Question

How does a manager's mindset that sees employees as an expense to be controlled affect the ways that he or she sees their human resource strategy? How would this change if the manager's mindset saw staff as an appreciating asset to be invested in? Describe your experiences in an organization that saw either or both of these mindsets, and your perspective on working for that organization.

Answer 1

Answer: The first approach is short run oriented while the second approach is long run oriented.

Explanation: This can be explained as follows.

In the former approach where the manager consider employees to be as an expense the focus on HR is mainly on recruitment and selection and very low or no emphasis is put on training and development. Only qualified employees who can give desired results with limited resources provided can work under such management.

In the later approach the emphasis of management is on continuous training and development of employee for future benefit of the firm. Such managers considers employees as the most valuable asset of the organisation.

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I worked in an organisation where management has the later approach, we were constantly motivated for providing results but at the same time mental comfort of employees was taken into consideration.