Essay on Love and Emotions

Essay on Love and Emotions People often talk about love, but most of us are not fully aware about its true essence. There is lot of misconception about efficacy of love that holds us back to generate loving feelings towards others. Love is not possessiveness. People look love as a possession that has to be acquired and preserved. To expect that others ought to provide it to us so that our life is filled with love is the biggest fallacy, which is cause of much unhappiness. It is not like any other material thing to be demanded from others. Even if other person offers us plenty of love, we may not be able to feel it. It is normal to blame others for not loving us, but much depends on our inner self whether it has capability to feel it from others. Love is a feeling of well being and of good emotions. It is an activity that keeps us in good spirit and is liked to our emotions. Let us engage and create feeling of love by making self capable through appropriate changes in our dealings with others. There is no other way to love and be loved. The physical intimacy devoid of good feelings is not love but lust. People often fail to conceive love as pious in essence. While dealing with others, let us take care that our dealings make them cheerful, by helping them to come out of their problem, appreciate their successes and be grateful for help received from them. All these activities are to express love. The benefit of giving love to others is that it appeals to our heart and makes us connected to others, provides stability and security, removes fear and gives a feeling of being good towards other people. One can get to know love by first generating such feelings of being good to others. How can a person feel love from others if he is filled with ego, anger and selfish tendencies? These negative emotions suppress inner urge to love others. Love is a divine energy. I had a very vague idea about love initially. As I tried to understand more about it, a completely different perspective and thinking develops that explains the true essence of love. I have come to know from spiritual literature that love is God and God is love. It appears too abstract in the first instance, but more we tend to think of God will make us to love God and all other creations of God. It is like energy flowing within us derived from Ultimate that thinks positive and helps in inner purification. Albert Einstein discovered energy mass equation that explains interconnection of material and energy. It revolutionized the thinking of present century by using a small amount of mass to derive a tremendous energy. Hence, along with our material existence, somewhere we are also part of the divine energy lying within us as dormant. Logically, this divine energy which is nothing but love brings us close to Ultimate. I can imagine that every one of us has a gr eat capacity of this divine love within us, but it is hidden, untapped and misdirected. Great saints have worked on human beings from time to time by developing intense feeling of love and concern for others. This has helped them to achieve higher levels of spiritual growth and closeness with the ultimate. The true meaning of love is inner purification of soul. This is the real purpose of love. Love is nothing but inner need and the reason for feeling happiness. Fill the requirement of soul by being in love with other person. The other person to whom you love is only an object to be loved; it is our own emotions that create love for that person. People love someone if they feel that person is an object of love. This feeling comes out of inner need. This is the reason that when the object of love is same, but still different people react to it in a different manner. A person may become an object of love for someone but similar feelings may be missing in the heart of other person. The feeling of love resides in us; other person becomes only a facilitator to bring out this feeling. Irrespective of how good other person may be, love will have to originate from you to create that loving emotion. All other things follow thereafter. These emotions come when we feel need of love as against negative emotions of anger and hate. The advantages of giving love to the other person are essentially to fulfill our inner need and to generate happiness. If we demand love from other person, we may not be able to feel it when our inner condition is filled with negative feelings. Love is an activity of thinking good about others, doing all that can be done to make others feel good and acting in a manner that other person feels comfortable. It is not something to be demanded as it cannot be preserved; and we cannot take it or feel it unless we make ourselves capable for it. Everyone feels impact of love in their life. When you think good of other person, you are in same wavelength as your inner self (soul), which makes you feel light and joyful. Such feeling is love. It is not easy for a person to love someone as it takes time to understand and then develop liking of that person. Media influences understanding of various issues in life including perception of love. Love has different connation in media, which is not actual reality. The people in love as shown in media are projected somewhat special; it makes us to realize incapable of offering or getting that sort of love. People often adore type of love which is without any argument, full of sacrifices and tolerance from the other person. The media glorifies love and shows loving couple who do so many unusual things to attract each others attention. It affects perception of love. We imagine women in love as beautiful, sacrificing and never arguing. The media depicts love based on physical attraction. In actual life situation, things are different. Love does not mean that there will not be any differences and the other person will always remain dumb. It does not mean that a person not very handsome or beautiful will be less attractive and loving in nature. The attractiveness of a person is depicted from overall personality that is a combination of physical looks, positive attitude and confidence. The love stories as reflected in media and narrated by other persons do mostly narrate physical aspect of love. It does not emphasize on the emotional closeness and spiritual part of the love which is more subtle and enduring. Our perception of love is thus limited in nature. Life is not always about happy or sad situation. It has its own moments of ups and down. How to adjust in each situation and take it in stride will greatly affect the quality of life and relationship with other people. The perception of love as being devoid of any problem, trouble and pain is thus misconception. People feel more and more pain as they are not able to live in love in relationship with other people. Our perception of love has to change. We have to live with all the problems that we face in unison, sort out our differences and make change in our life style to bring semblance of love and tolerance in our attitude. We have to meet the need of soul to develop spiritual love for other persons which goes beyond the physical attraction. Why it is difficult to love other person? Descriptive: The present environment due to religious, economic and cultural disparities is not conducive to create genuine feeling of love and concern for other person, and in these conditions, special efforts by cleaning of heart from bad feelings towards others are required. Short-words: Care, compassion, tolerance, love, sensitivity Text: People have developed indifference towards others because of religion, cultural, national and economic differences and disparities. This has made people to hate and hearts are filled with bad feelings towards others. It affects generating feeling of love and intimacy for other human beings. We remain unconcerned about others; love and tender feelings do not come easily; we believe other human beings are different and not close to us. The present environment is not conducive, and in these conditions, special efforts by cleaning of heart from bad feelings towards others are required. It requires a genuine feeling of love, affection and concern for other human beings. Hardly any great personality at this time either in the social or political arena preaches universal love and brotherhood. Nations and societies lay much importance on material achievements while these intangible benefits which are ideal for long lasting happiness are ignored. Much of our attention through books, preaching and media goes towards material welfare. Children, students and young people accumulate information on varied fields, but rarely educational curriculum lays importance on human values based on love and affection. It has made people to lose sight of good values of life that are built on love and compassion. People measure achievement and success with the yardstick of material comforts. Life has become unbalanced as this crucial aspect of our need is not fully emphasized. Most of us attach so many conditions to be able to love and like other person. We expect that other person ought to deserve love from us. This impairs our capacity to love someone who needs it most. As people become more and more sophisticated and refined in their pursuit of material comforts, they tend to fall short in their capacity to love others. They find other person not capable and refined and feel it difficult to love and show good feelings to other person. The true love requires that it ought not to be conditional. Love should flow out of compassion for other person. Our heart ought to generate a feeling of love and concern. Love in the pure form means giving without expecting anything in return. This is true love. When mother loves children, it is unconditional and is pure in nature. Mother feels discomfort in attending to the child; however, she has inner urge to meet all the needs of the child and sees happiness of child as her own happiness. While loving a person one sho uld relate the happiness of the other person as his own, and think what best one can offer to that person. The capacity to love is impacted if we always expect to receive something from others in return. In that case, inner self lacks sufficient feelings of love and concern for other person. If we think of giving something to others in love, it requires that we are satisfied with what we have possessed. It helps to generate love for others, if we are calm and at peace with our self. The capacity of a person to give something in love does not always depend on his or her material belongings but the willingness and character of that person. Giving something does not mean offering only material possessions. We have to be good at heart to be able to give something to others in token of love and concern. If a person has willingness to give something precious to others, he or she has capacity to love others. When we think of giving to other person, we care for that person. It could be offering good advice, praises, genuine sympathy or any other help that he/she need at that material time. When m other or father loves a child they are actually taking care of the child. Love goes with care, compassion and tolerance. These qualities are to be developed as to generate love for other person. This requires reform in our attitude to life. The efforts that go with developing such qualities help a person to enrich his life with positive energy. We will not be able to love others, if we do not make our self capable for it. It is common to be busy about own material success, power and fame, and in the process do little to develop true feeling of love. We therefore tend to make other person believe that we love him or her, but may be lacking inner feeling of concern for that person. It is usual with so many of us to feel zealous of close friend or relative, if they are doing well in life in comparison to us. These negative tendencies keep on haunting us that affects true lovable feeling. People become cynic of others, and try to find fault. They sometimes feel unhappy to find other person better placed in life. It is not easy to develop feeling of love for other person unless we get rid of these negative attitudes. The way to adhering to moral values is to think and work for good of others. When we try to remain good to others, it develops inner feeling of love and affection. Think of loving others as much as we love ourselves. Ego and selfish feelings come in the way to generate a feeling of love and compassion for other person. If a person is successful in his or her profession, it need not automatically make him or her to develop a feeling of love and compassion for others. Success and wealth may turn a person egoistic, and find it difficult to accept others as equal. The moment we feel higher in stature than others, makes us to expect more in love and obedience from others than we offer in return. The capacity to love others gets affected if filled with such feelings. Other persons out of inferiority complex may respect us, but it will be short of generating loving feelings in their heart. We put limit on true love by bringing these negative emotions filled with our own ego and superiority complex. It takes long time and serious efforts to clean these feelings. It requires sensitivity to express true feeling of love. Descriptive: Sensitivity is towards particular way we talk, express our feelings and understand other person. Feelings of love get impaired if we do not talk nicely to others, and try to tease or find fault. Behavior, proper communication, hurt, sensitive, compassion Text: People often presume that they love other person, but are unaware whether such feelings are conveyed in the manner other person perceives it. It indicates lack of sensitivity to express feelings of love. What is the point in claiming to be in love with other person if you fail to bring such feelings in other person? Love is a means of communication of good feelings to the other person. It is wish for welfare, success and happiness of a person. These feelings develop when we love a person. It makes us conscious of which actions of ours will make other person feel better. Express feelings to a person in a way it matches with his/ her sensitivity. Love making is a personal affair and each person would like to feel about love in a particular manner. Love demands emotional closeness through care, compassion, tolerance and understanding, Sensitivity is towards particular way we talk, express our feelings and understand other person. If we take care of sensitivity of other person in these matters; it will help in more harmonious relation and better mutual understanding. Feelings of love get impaired if we do not talk nicely to others, and try to tease or find fault. Take care while talking so that in any way we do not hurt other person. There will be number of occasions in our life when we will differ with others. If a person out of ego behaves superior, it makes other person feel small and hurt. It is usual to differ on various issues depending on background, education and overall interest. Is it worth to argue for long period to prove your point of view on any topic? It is to show your superiority. Let us not compete while arguing a point so that other person does not feel let down. These discussions ought to be more informative in nature. Let knowledge do not come in our way to block a better relationship with other person. While talking to a child, we talk in the language a child understands. We ourselves behave like a child. In the similar manner, we ought to talk to other person in the manner he or she likes and understands. The language used is the one that can bring us on same wavelength with that of other person. These are real life situations which each person observes, but we often ignore it. People fail to assess sensitivity of the other person and not able to connect emotionally. The other person is not interested to know about your successes and achievement. To derive close loving feelings, discuss issues relating to the welfare of that person. Discuss his/her achievements, problems and overall welfare. Take interest in other persons welfare. Provide encouragement, sympathy or consolation whatever desired to boost the morale of that person. Take genuine interest in the other person so that he/she feels free to reveal his inner feelings. The body language talks lot and gives different meaning to other person. Be sensitive to align your body language to make a positive impact on other person. Love and happiness can be achieved only if able to match the sensitivity of other person. The genuine need to bring happiness in the other person helps in understanding the sensitivity of that person. Love is subtle in nature and it does not have immediate tangible benefits. We need certain transformation within to develop a feeling of love and concern for others. These feelings come provided we value welfare of others as important as our own, and this gets reflected in our attitude towards others. Some people by heart are considerate and helpful to others. People who consider self- interest more important take time to develop these finer qualities. What we expect from life directs our responses and dealings with other people. Apart from how other people treat us, it is our inner urge that drives us to feel love and concern for other people. We often find couples depicting love towards each other in presence of others by routinely hugging and kissing. People say I Love You too often to others around them, but have to find within whether they are true to their word. To express love only through words is not sufficient. It has to be depicted in action. Sometimes, we are not sure of our love towards others, but repeat these words of love to satisfy that person. What is offered in love to others be in a subtle manner, without giving feeling of obligation to the receiver. If some help is imparted out of our ego, it may not generate any love for that person. Take care of other persons worries and find out what makes him/her better. Help in improving self esteem of other person. There are lot of people to find fault if things do not turn out properly. It is our role to make other person feel better against difficulties and odds by enhancing self-esteem and focusing on good things. Do not be quick to point out weakness of a person. This attitude makes other person feel inferior. Take care of sensitivity of a person and make him or her feel better in your company. Subtleness in love is something that is not to be expressed in words but actions speaks of the concern for the other person. Love of mother for the children is example of subtle form of love. She will try to protect the child from all the criticism. She will not disown the child if not doing well in life. Her love is not limited by external factors. Whether the child is intelligent or not, she will continue to take care of the child. She is sensitive to the feelings of the child. Help could come in the form of reducing the burden of worries through encouragement. Praise other person for any good thing accomplished. All these forms of expressing love are more subtle in nature and other person feels more carried out by these feelings. Our caring nature and sensitivity to the feelings of other person help in improving quality of our love. Each kiss and hug ought to accompany love through more subtle manner. In the true love towards other person, it involves absolute truthfulness without fear of deception. This requires honesty with the other person. Believe something about the person but express it differently shows lack of honesty. Mind and heart have to be in unison, when we deal with the person, so as to adopt honesty in our thought and deeds. In the matter of dealing with other people, we are influenced by our feelings of love and affection generated through our heart while our mind values the relationship based on mutual benefit. It becomes matter of inner conflict as how much we should give in a relation and how much to receive. At times whatever we express may not be necessarily what we feel about the person. Our relationship at times lacks sensitivity which affects true love. To be in love with others is the need of soul, same as food is the need of our body. We always feel urge to connect with the other person through love and feeling of intimacy. Being intimate with others does not mean physical intimacy, but it encompasses broader meaning of better understanding through love and compassion. Intimacy requires that we open our hearts and fill it with the love of the other soul. Love others as your soul mates so as to be in true love with the other person.

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations :: Great Expectations Essays

The portrayal of society in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is that of a symbol of contemporary British civilization, with Miss Havisham representing the epitome of such. By utilizing this particular character as the conduit between social body and physical body, the author successfully blends together the kinship inherent to these aspects of British life. Miss Havisham is instrumental in establishing the link between the traditional Victorian society and the manner in which women finally gained significant changes in their investments. The economic health of society at the time of Great Expectations can easily be determined by the manner in which Miss Havisham’s personal history of poor investment strategy reflects the community’s somewhat fragile situation. Also pertinent to the social aspect of Dickens’ Great Expectations is the relationship between younger and older generations, as effectively portrayed between Miss Havisham and eight-year-old Philip Pirrip. Upon meeting this rather outrageous representation of womanhood, the boy – in a child’s infinite innocence – he is compelled to separate himself from what he deems is a strange and unusual existence of alcohol. To him, the rotting barrels that once housed unlimited supplies of beer were symbolic of how he viewed Miss Havisham, a fermentative essence that had long since dried up from disuse and moribund old age. In comprising these thoughts, the young boy was left with the conclusion that such descriptive characterization is both frightening and hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would turn out sour, boy; don't you think so?" "It looks like it, miss." "Not that anybody means to try," she added, "for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is, till it falls. As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House" (Dickens PG). Clearly representative of an impoverished society is that of Miss Havisham’s forsaken brewery, left in its decaying state with barrels and their â€Å"sour remembrance of better days† (Dickens PG). Indeed, the decrepit condition of the brewery is indicative of a more affluent class of social acceptance that once existed, only to ultimately give way to the likes of Miss Havisham’s degraded reality. The life that has left the brewery can be equated to the life that has been lost from society, as Miss Havisham has led an existence rife with humiliation, deception and heartache.

Summary of Radical Idea of Marrying for Love

In the essay â€Å"The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love†, Stephanie Coontz discusses the change marriage has made among the different cultures around the world and how it went from being an act that was necessary to something that was done for personal joy and fulfillment. For most cultures marriage was an act that was done as a necessity. Couples married because they needed to reproduce and ensure that their family continued to have money and power. The romance of marriage did not exist and it was discouraged in most cultures for the couples to fall in love before marriage. Most marriages were arranged by the family, the couples did not marry because of being in love. In the Chinese culture the man could return the wife to her father if it appeared the husband and the wife were too in love. The husband had duties to perform as well as the wife and if those duties were neglected because the couple was too in love it was looked down upon. Couples weren’t supposed to love their spouses. It was common for each partner to have a mistress. The mistress was the one they were to be intimate with. In fact it was common for the couples to explore intimacy outside the marriage openly. The couples depending on culture would share spouses with other couples, or even siblings. In the Bari culture it was common for the women to be with other men even during pregnancy. However at time of birth the women could name all the partners she had been with since she knew she was prengnat. The men would help support the child. Acts such as this are not accepted in all cultures. In more recent centuries couples began to fall in love before they married; although it is still looked down upon in certain cultures. Certain critics felt that if women and men were in love before marriage that things would change in marriage. They felt that men and women would choose mates based on what made them happy at the moment and then could decide to not be married if they were no longer happy. The idea of marriage and love has changed over history and many cultures still have mixed beliefs on what is acceptable within the marriage. Being in love is not a necessity before marriage and those that believe this also feel that it is acceptable to find intimacy outside the marriage. While other cultures believe that you should marry for love and be faithful to your spouse. Marriage is one of the many things that vary depending on culture and the beliefs among those cultures regarding marriage has also changed over the centuries.

Arguments Against Corporate Social Responsibility Free Essay Example, 2500 words

The paper tells that critics of CSR do not say that businesses should not take care to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the society, but they question whether actual obligations should be put on companies to do this. People fear that followers of CSR in top positions of companies will aim for improvements to better the world based on personal ideas of what they think a company should be and how it should run. This risks them spending the money of shareholders on improper actions, without thinking about what effect their spending will have on shareholders interests. Specialised companies also suffer if they follow CSR because they fail to put the right funding into making proper products at cheap prices for their customers. Of course, the main critic of CSR is from Milton Friedman, who famously said that businesses should only have one single aim in their sights: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules o f the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition, without deception or fraud . Friedman attacked theories that tried to expand corporate responsibilities beyond reasonable limits and criticised the absence of specific statements as to what CSR should actually consist of. This is not to say that Friedman thought that companies could act as they wished without any obligations to society. He did say that companies have a certain role which should not have activities which go beyond this role. He said, however, that, by observing the normal activities of companies within their natural role, one can see that businesses fulfill their societal obligations. The content of this normal role of businesses is based on the simple fact of making products and providing services at prices that people are able to pay. Therefore, Friedman said that expanding the role of corporations would prevent them from seeking their general role of competition in a capitalist structure. He said that it was not right to spend the money that did not belong to the corporation (because it belongs to the shareholders) which could cause the aims of the company to be confused, causing it to put profit below CSR aims. We will write a custom essay sample on Arguments Against Corporate Social Responsibility or any topic specifically for you Only $17.96 $11.86/pageorder now

How Can Storytelling Improve Communication Skills in a 4...

CHAPTER ONE Introduction This research was carried out in an Early Childhood Care and Education Centre located in an urban community. It is based on a four year old child whose name is Sarah Lall (not real name). She is very loving and helpful but interaction with her peers is limited since she does not speak in clear sentences. Her words do not take the form of complete sentences and sometimes puzzles the teachers and her peers as to what she is trying to say. Based on face to face interviews with her mother it was clear that she is not given much opportunity to communicate at home which as a result her vocabulary is limited. Many young children lack vital experiences in background knowledge that develop vocabulary and other†¦show more content†¦2. How can storytelling improve social interaction in four year olds? Summary In summary this chapter dealt with the background of the child and the purpose of the study. It gave a description of various strategies used through storytelling to improve the communication skills in a four year old child. In chapter two the researcher will explore the literature that surrounds the research study based on the effects of storytelling to improve communication skills in four year olds. CHAPTER TWO Literature Review The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which storytelling can improve the communication skills of a four year old child in an early childhood centre. Critical to this examination there would be two main factors contributing to the research. These are storytelling to improve communication skills and developing communication skills. It would demonstrate a clearer understand of the value of intervention at an early age and the effect it has on the child reaching his/her fullest potential. Nelson (2003) explains: â€Å"Infants and toddlers use story to explain and create meaning because that’s what parents and their culture do. Storytelling impacts the development of communication skills that are critical to a child’s success at school. It encourages children to listen actively and analytically, improves verbal skills, increases the child’s taught and boosts their understanding skills.

Electricity in a Box - 622 Words

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Question: Discuss about the Gender Inequality In Workplace. Answer: Introduction The report deals with the recent story on gender inequality published on the website, www.hcamag.com on 14 December, 2017. The story deals with increasing efforts by the employees to address the pay gaps and gender imbalances persisting in Australia. The story highlighted that there is a gender pay gap which is in favour of men in all occupations. The story informs about the Australias national gender pay gap, which is 15.3%. It is indicating that the employers are still not doing enough to reduce the gender inequality. The published news informs about the efforts being taken to reduce the issue but could lower the SAPs gender pay gap to only 2%. It is still a long process to eliminate the issue entirely (Hilton, 2018). The thesis of the paper is - There is need of increased effort from the Human resource department, to overcome the gender inequality in workplace. The report aims to analyse the gender inequality issue using relevant theory and literature and provide practical solutions to the issues. For this purpose the report draw on the concepts of the strategic management and literature related to the employee relation challenges. All the arguments are supported with the theoretical discussion. Analysis of the Gender inequality issue: Need of HR efforts There is a need of HR efforts to ensure the gender inequality as most of the data focuses on increased efforts from women to end the pay gap. There is multitude of factors, influencing the pay given to women. It includes nature of their employment, industry, history of wage fixation, and their trade union membership. There is clearly more role to play by the organisation in addition to the womens action alone. Equal pay has been a political debate since ages even after 30 years of equal pay legislation. Women despite focusing more on knowing their worth or doing research or by negotiating effectively may not help the issue to be resolved. Thus, HR needs to develop proactive strategies to mitigate the issue. Gender pay gap can be dealt at the HR level as on an average men are earning 24% more than women (Kahn, 2015).). According to the Federal Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency, women are taking home a smaller pay packet than men and have poor job design. Also women enterin g into the management roles are denied of part time work opportunities. There are very few women working as senior mangers being part time workers. It is due to lack of flexible working embraced by men. Women take greater role in family care than men. Therefore, women mostly take part time jobs. There are still 30 top companies in Australia that has no women on their boards. Women have the significant potential to offer, which is missed by the Australian economy (Cassells, Duncan Ong, 2017). Role of capitalism and patriarchy Gender inequality in the Australia can be explained by Marxist theory. According to this theory, the segregation of the labour force is influenced by the capitalist system. Marxist believed that women liberalism can be achieved, by dismantling the capitalism. The inequality is arising due to exercise of power as per the class analysis. The Marxist feminism theory has emphasised on patriarchy as the cause of gender segregation for gaining greater economic advantage. According to Marxist feminism the inequality in distributing the domestic duties between men and women is beneficial for capitalism. The same extends to the work place (Whatmore, 2016). Marxist argued that this inequality caused the conflict between the labour and capital in various organisations. Marxist theory was however criticised by various feminist scholars for ignoring the gender related issues as his theory did not consider the child care. Child care could not be combined with employment which was the major drawbac k for women. It was the major concern for the radical political feminist theory. As per the radical feminist theory, the oppression in employment was the basis of patriarchy. This is considered the cause of the lower status of women both economically and socially (Bryson, 2016). The status of the women in the employment is also explained by the Dual system theory. This theory is based on the radical feminist theory and the material analysis of history. This theory explains the dual role of the capitalist system and patriarchy in sustaining the gender inequality in labour force. In this theory the job segregation is explained by the intersection of the capitalism and patriarchy. Both together have led to emergence of the dominant capitalist and men. Both the outcomes are similar although emerging from different systems. This theory however, extended the understanding of the gender segregation at work (Carter, 2014). Prejudice and Hiring biases Gender inequality in workplace is also explained by the neo-classical economists. It is known as the human capital theory and considers the differences in human capital possessed by the employees as a reason for gender inequality in workplace. According to the neo-classical economists, employees receives rewards based on their education, capability and training. It means that the organisation based their recruitment decisions depending on the market value of each individuals human capital. The theory explains that women were paid less as they were considered to have fewer skills than men. The challenge here is the prejudice that women had lesser market experience than men and lesser human capital. The reason for inferior skills of women was house chores and child rearing. Men tend to spend more time in paid jobs and thus, the human capital gap widens. Women stay out of labour market due to maternity leave and the human capital decreases. After re-entering the market, inequality in ea rnings is observed between men and women as women lack flexible working. Hiring biases are observed after rejoining from maternity leave (Ochsenfeld, 2014). Employee relation challenges The gender inequality in workplace implies the HR management to have strategic approaches in every organisation. It may be related with area of job design, career support, work organisation and work life balance initiatives. However, HR management faces employee relationship challenges. It is because not every team in the organization can afford to have the members of the same sex. Owing to cultural diversity, there are different customs followed in different parts of the world. It is difficult to meet the expectations of each employee. HR managers cannot control the thought of each employee. The superior employee of the team may not be accessible to his or her team members (Jackson et al., 2014). According to Sharma (2016), lack of cross-cultural communication skills is the barrier for HRD to identify the inequality. There is a need of capability approach to manage the diversity and gender equality. In this regard the HR needs internal capabilities to act in response to the issue, w hich is secured by the numeracy, literacy, education and training. Minorities and women lack adequate training program in par of the men. One of the examples of the capability approach is to combine the internal capabilities with external structural conditionsto develop flexible work arrangements. HRM needs to address the needs of the diverse group of people to avoid conflicts and tensions. The HRM should not consider the us verses them strategy. There should be a difference between the equality policy and diversity policy. Diversity management is focused on valuing the organisational initiative on respecting every employee in the workplace irrespective of gender and other variables. Equal opportunities are associated with employee treatment that is right based and tolerant. It includes initiatives that are entrenched in conformity of legal rules (Kulik, 2014). There is bulk of literature available on managing both equality and diversity. It is critical in workplace as it influences all the members working in the organisation. Managing both the aspects leads to increase in forms competiveness. It is possible if the diversity is not considered as public relation tool. Employees are motivated in every organisation using the performance appraisal method. It helps to maintain both equality and diversity. Some organisations do not uncover the origin of potential biases. This implies HRM for conducting the culture and management systems audit. Lack of such audits keeps certain members of the organisation at disadvantage as per Rees Smith (2017). There are incidents of racial discriminations that inhibited the formation of the constructive group. Appraisal system with gender biases was also found to increase the disadvantage position of women. It may be associated with the stereotyping attitude of HR, and other factors such as low expectation and double standards. Therefore, the racial and diversity audit is considered to be useful in reducing gender-based discrimination.Employee from diverse communities such as African-American female managers may have to work harder than Australian male manager owing to the biasness in performance appraisal. There ar e some firms such as seven-Eleven that manipulated the performance appraisal scores of the employees to reduce the rewards. Women mostly received low scoring than men and led to job dissatisfaction. Women rejoining after maternity leave were expected less productivity than men. They had poor flexibility in working. It affected their acceptance in workplace and income equality. Exploitation of the black or ethnic minority women was evident from the cost benefit analysis. It is attributed to the managers attitude towards equal opportunity. It implies for fairness and AA edicts in managing gender discrimination (Sharma, 2016). Recommendations- Practical solutions HRD can overcome this issue by initiating gender-focused HR management. There are mediating effects of the gender diversity. Gender-diverse workforce results from the human resource policies and practices that is gender-focused. It has great impact on the management as well as non-management levels. At the non management levels the gender diversity leads to higher productivity and higher market performance. A firm engaged in gender-focussed HR practices is the signal that it values gender- diversity. Such workforce gives competitive advantage. Hence, this implies for practical implications (Ali, 2016). HR managers can eliminate the pay disparities by determining the level of knowledge of each employee and the value they add to the organisation. HR managers should ensure that the job offers are not based on what an employee earned previously and maintain the internal equity (Meijerink et al., 2016). Correll (2017) suggested that promotions and biases should be bias free and ensure equitable development of talent. Both women and men with similar qualifications should be proportionately assigned to jobs that have better promotions opportunities. Both should be recommended for opportunities such as management training to increase skills that can impact the advancement. HR managers should give similar opportunities to both genders including bonuses, add-ons and similar increases. According to Tam (2017) HRD should perform an annual pay equity analysis at the time of merit increase. It will ensure that the pay is based on market value, last three performance ratings, past experience, and others factors. It is the duty of the HR to adjust the pay of the employee as per the projected pay. Bonuses should be given based on the annually established goals. Both the managers and HR partners should set the realistic goals. They must engage in open discussion with the employees if one demographic is getting too less. The mangers should be accountable for the development of the team members. The compensation should be transparent; it means that there should be clear formula determining the pay increases along with the pay range. This strategy helps provide a rationale and dispel the misconceptions. It is recommended by the, Australias Workplace Gender Equality Agencythat the HRD practice need to be explicit about the person responsible for equitable pay. Every organisation should have a remuneration review committee to recognise the discrepancies in pay equity. Accountability includes roles and responsibilities of the HR managers in the remuneration process. A company having competitive edge means it has level paying field. It helps to get largest segment of top talent. Strategic HR management should focus on promoting the flexible working, focus on measurement, promote female leadership, and eliminate the salary negotiation. There is a need of quick fix solution to address the gender pay gap. HR together with manager should consider the where the employees are heading towards (Javidmehr Ebrahimpour, 2015). Conclusion It can be concluded from the above discussion that HR is not doing enough to address the gender inequality. The factors that contributed towards the gender inequality in workplace in Australia as per the literature are capitalist system, patriarchy, stereotyping attitude by HRM, and prejudice. The other factors include lack of cross cultural skills, capability approach, biased performance appraisal system by HRM. 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