Human resource management is a strategic practice with the explicit goal of providing practical techniques for managing an organization's workforce and achieving workforce alignment. Human resource management also has a strong theoretical foundation that promotes the viewpoint that employees are individuals with different goals, needs, and career aspirations. As such, each employee should not be thought of as another traditional business asset such as a computer workstation.
Key Activities
Human resource management takes the optimistic view that the vast majority of workers are motivated to make an optimal contribution to an organization - all that stand in their way are a lack of knowledge, inadequate training, and process challenges within the organization. The task and challenge for human resource management practitioners is to introduce innovative techniques that help managers within an organization to articulate clear goals that can be understood and undertaken by a workforce.
An effective human resource management strategy encompasses a wide range of interrelated activities including recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance challenges, and ensuring that personnel and management practices are aligned with various regulations. Other key activities of an organization's human resource management strategy include:
- Confirming staffing needs and deciding whether to use independent contractors or hire employees
- Managing the approach taken to employee benefits and compensation management
- Maintain accurate employee records and personnel practices
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Talent management and performance appraisals are key aspects of an effective human resource management strategy. Web-based solutions can transform traditional employee performance appraisals from a laborious, time consuming paper dependent process into a simple ongoing process that enables organizations to develop the critical talent that is required to achieve the organization's goals while playing an integral role in workforce development.
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