Efficient Data Mining Techniques to Enhance Hr Activities

Introduction: Recently, research in Human Resource (HR) activities that are embedded with Data Mining Techniques can solve unstructured and indistinct decision making problems. Human Resource Management (HRM) activities can facilitate to take fair and consistent decisions, and to improve the effectiveness of decision-making processes. Besides the challenges for HR Professionals to manage the organizational decisions and talents, especially they have to ensure that the selection of a right person, providing training to develop the skills, positioning the right person at right job at the right time, assessing the performance and appraising the personnel. Basically, HRM is a comprehensive set of managerial activities and tasks concerned with developing and maintaining a competent workforce – human resource. HRM aims to facilitate organizational competitiveness; enhance productivity and quality; promote individual growth and development; and complying with legal and social obligation. Besides that, in any organizations, they need to compete effectively in term of cost, quality, service or innovation. All these depend on having enough right people, with the right skills, deployed in the appropriate locations at appropriate points in time. Nowadays, in HRM field among the challenges of HR Professionals are selecting the skilled persons, providing training to the recruited people, placing the person in a right position, and performance appraisal. These tasks involve a lot of managerial decision, and which it is sometime very uncertain and difficult to make the best decisions. In reality, current HR decision practices depend on various factors such as human experience, knowledge, preference and judgment. These factors can cause inconsistent, inaccurate, inequality and unforeseen decisions. As a result, especially in promoting individual growth and development, this situation can often make people feel injustice. Besides that, in future, this can influence

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