sábado, 1 de diciembre de 2012

The role of human resources


Human resources: it is the aspect of business operations that deals with hiring, developing and keeping good staff.

1. - Recruiting employees

Recruitment: a process that involves attracting people to apply for a job, checking applicant qualifications and hiring the person who has been chosen.
Job description: describes the requirements and responsibilities of a particular job (necessary education, skills, expertise and experience).
There are two types of recruit:
-          Internally: transfer people around promote from within.
-          Externally: advertise in newspaper, web sites and job fairs.

2. – Selecting employees

Selecting employees is a step by step process.
-          Ask candidates to submit a resume
-          Application form
-          Interview/s
-          Sometimes, a test
-          Reference check

3. – Training and developing employees

It begins right away and last as long as the employee is with the company.
-          Training is teaching skills that are learned by practice.
-          Development: is a long process of upgrading an employee’s performance over time by giving his / her opportunities to grow, for example: technology training, management seminars and workshops in time management or communication).

4. – Assessing employees performance

-          Consider how well employees do on the job assessment
-          Need to tell employees what is expected of them: expectations
-          Performance Standards are expectations that must be specific, measurable and easily communicated (the employee consistently met deadlines over a 6 month period).
-          Supervisors ask employees to assess themselves.
-          Employee and supervisor discuss the result and agree on an action plan for improvements, changes or promotion.

5. – Compensating employees

It is the major function of human resources. Employee compensation is the largest operating cost of running a business.
-          Wages
-          Salary, the fixed amount an employee receives on a regular basis
-          Hour wage – retail
-          Commissions, the percentage of sales they negotiate for the company (real estate agents)




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