Role of HRM

Human Resource Planning, HR people need to determine the long-term/short-term human resource needs, area they need and the requirements of jobs. Job descriptions and job specifications will be designed base on the outcomes of the job analysis information. HR representative people must knowledgeable about the design of work process systems in which people succeed and contribute. And Human resources are also responsible for tying incentives and rewards to certain positions and roles in order to maximize performance levels. This is a strategic thinking task because it affects every single person in the organization and has to be planned separately for each position, depending on level, department and goals.

Employee Development, another important role handled by the human resource is the selection and development of employees. Develop a training & development strategy according to the requirements of legislation. Provide the proper training and with the improvement of productivity and delivery to those employees who selected base on job requirements.

Performance Management &, regular, balanced and systematic appraisals must be administered consistently in order to evaluate the performance of each individual in the organization. This allows human resources to pinpoint the weaknesses of an individual's work style and the strengths. They can then share this information with the employee in order to affect a change in performance. This in turn will lead to more productivity and potentially better returns on human investment.

Career Management, managing people is one of the most difficult aspects of organizational management .It means dealing with people who differ physically and psychologically. HR need to always talk with employees to find out what are individual assessments of abilities, interests, career needs and goals or all kinds negative feedback.

And base on all kinds of feedbacks, Human resource professionals need to help individuals plan and advance their careers, which keep employees more enjoyable at their work and reduce the employee turnover rate. We need to know that early attention to developing problems lets you turn the painful experience of negative feedback into the more constructive process of corrective feedback.

Design of Organization, Analyze the work processes and recommends improvements when necessary. HRM also need to scan the world environment and identify emerging trends that will affect the organization and the management of people therein. In this role, the HR person contributes to the development of and the accomplishment of the organization-wide business plan and objectives. The HR business objectives are established to support the attainment of the overall strategic business plan and objectives.

Fostering effective methods of goal setting, communication and empowerment through responsibility, builds employee ownership of the organization. The HR professional helps establish the organizational culture and climate in which people have the competency, concern and commitment to serve customers well. In this role, the HR people provides employee development opportunities, employee assistance programs, gain sharing and profit sharing strategies, organization development interventions, due process approaches to problem solving and regularly scheduled communication opportunities.

Another part of this role, HR focuses on developing organizational processes aimed at hiring and motivating talented workers through activities such as placing recruiting advertisements, helping develop compensation plans.

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