BUHRM5912 – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT THREE: INDIVIDUAL REPORT De tails of Task: P r e p a r e a report in which you 1. Identify and describe (two to four) HRM issues that have arisen...

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ASSESSMENT 3: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT                    2
UHRM5912 – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ASSESSMENT THREE: INDIVIDUAL REPORT
Executive Summary
This report examines HRM issues that have arisen at the strategic and operation level of the organisation because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report divided into six parts, starting with the introduction of the COVID effects on The Newspaper Club. As the manager of the human resource department, certain issues have identified and relative appropriate and well-justified recommendations stated in this report. A systematic review has done to gain the knowledge of the COVID impact and HRM issues. The report illustrates the challenges of HRM faced by The Newspaper Club. The report ends with conclusion and recommendation part that should follow by the company.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary    2
1. Introduction    4
2. HRM Issue Identification    4
3. Discussion of the HRM Issues    6
4. Evaluation of Alternative Responses    8
5. Conclusion and Recommendations    10
References    12
1. Introduction
Admittedly, covid-19 has influenced HR practices in almost all organizations that have adopted the HRM concept. Today, covid-19 has created a financial crisis in almost every nation. The activity of the world economy drastically reduced. Human resource practices represent the means through which organizations meet employees' needs and expectations in the workplace. Effective uses of HRM practices helps organizations increase employee productivity and therefore organization performance.
The cost of employment for most organizations represents the largest operating cost. During the recession, almost all organizations try to reduce their employment costs by trying to stay on the market and thus survive. That is why most governments announce support measures to support small organizations to overcome the recession and not to close. During this testing time, the manager should take some initiative to hold the environment in the organization (Ravikumar et al., 2020).
In this report, The Newspaper Club (TNC), an Australian ‘high-end’ restaurant, operating in Melbourne, has had, it operations drastically impacted by the restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization needs some recommendations on how to manage its workforce during this pandemic time. This time acts as a decisive test for the organization and continuity in business plans. It raises the concerns over the future and how long the situation going to last.
2. HRM Issue Identification
Human resource consists of both the people who work for the company or organization and also the people who are responsible for managing resources related to employees. Humans have always been complex and having to manage people has always been tricky. This makes human resources a difficult job that faced by many challenges. Both money and time well spent to boast the greatest asset of the company. Restaurants and hospitality industry is the front lines tackling with the covid-19.
The corona virus has appears as an accelerator for one of the greatest transformation in the workplace. This pandemic going to change how people shop, eat, work, exercise and communicate forever (Kashif & Aziz-Ur-Rehman, 2020). Indeed, human resources also face some major challenges managing the workforce. The first major challenge is remote working and training sessions. As corona virus made workers to work from home, it is new normal. Restaurant has to train employee before initiating any change in the business. Likewise, The Newspaper Club have to plan training sessions and prepare its worker for the work from home experiments.
The work from home response ranges from workers to the trainer. Not every worker is as efficient as dealing with the technological resources or access to the technological resource. In case of The Newspaper Club, working from home is also not appropriate plan to undertake. During these uncertain times, health and hygiene in restaurants are crucial to ensure organization, the team, and to the customers are safe and comfortable. Biggest Challenge for the HR would be to maintain social distancing and plan flexi timings in such a way that no two employees are sitting together.
Calling few set of employees at different timings and other set of employees’ different timings without disturbing the work life balance. HR manager has to reframe the policy and rules according to new covid 19 policy. The new workplace policy should ensure that there is proper space management in The Newspaper Club. Keeping social distancing in mind, a set of people or limited people should be call according to their skills and need of the restaurant. The issue is to manage the flexible timing in The Newspaper Club.
Another biggest challenge face by the HR manager is to change recruiting and hiring process. The job application process might be a bit different. The resume and cover letter now matter more than ever (Petzer, 2020). Also, if candidate is successful and proceed to the second round, your interview will probably take place online. One of the biggest changes in the hiring process that HR managers notice from talking to their candidate was the shift from on-site interviews to online interviews.
The use of technology and its access plays important part in this challenge. Addition to it, the compensation structure of the employee would restructure again, compensation and salary would be more on temporary basis after lockdown. This helps the organization to reduce the fixed cost burden and employee will be paid according to the work done. HR manager...