain age group and even ethnicity.

Unfortunately, cases of prejudice, xenophobia, discrimination, and ethnocentrism can occur in multicultural or highly diverse environments. Prejudice towards minorities is a difficult characteristic to fight, since it is a social construction that can manifest itself in a very subtle and even unconscious way. This makes the task of managing diversity more difficult, as employees themselves — including you — may not realize the biased attitudes they are reproducing.

Therefore, for diversity management to be effective within your company, it is important that you create strategies to combat prejudice that may exist in the company's environment. One of the ways to accomplish this task is to invest in discussion circles and conversations about prejudice.