HR Roles and Responsibilities Paper

HR Roles and Responsibilities Paper

Human resource management is described as "the policies, practices, and systems that influence employees' behavior, attitudes, and performance."(Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J., Gerhert, B., Wright, P. (2003). Fundamentals of human resource management, 1e. McGraw-Hill Companies.) The human resource department is essential to the progress of an organization. When a company is equipped with a good human resource department it will tend to grow and prosper. The role of the department is to identify employees who are worthy of hiring, and knowing how to determine where they will fit into the company. Another role is that of knowing the laws, establishing company policies, monitoring benefits as well as salaries. With the ever changing economic status of the market in today's society companies must realize how the importance of having a qualified department. Knowing how to present strategies and policies that will help a company to stay above water in times of a financial crisis is of the utmost importance.

The human resource management is affected by changing trends in society. Three that have been chosen to show how the role of the human resource management is changing according to these trends are:

1. Globalization: according to the HRMagazine "the increasing importance of global business to a company's bottom line means that international assignment management will only grow in importance as a critical skill for Hr Practitioners." (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhert, Wright &, 2003, p. 1)When a company is considering globalization the company should take into ...

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... introduced, and the ethics of the employees will be very important in the success or failure of the organization. Companies need to invest in training and preparing the management for ever changing trends in human resources.

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Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J., Gerhert, B., Wright, P., &. (2003). Fundamentals of human resource management, 1e. McGraw-Hill Companies.