1. Explain what HR management is and how it relates to the management process.
Human Resource Management is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns. The HR management function is all about the staffing activity. Staffing is all about personnel management. Staffing is basically determining what type of people you want to hire and the selection of those people. You have to conduct job analyses and planning labor needs. It is about recruiting and selecting employees and about training and developing them. Orientation is an important issue because your new employees should adapt your company’s goals and know the organization’s policy. Appraising and evaluating performance, counseling and compensating employees is also an aspect of the management job. HR management is the management of an organization’s workforce, or the human resource. The bottom line for all firms is getting results and you will get results through people. Personnel management is therefore your most important aspect as a HR manager. You could not operate your company without your human resources.
HR management relates to the management process because HR management is one of the five functions that managing includes. The five basic functions that the management process comprises are: planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling an organization for the purpose to achieve goals. Staffing is the function that HR management is responsible of.
2. Give examples of how HR management concepts and techniques can be of use to all managers.
HR management is important to all managers because the concepts and techniques can make you avoid personnel mistakes and improve profits and performance. You will need a good working knowledge of the HRM concepts and techniques because getting results through people is the name of the game.
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