Question

Gregory Trout has just received a memo explaining that because of his department’s success with the newly developed TemperTool, his request for three new employees has been approved. Gregory now faces the challenge of working with the areas of human resource management in recruiting, selecting, training, and maintaining effective employees. In recruiting and selecting employees for the new positions, Gregory will apply which human resource management goal?

Answer 1

Answer:

Maintaining an effective workforce

Explanation:

One of the major goals of human resource management function is ensuring productivity by providing an entity with right number of highly skilled and efficient employees.

Following are the key goals of human resource management process:

1. Mintaining productivity and workforce planning
2. Developing training programs and modes of evaluation
3. Engaging employees
4. Policy creation w.r.t employees
5. Coherence of processes for efficiency

An effective workforce refers to, all the employees as one group, working together, accomplishing the organizational goals in an efficient manner.

In the given case, Gregory's request for three new emoloyees has been approved. The immediate challenge for him being relating to selection, recruitment and training and maintaining effective employees.

Maintaining effective employees also refers to keeping and retaining efficient skilled employees and timely filling up gaps arising due to such employees leaving the organization.