The idea of human resource management took the management world by storm during the 1980s and has represented a important change of direction.

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The idea of human resource management took the management world by storm during the 1980s and has represented a important change of direction.

The human resources department has the task of deciding the number of people needed and the skills needed in the future so that the company can keep up with other rival companies and satisfy their customers. A human resource planner expertise’s in human resource planning and statistics, and he/she will do most of the preliminary work on personnel planning and strategy. This department will also decide whether to lay off employees, if the company is not doing to well, or to employee more people if the company needs to keep up with demand. Job may be rearranged so that the total amount of work to be done in a section is done by the remaining staff with out replacement of the leaver. Extra output can be achieved by using over time, although there is the possibility to spread the work out with the other staff. Companies don’t like the use of overtime, but it might be the best way if a employee leaves while another one is due back in a month after sick leave. First they will see if they can fill the jobs vacancy’s inside the business. if this does not work they will have to advertise in papers, television, bill boars ect.

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Recruitment and Selection

The process of attracting suitable applicants in sufficient numbers to the company through advertising is called recruitment. The process of deciding which of the potential employees attracted by recruitment are suitable and/or unsuitable for the organisations needs is called selection, this would include the interview and testing stages. Once all the application forms come in the selection starts. The first thing the H.R. department do is to sort the people out, people who fulfill the criteria and those who don’t. if they still have a lot of applicants they will go through the sort listing ...

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