Human resource management

By Amar Gupta CSE

 

The number one glossary suggestion and question that people request is: "What is the definition of human resources ?" Here's my most frequent response to the question about the definition of human resources.

What Is Human Resource Management (HRM)?

Human Resource Management is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment, management, and the direction of the people in the organization. Human Resources management is also performed by line managers.

What Is the Human Resource Department?

Departments are the entity organizations form to organize people, reporting relationships, and work in a way that best supports the accomplishment of the organization's goals. Departments are usually organized by functions such as human resources, marketing, administration, and sales. But, a department can be organized in any way that makes sense for the customer.

Sample Human Resource Management Job Descriptions

Sample Human Resource management job descriptions give you a basic template for developing job descriptions in your organization. Sample job descriptions also give you an idea about what other organizations expect from employees doing the featured job. See these sample Human Resource management job descriptions.

 

 

What Is Human Resource Development (HRD)?

Human Resource Development (HRD) is the framework for helping employees develop their personal and organizational skills, knowledge, and abilities. Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance management and development, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, key employee identification, tuition assistance, and organization development.

Recruitment Management

Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting a qualified person for a job. All companies in any industry can benefit from contingency or retain professional recruiters or outsourcing the process to recruitment agencies.

The recruitment industry has four basic types of firms. 1). Employment agencies deal with clerical, trades, temporary and temporary to hire employment opportunities. 2). Recruitment websites and job search engines used to gather as many candidates as possible by advertising a position over a wide geographic area. Although thought to be a cost effective alternative, a human resource department or department manager will spend time outside their normal duties reading and screening resumes. A professional recruiter has the ability to read and screen resumes, talk to potential candidates and deliver a selective group in a timely manner. 3). "headhunters" for executive and professional positions. These firms are either contingency or retained. Although advertising is used to keep a flow of candidates these firms rely on networking as their main source of candidates. 4). Niche agencies specialize in a particular industrial area of staffing.

The stages in recruitment include sourcing candidates by networking, advertising or other methods. Utilizing professional interviewing techniques to understand the candidate’s skills but motivations to make a move, screening potential candidates using testing (skills or personality) is also a popular part of the process.

Employee experience management

Along with the notion of Experience Economy, Employee experience is defined as what an employee received during their interaction with careers’ elements (e.g. firms, supervisors, coworkers, customer, environment, etc.) that affect their cognition and affection and leads to their particular behaviors.

Employee Experience Management (EEM) is conceptualized by Abhari as an approach to deliver excellent experience to employees, which leads to the positive customer experience by emphasizing on their experiential needs - like Experiential Marketing for external customers.

employee engagement is a common characteristic amongst top employers^[9] but surprising scarce generally; “feedback is the key to giving employees a sense of where they’re going, but many organizations are remarkably bad at giving it."^[10] There are various ways that businesses can engender a culture of regular, open communication. These range from regular (weekly or monthly) departmental team meetings to monthly or quarterly meetings of the entire business. Where having actual meetings is not always possible, due to the nature of the business, shift work or having multiple locations an intranet can allow companywide dialogue. Enclosed corporate social networks^[11] allow more interaction between team members who do not physically interact on a regular basis such as telecommuters or teams based in different offices.

Shift Work 

Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of or provide service for respectively the 24 hours of the clock per each day of the week.

The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts.

A related yet different concept, the work shift, is the time period during which a person is at work.

 

Attendance management

Attendance management is the act of managing attendance or presence in a work setting to minimize loss due to employee downtime.

Attendance control has traditionally been approached using time clocks, timesheets, and time tracking software, but attendance management goes beyond this to provide a working environment which maximises and motivates employee attendance.

Leave Management

Leave Management is a program that is administered by the Department of Human Resource Services. Leave is granted to eligible full-time, part-time, time-limited and trainee employees.

Employease Leave Management helps Finance and HR Departments sleep better at night knowing that their leave programs are efficiently managed and accurately tracked.

 

 

 

Payroll Management

 n a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons. From an accounting perspective, payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations (e.g. in the US payroll is subject to federal and state regulations). From an ethics in business viewpoint payroll is a critical department as employees are responsive to payroll errors and irregularities: good employee morale requires payroll to be paid timely and accurately. The primary mission of the payroll department is to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and timely with the correct withholdings and deductions, and to ensure the withholdings and deductions are remitted in a timely manner. This includes salary payments, tax withholdings, and deductions from a paycheck.