Research Paper

Human resources management is define as the process of acquiring, training, appraising and compensating employees and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns. ( Gary Dessler, 2013, p.4). Human resources is the backbone of any business. It deals with the most important resource in the business-people. For any business to achieve its objectives they must plan their resources and one of their key resources is people. They need to get the best suited people and develop them well in order to meet the organization’s aims successfully. In this paper I will be discussing the function of the human resource department which will include the processes and methods for hiring, training and developing employees, how does the organization motivate their employees, and the human resource department meets the organization’s needs.
LaGuardia community college have a number of employee handbooks, they are the instructional staff, adjunct staff, civil service staff, and college assistant. According to the handbooks, the process of hiring employees for the organization is through the college’s Affirmative Action Program of CUNY . The processes and methods for hiring are done through job posting on the CUNY website and CUNYfirst, this allows those with the corrected qualifications to apply for the positions available. The hiring process would include hiring, initial screening, interview process, pre-employment assessments, offer of employment, background check and first day of work (Jack Halloran,1985, p.120&121. According to the human resources department the training and developing process is based on the department’s needs and requirement.
As part of the training and developing process there is an orientation procedure or commonly used term “onboarding”. The onboarding process happens within the first week of employment. Through this process new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behavior to become effective