Workforce Diversity

Assignment 3
Q.1) How can HRM ensure that it is properly preparing the organization for dealing in the global
illage!
ANS:
Today in age distinctive HRM challenges to business especially those operating across
national boundaries as multinational or global enterprise. Competing in global markets
entail many actors and centrali!ation o its human resource practices is certainly vital to
improve global competitiveness and empo"er employees or global assignments.
#olden and Ramanu$am state %that in order to achieve success in global marketplace&
the challenge o all businesses regardless o their si!e is to understand global corporate
cultural dierences and invest in human resources'. There are certain human resource
management issues that are particular or the global enterprise. %The key issues involve
staing policies selecting and retaining talented employee& training and development
"hilst encouraging employees to be innovative and creative& culture barriers& and legal
rame "ork' (#olden and Ramanu$am). *thers issues include understanding the
challenges o living and "orking overseas& perormance appraisals rom a distance&
training and management development& compensation packages& and labor relations
and organi!ed labor la"s.
+hat changes have occurred in the practice o HRM,
The "orld has undergone a dramatic change over the last e" decades& the orces o
globali!ation- technological changes have greatly changed the business environment.
Shuler reports that' organi!ations "ere re.uired to respond in a strategic manner to the
changes taking place in order to survive and progress'. Human Resource Management
(HRM) involves a set o internally consistent policies and practices designed and
implemented to ensure that a irm/s human capital contribute to the achievement o its
business ob$ectives. Human resources management is largely about integration and
adaptation.
Q.") #$or%force diersity is nothing new. $e need only loo% bac% to the early 1&&'s when
thousands of immigrants came to the (nited )tates* understand how we handled them* and then
implement similar practices again.+ ,o you agree or disagree with the statement! -.plain.
/es this statement is true* Immigration to the United States is a complex demographic
phenomenon that has been a major source ofpopulation growth and cultural change
throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political
aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefts,
jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime,
and voting behavior. On a per capita basis, the United States lets in fewer immigrants
than half the countries in the OECD.
[1]
Prior to 1965, the national origins
formula restricted immigration to the peoples of Western Europe.
Historically,immigration and naturalization has been limited to members of the white
race.
[2]
The civil rights movement of the 1960s led to the replacement
[2]
of these ethnic quotas
with per-country limits.
[3]
Since then, the number of frst-generation immigrants living in
the United States has quadrupled,
[4]
from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007.
[5]
Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010.,
[6]
and over
one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008. Since the per-country
limit
[3]
applies the same maximum on the number of visas to all countries regardless of
their population, it has had the efect of severely restricting the legal immigration of
persons born in Mexico, India, China, and the Philippines currently the
leading
[7]
countries of origin of immigrants to the United States.
[8]
Family reunifcation accounts for approximately two-thirds of legal immigration to the US
every year.
[9]
The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents
(LPRs) of the U.S. in 2009 as a result of family reunifcation (66%) exceeded those who
became LPRs on the basis of employment skills (13%) and for humanitarian reasons
(17%).
[10]
Migration is difcult, expensive, and dangerous for those who enter the US illegally
across the MexicoUnited States border.
[11]
Virtually all undocumented immigrants have
no avenues for legal entry to the United States due the restrictive legal limits on green
cards, and lack of immigrant visas for low skilled workers.
[8]
Participants in debates on
immigration in the early twenty-frst century called for increasing enforcement of existing
laws governing illegal immigration to the United States, building a barrier along some or
all of the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) U.S.-Mexico border, or creating a new guest
worker program. Through much of 2006 the country and Congress was immersed in a
debate about these proposals. As of April 2010 few of these proposals had become law,
though a partial border fence had been approved and subsequently canceled.
Q.3) ,iscuss the implications of hiring contingent wor%ers from both the organizational and
contingent wor%er perspectie.
A0)1
Organisational worker
Flexibility in type and amount of labor resources Lack of loyalty to employer or company
Save costs in benefts and tax Disturbs organizations core morale and culture
Immediate access to expertise not present internallyTraining costs
Savings in long-term compensation costs

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