Hiring Employees and Challenges to Ensuring a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

Managing Employees
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Q1. You have been asked to assist the CEO in hiring the most suitable employees for current job openings in (a) sales, (b) employee assistance and peer support, (c) product development (creating new and innovative products), and (d) project management (managing projects to keep them on time and within budget). How would you approach this task? Explain the personality characteristics of an ideal candidate for each of the four jobs.
In any given organization, hiring new employees is a crucial cog because it extensively determines the overall performance and competence. As such, being the HRM, I must observe optimum care when getting new employees on board. One mandate I must fundamentally undertake is informing applicants about the organization’s culture (McShane et al., 2021). I must also consider the qualification of job interviewees. In this regard, I must establish they possess the requisite education and technical skills. Finally, I must assess the personality and values of new recruits. This is paramount as it enables organizations to assign individuals to jobs compatible with their personal attributes, which significantly enhances performance.
In light of the above, while selecting the employees suitable to work in the sales department, I will factor in several factors. First, they must be conscientious and agreeable since such attributes enable people to be goal-oriented, industrious, helpful, and tolerant, among others (McShane et al., 2021). Armed with such attributes, the employees will help the organization’s sales to improve exponentially. Second, the employee assistance and support department will require outgoing, talkative, and assertive individuals to help promote robust working relationships. Third, I will assign innovative, dependable, imaginative, and curious individuals to the product development department. Such employees will play a pivotal role in innovating competitive products. Finally, in the project management department, I will designate employees with such traits as discipline, assertiveness, emotional intelligence, and goal-oriented. Having such attributes will ensure that projects run seamlessly and within the stipulated time limit to enhance customer satisfaction and competitiveness.
Q2 You are leading your company’s diversity and inclusion initiative. Discuss some of the challenges to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace. How will you overcome these challenges to ensure that your diversity and inclusion efforts are meaningful?
One of the most fundamental elements of organizations is embracing diversity and inclusion. This, in essence, means hiring employees regardless of ethnicity, gender, and status, among others. Diversity and inclusion are critical since they help enhance the overall image of an organization. In addition, they determine an organization's performance to a considerable extent. Desirable as they may appear, cementing them in an organization encounters several challenges. To begin with, negative self-concepts and perceptions among individuals impede the actualization of diversity and inclusion. For example, engin...