roles and responsibilities of human resources

The human resources role has changed tremendously from being a mostly personnel function, consisting primarily of a lot of paper pushing, hiring and firing, to being totally responsible for the maximization of work efficiency. This primarily creates a better-trained, more flexible workforce that will add more to the bottom line. Believing that employees are key to the success of the business means human resource practices such as job design, job classification, using an intensive employee selection process, investing in employment development, rewarding employee performance, measuring employee satisfaction, and promotion from within.
Job design is the process of defining the way work will be performed and the tasks that will be required in a given job. To effectively design jobs, one must thoroughly understand the job as it exists, and its place in the larger work unit’s workflow process. There are three different approaches to job design: 1.) The motivational approach, 2.) The mec...