Posted by Celia Couture on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 @ 09:00 AM
The Free Management Libary Recently published an article regarding Human Resource Management (HRM) and the importance of looking at HRM as a cost saving measure. In today's difficult economic time, many companies know and understand the importance of having an "expert" manage human resources and talent management. It is important, that companies protect themselves and their employees. There are a number of ways to do this, hire a staff or use consulting services with highly skilled resources. If you are a small to mid-size business owner, it may be more cost effective for you to hire part-time "experts" to help you get your human resource requirements optimized for your company.
The Free Management Library defines the Human Resources Management (HRM) as: including a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you 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.
The HRM function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change over the past 20-30 years. Many years ago, large organizations looked to the "Personnel Department," mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. More recently, organizations consider the "HR Department" as playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner.
Recently, the phrase "talent management" is being used to refer the activities to attract, develop and retain employees. Some people and organizations use the phrase to refer especially to talented and/or high-potential employees.
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