Human resources

 

Task 1 Human Resources

 

Define Human resources.

The department that is concerned about the hiring, administration, and training of employees

 

What is the role of human resources? Define in detail.

-        Staffing: Involves the hiring process from posting a job to negotiating a salary package

-        Development of workplace policies: to develop the verbiage of policies (add, change, write, and communicate the policy)

-        Compensation and benefits administration: HR determines the compensation and benefits an employee receives for her/his work and make sure it´s comparable with what similar with what similar jobs are being paid (health benefits, bonuses, pay, vacations, etc.)

-        Retention: Its concerned with keeping and motivating employees for them to stay in the company

-        Training and development: To make sure that the employees are trained to do the job but also continue to grow and develop skills.

-        Dealing with laws affecting employment: To deal with the laws that affect the workplace like discrimination, worker safety laws, health-care requirements, etc.

-        Worker protection: Be aware of worker protection requirements and ensure the workplace is up to the standards (chemical hazards, heating and ventilation, etc.)

-        Communication: good communication and management skills.

-        Awareness of external factors: consider the outside forces that the company has no direct control over (globalization, technology, health-care costs, layoffs, etc.)

 

 

What is Capital?

It’s the cash, valuables or goods used to generate income for a business

 

In your opinion, is human resources necessary? Explain.

It is necessary, they make an organizations capital work for them. And they are concerned with employees, since they recruit them to their compensations, training, to ensure their rights and their position in the company.

 

What are the main areas of Human resources?

-        Recruiter

-        Compensation analyst

-        Human resources assistant

-        Employee relations manager

-        Benefits manager

-        Work-life coordinator

-        Training and development manager

-        Human resources manager

 

 

Define Human resource management.

It’s the process of employing people, training them, developing policies relating to them and developing strategies to retain them.

 

What are the main responsibilities of a Human Resource Manager? Define

them in detail.

Staffing:

1. Development of a staffing plan. This plan allows HRM to see how many people they should hire based on revenue expectations.
2. Development of policies to encourage multiculturalism at work. Multiculturalism in the workplace is becoming more and more important, as we have many more people from a variety of backgrounds in the workforce.
3. Recruitment. This involves finding people to fill the open positions.
4. Selection. In this stage, people will be interviewed and selected, and a proper compensation package will be negotiated. This step is followed by training, retention, and motivation

Policies:

• Discipline process policy
• Vacation time policy
• Dress code
• Ethics policy
• Internet usage policy

Compensations:

• Pay
• Health benefits
• 401(k) (retirement plans)
• Stock purchase plans
• Vacation time
• Sick leave
• Bonuses
• Tuition reimbursement

Retention:

1. Issues around the job they are performing
2. Challenges with their manager
3. Poor fit with organizational culture
4. Poor workplace environment

Training and development:

• Job skills training, such as how to run a particular computer program
• Training on communication
• Team-building activities
• Policy and legal training, such as sexual harassment training and ethics training

External factors:

1.                Globalization and offshoring
2. Changes to employment law
3. Health-care costs
4. Employee expectations
5. Diversity of the workforce
6. Changing demographics of the workforce
7. A more highly educated workforce
8. Layoffs and downsizing
9. Technology used, such as HR databases
10. Increased use of social networking to distribute information to employees

 

 

 

Which of the responsibilities you mentioned in the previous questions do you

think is the most challenging or a HRM? Why?

I think that being aware of outside forces that may affect the company is the most difficult, because you have to deal with a unknown force that you don’t have control of. And these forces can impact negatively your job as a human resource manager.

 

What are the most important skills of a Human Resource Manager?

-             Organization

-        Able to multitask

-        People skills

-        Good communication

-        Strategic mind-set

-        Ethics