Use of Legal Texts for Human Resources Management at the National Social Security Fund in the DRC

Abstract

The analysis of the applicability of legal texts on Human Resource Management, conducted within the framework of this study, indicated the following: (i) Managers are aware of various legal texts that can be used in different structures; (ii) these legal texts focus particularly on the following activities: recruitment, selection, and hiring; remuneration; working time management; occupational health and safety; ethics, loyalty, and fidelity; discipline and departure management; layout and monitoring of work tools and premises; and file management; (iii) legal texts are often applied in cases of flagrant misconduct by the worker. Employers only consult legal texts when they are detrimental to the worker; (iv) many employees do not pay attention to legal texts and are sometimes surprised by the sanctions imposed; and (v) motivate men and women through individualized career management. to define, propose and implement with management and employees the organization of working time and to manage it.