Functions of Human Resource Department
The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes 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.
Manpower Planning
It involves the planning for the future and finding out how many employees will be needed in the future by the business and what types of skills should they possess.
It depends on the following factors
- The number of people leaving the job
- The projected growth in sales of the business
- Technological changes
- Productivity level of the workers
