Administrative HR- Human Resources Foundations

[Reyed Mia (Apprentice, DIU)]

Administrative HR- Human Resources Foundations

- Suppose you were starting a brand new organization. You probably wouldn't have an HR Department because your organization is just getting underway. Nevertheless, as you begin to grow, you and the managers you hire will need to be concerned about five broad areas that involve people, staffing, retention, development, adjustment and managing change. Together, these five broad areas constitute human resource management or the HRM system, and much of it is administrative. The first area is staffing, which begins by identifying the work to be done and the kinds of personal characteristics necessary to do the work.

Determining the numbers of people and the mix of skills that you'll need to do the work, and then recruiting, selecting and eventually promoting qualified candidates. Retention of your new employees is more likely when you do three things well: Reward employees for performing their jobs effectively, ensure harmonious working relations between employees and their managers and maintain a safe, healthy work environment. Development focuses on preserving and enhancing your employees' competence in their jobs by improving their knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics.

HR specialists call these competencies. Adjustment is concerned with compliance with federal and state laws, as well as with your organization's policies, for example, through discipline, and business strategies such as cost leadership. Finally, managing change is an ongoing process. Its objective is to enhance your new organization's ability to anticipate and respond to developments in the environment, political, economic, social and technical, and to enable employees at all levels to cope with those changes.

To some, these activities are the special responsibilities of the HR Department, but they also lie within the core of every manager's job. In fact, HR Departments typically don't even appear until organizations reach about 100 employees. Thus, a broad objective of HR management is to allow all of your employees to perform to the very best of their abilities. A special objective of the HR Department is to help your line managers to manage those workers more effectively.

As Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric, noted, "Look, HR should be every company's 'killer app.' What could possibly be more important than who gets hired, developed, promoted, or moved out the door? Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple." Doing things to help line managers put the best people on the field, helping people at all levels to grow, getting them to play well together and to stay, is really what administrative HR is all about.

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