Description of Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management: A Description

A company needs all of its systems and department to work together to be able to cement their name as a successful establishment. The core of a company is their employees, without them, the company is as bare as the emperor without his clothes.

Human Resource Management 

For the company to get and maintain employees, they have the stronghold that keeps them together: the Human Resource Management. This article will give you a little background of what this department is, and how it can help a company succeed.

What is Human Resource Management?

The Human Resource Management is a function in an organization that concentrates on most of these aspects:

• Management of people – they are commonly handling queries and needs of their members. They look for working methods on how to manage a group of more than hundreds to follow the rules and codes of the company.

• Recruitment – the HRM has an over-all hold on the process of recruiting the right people that will work for the company from the advertisement, to the examinations, the tours until the contract signing and employees orientation, HRM is mainly present.

• Providing Direction – the HRM aims to lead the company to one specific goal: to succeed. Thus, when things get rough in the workforce, they redirect all their efforts in making sure that the employees and their leaders know the tasks they ought to do to get back to the correct path.

• Compensation – this being an important reason why the employee is working for the company, the HRM takes control of the compensations that needs to be provided to the employee, in order to maintain the goodwill of the employer and its workers.

• Hiring – making sure all the people coming in to work for the company is a sure profile that can help the group make a leap towards their goals, the Human Resource Management plays a major role in screening and hiring the employers to ensure they fit the job.

• Safety/ Wellness – aside from making sure that the employees always have a reason to stay in the company, the HRM is also in charge in ensuring that the building they are working on is safe, the food in the canteen will not send people to the food poisoning station and that the equipments in the office are properly functioning and will not put people in danger. Also, an HRM should provide wellness efforts to their employees – a fun run every now and then, free health, dental and physical check-ups as well as having nutritionists visit every now and then to let employees know that the company care about their health.

• Employee Benefits and Motivation – it is the responsibility of the HRM to maintain the interest of the employee in staying a little longer in the company. That is why one of their tasks is to make sure the workers are receiving ample benefits as reward to the hard work they are doing.

• Communication – in an overall, the HRM is the core department of the company as everything starts from them and gets distributed to all other departments. Because of this, constant communication is needed and should be working at all times – another task that the HRM should take note of is to have proper information dissemination in the office.

These are only a few things that the Human Resource Management Department focuses on. Mainly, they have tasks that start from recruiting people and maintaining these people throughout the years to become a mainstay in the company. Among the factors of getting employees to stick around are Rewards and Recognition, Benefits, and Employee Motivation among others that keep the HRM office bustling.

It is a great approach to managing people in cultivating a good culture in the workplace. If the Human Resource Management is effective in their tasks they get employees who effectively contribute and produce outstanding work that will lead the company to a successful direction, enabling them to accomplish their objectives and reaching their goals. by: Maria Jevska Nicolau