#7 Human Resources and Leadership: What are some current events in your industry? What is the impact of these events on the industry?

Human resources is the term that can be coined as "HR" which refers to individuals who make up the workforce and responsible for implementing strategies. The department of defense is compromised of the human resource sector. Human resources is a dominant field in providing for general management to a wide variety of things such as, human matters, budgetary support, and strategies that need to be implemented. Some operations that the human resources is responsible for is the management of commercial travel for the department of defense. The human resources sector is also responsible for negotiating with workers in the department of defense about personal matters. For example, if a worker or trainee gets sexually harassed at work, human resources respond to these victims and provide counseling.

Some current events that have been surrounding human resources in the department of defense has been providing guidance to specific issues such as antiterrorism and force protectionism, equal employment opportunity, and other topics that workers in the department of defense look for guidance towards. The equal employment opportunity has been a hot topic that has been regarded towards human resources. The department of defense and its human resources “DHRA” has been committed to a discrimination free work environment, meaning that if workers encounter a problem while at work, they give their complaint to human resources and is negotiated and solved from there. In the aerospace industry, human resources works the same way in providing an environment that is committed to discrimination free work environment and where employment decisions are solely based on the merit. Both of these industries believe in human resources as a strong sector in protecting and providing strategies to the workplace.