HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

The human resources management has many different activities: Selection, Recruitment, Employment Legislation, Discipline, Development, Training, Trade Unions, Productivity and Motivation

RECRUITMENT

This activity is based in detect witch job have a vacancy and what type of employee we need for the vacancy.

Later the recruitment section posts Advertising in internet or magazines etc with this structure:

l Job description – outline of the role of the job holder

l Person specification – outline of the skills and qualities required of the post holder

l Applicants may demonstrate their suitability through application form, letter or curriculum vitae (CV)

SELECTION

In this part the Human Resources section make a selection process to define who is the best candidate for the job about all the people who have respond to the advertisement.
This process follows these points:

l Interview – most common method

l Psychometric testing – assessing the personality of the applicants – will they fit in?

l Aptitude testing – assessing the skills of applicants

l In-tray exercise – activity based around what the applicant will be doing, e.g. writing a letter to a disgruntled customer

l Presentation – looking for different skills as well as the ideas of the candidate

EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION

The employment legislation regulates how store and use the tools of work and how have to deal with our employees and how have to deal between they.

DEVELOPMENT
Developing the employee can be regarded as investing in a valuable asset
– A source of motivation
– A source of helping the employee fulfil potential

TRAINING

Similar to development:
– Provides new skills for the employee
– Keeps the employee up to date with changes in the field
– Aims to improve efficiency
– Can be external or ‘in-house’

REWARDS SYSTEMS

The rewards systems are the systems of pay and benefits used by the firm to reward workers. The rewards do not have to be necessarily in Money; they can be in fringe benefits or holidays, etc…

TRADE UNIONS

The human resources sections have the task of build relationship with employee representatives. It’s very important the task of consultation and negotiation whit trade unions. That contributes to smooth changue management and leadership.

PRODUCTIVITY

The productivity is the output per worker per period of time. It’s one way to measure the performance of the worker.

The task of Human Resources is measure this performance to value the workers contribution.

The appraisal must follow these points:

– Meant to be non-judgmental
– Involves the worker and a nominated appraiser
– Agreeing strengths, weaknesses and ways forward to help both employee and organisation