Strategic Human Resource Management

The focus of Human Resource Management is on managing the employer-employee relationship. That is, the productive use of people in achieving the company's strategic business objectives.

Human Resource Management is just as important in a company as Finacial Mnaagement, Production Management, Strategic Management and even Marketing. These days mistakes in Human Resource Management can lead to legal compliance issues, managers need to be aware of the risks and more importantly, of the benefits of good Human Resource management within an organization.

Areas of Human Resource Management.

Job Analysis the definition of a job in terms of specific tasks and responsibilities and identifying the abilities, skills and qualifications needed to perform it successfully.

Human Resource Planning also known as employment planning, it is the process by which an organization attempts to ensure that it has the right number of qualified people in the rights jobs at the right time.

Recruitment is the process of seeking and appointing the required qualified resources for a poisiton.

Performance Management and appraisals is used to determine how well and employee is doing their job, achieving objectives and and identifying training and improvement needs.

Human Resource Development deals with the process of developing and maintaining certain attitudes, skills and knowledge required for employees to perform well at their jobs, improve performance, develop themselves for futher career opportunities and achieve their own personal career goals.

Career Planning and Development activities benefit bothe employees and employers by identifying employee career goals, possible future job opportunities. This ensure the company has qualified and ready employees when they need them.

Employee Motivation is vital to the success of any organisation. highly motivated employees tend to be more productive and will maintain loyal.

Compensation and Remuneration relates to the cash rewards an employee gets for his work. This cna include base salary, bonus, incentive payments and allowances. A critical area of Human Resource Management

Benefits are often non-cash compensation, icnlude life or health insurance, superannuation, medical and dental benefits, leave allowances and tuition refund programs.

Industrial Relations or employee relations focuses on workplace relations which include trade unions, industrial tribunals, employer associtions and legal requirements.

Health and Safety deals with Occupational Heal and Safety but also deals with having a safe workplace for your employees without discimination, harrassment, equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.

Human Resouces strategies defines the direction in which a company intends to move and establishes the framework for action by which it intends to get there.

This section of Engineers International provides some practical advice in these areas of Human Resource Management.

By Aninka Morhall