Business Studies HR Notes
Chapter 16: Role of human resources
Introduction
Human resources are the process of managing employees in a workplace. It involves: reviewing the goals of the business rewarding valued employees
Working within the legal framework that regulates the employment relationship.
Human resource management
Human resource management -The process of managing staff within an organisation. It focuses on the relationship between the employer and the employee.
By being proactive and adopting a long-term think approach, managers may seek to affect and improve a diverse range of human resource issues within the business. E.g. policies and practices, employment performance review techniques and training. The business must also develop appropriate performance review measures to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of their employees.
The benefits of adopting a long term (strategic) role to human resources include:
The development of a highly qualified workforce
The employment of a workforce relevant to the organisational needs of the business.
Interdependence with other key business functions
The operations function work closely with the human resource to ensure that the business has recruited staff with the relevant skills experience.
The human resource is related to marketing as staff must be motivated and skilled to develop products. It is also through marketing that businesses’ are able to determine the skills required for employees to produce the desired product.
The human resource is related to finance as budgets are often established that allocate funds towards training and workplace education issues. Human resources must also work within these budgets to provide for the needs for its employees.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing- When a company takes a part of its business functions and gives it to another company to complete.
Some businesses lack funds to employ specialist human resource managers to manage the role of employment relations.
Some
Introduction
Human resources are the process of managing employees in a workplace. It involves: reviewing the goals of the business rewarding valued employees
Working within the legal framework that regulates the employment relationship.
Human resource management
Human resource management -The process of managing staff within an organisation. It focuses on the relationship between the employer and the employee.
By being proactive and adopting a long-term think approach, managers may seek to affect and improve a diverse range of human resource issues within the business. E.g. policies and practices, employment performance review techniques and training. The business must also develop appropriate performance review measures to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of their employees.
The benefits of adopting a long term (strategic) role to human resources include:
The development of a highly qualified workforce
The employment of a workforce relevant to the organisational needs of the business.
Interdependence with other key business functions
The operations function work closely with the human resource to ensure that the business has recruited staff with the relevant skills experience.
The human resource is related to marketing as staff must be motivated and skilled to develop products. It is also through marketing that businesses’ are able to determine the skills required for employees to produce the desired product.
The human resource is related to finance as budgets are often established that allocate funds towards training and workplace education issues. Human resources must also work within these budgets to provide for the needs for its employees.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing- When a company takes a part of its business functions and gives it to another company to complete.
Some businesses lack funds to employ specialist human resource managers to manage the role of employment relations.
Some