What is Human Resource Management?

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What is Human Resource Management?

Human resource management includes a variety of activities. There are many key factors for any large organisation to focus on such as the following:

  • What staffing needs to have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs

  • Recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers

  • Dealing with performance issues and ensuring its personnel and management practices conform to various regulations.

For the organisation activities also include managing its approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. Usually new business owners have to carry out these activities themselves because they can't yet afford part or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have and are aware of personnel policies, which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form employee manuals, which all employees have.

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Staff is a major resource in any business.  This is particularly true in a business like Boots, which has a very large amount of employees and which provides a range of services to its customers.

Managing human resources effectively is vital to Boots for several reasons:

  • The business needs to employ the right number of staff.  If it has too many employees it is not cost effective and if it has too few then it will not be able to carry out all of its work

  • The business needs to have a stable workforce.  It is ...

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