Key Functions of Human Resources
1️⃣ Human resource planning shapes recruitment, selection, performance management, learning and development, and all other Human Resources functions.
2️⃣ Recruitment and selection involves attracting people to work for the organization and selecting the best candidates.
3️⃣ Performance management is essential in ensuring that workers stay productive and engaged. Good performance management involves strong leadership, clear goal-setting, and open feedback.
4️⃣ Learning and development is the responsibility of the HR department and plays an increasingly important role in upskilling leaders and managers.
5️⃣ Career planning helps to engage and retain employees. For the organization, there are the benefits of better succession planning, higher productivity, and a stronger employer brand.
6️⃣ Function evaluation involves comparing various parts of the overall HR operation: the quality, and availability of workers, job location, working times, the economic situation, job responsibilities, and how much value a job adds to your organization. The idea behind function evaluation is that similar jobs should be rewarded similarly.
7️⃣ Rewards: compensation and benefits are integral to attracting the right kind of candidate for the role, and company.
8️⃣ Industrial relations. Maintaining good relations with with labor unions and other collectives and their members helps to spot and resolve potential conflicts quickly.
9️⃣ Employee participation and communication relates to spreading information relevant to employees.
🔟 Health and safety. HR plays an important role in creating and implementing health and safety regulations.
1️⃣1️⃣ Wellbeing. HR professionals assist and take care of employees when they run into problems and when things don’t go as planned.
1️⃣2️⃣ Administrative responsibilities includes personnel procedures and Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS).
Personnel procedures: the handling of promotions, relocations, discipline, performance improvement, illness, regulations, cultural and racial diversity, harassment, bullying, and so on.
Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) store employee data. HR is responsible for purchasing, implementing, and managing these systems so that they can use the data for better decision-making.