Roles and Responsibilities of Human Resource Management

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets of the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. The terms “human resource management” and “human resources” (HR) have largely replaced the term “personnel management” as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations. In simple words, HRM means employing people, developing their capacities, utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational requirement.

Human resource management (HRM)  is based primarily on the assumption that employees are individuals with varying goals and needs, and as such should not be thought of as basic business resources, such as trucks and filing cabinets. The field takes a positive view of workers, assuming that virtually all wish to contribute to the enterprise productively, and that the main obstacles to their endeavors are lack of knowledge, insufficient training, and failures of process. Human Resource Management is seen by practitioners in the field as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach. Its techniques force the managers of an enterprise to express their goals with specificity so that they can be understood and undertaken by the workforce and to provide the resources needed for them to successfully accomplish their assignments. As such, HRM techniques, when properly practiced, are expressive of the goals and operating practices of the enterprise overall. HRM is also seen by many to have a key role in risk reduction within organizations. Synonyms such as personnel management are often used in a more restricted sense to describe activities that are necessary in the recruiting of a workforce, providing its members with payroll and benefits, and administrating their work-life needs.

Roles and Responsibilities of Human Resource Management

The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding 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 your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) 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 of employee manuals, which all employees have. Note that some people distinguish a difference between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development, a profession). Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of organizations, including career development, training, and organization development.

Strategic Workforce Planning is the business process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. Access to talent includes considering all potential access sources (employment, contracting out, partnerships, and changing business activities to modify the types of talent required). By talent is meant the skills, knowledge, predisposition and ability to undertake required activities including decisions making. Strategic Planning considers the business risks concerning insufficient, disrupted, misemployed talent on the organization’s business priorities. Workforce planning is considered an iterative discipline. The cycle of workforce planning includes filling resource requests, analyzing resource utilization, forecasting capacity, managing and identifying the resources (human) to fill that capacity, and then re-starting the cycle.

Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job at an organization or firm. For some components of the recruitment process, mid- and large-size organizations often retain professional recruiters or outsource some of the process to recruitment agencies. This process is important so that the organization could hired the right and perfect person for the particular post so that it could brings benefits and contribute to the organization efficiently.

It is important that the Human Resources Department of an organization to help to reduce the organizations spending and outcomes efficiently so that it wont be spending blindly on certain materials for the organization itself. For example, the materials like stationeries. The Human Resources Department are holding the responsible to calculate the account for such materials so that it will saves cost in return. Purchasing more and in large quantity from the suppliers would get cheaper price than market itself. Obtaining discounts values from the supplier itself are also very important so that they could build a trust and relations in between this bargaining.

Human Resources Department of an organization mainly holds the responsible of the employment and employee flows of an organization. So when an organizations exceeded it limits of employment or facing any falling of the organization the Human Resources Department be responsible to sack or recalculate the salary wages of an employee so that it could helps the organization to saves cost. Lowering down the wages of a profession or employee who has many years of working experience was part of the process of the saving cost for the organizations. Sacking the unnecessary employee would be a preferable choice of all when an organization faces this kind of situations. Employee who still green and lack of working experience would be in danger and risk of being sack by the organization committee.

In 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 point of view, payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations. From 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 withholding’s and deductions, and to ensure the withholding’s and deductions are remitted in a timely manner

A performance appraisal, employee appraisal, performance review, or (career) development discussion is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated (generally in terms of quality, quantity, cost, and time) typically by the corresponding manager or supervisor. A performance appraisal is a part of guiding and managing career development. It is the process of obtaining, analyzing, and recording information about the relative worth of an employee to the organization. Performance appraisal is an analysis of an employee’s recent successes and failures, personal strengths and weaknesses, and suitability for promotion or further training. It is also the judgment of an employee’s performance in a job based on considerations other than productivity alone.

To conclude, the Human Resources Department of an organization are equally important as the other department such as marketing, finance, production and engineering because it is the department that helps the flow of an organization so that it could function well. It just that the case of the matter and the handling of problems of the department are different from each others. It remains one of the great assets of an organization in assisting and guiding for better employment. Each department plays it role, duty and responsible with one motive that is to assisting and improving it organization.