BU354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Resource Management
Document Summary
Organizational goals: an organization"s short and long-term outcomes that human resource management aims to support and enable. For an organization to achieve its goals, employees must engage in actions and behaviours that move the organization towards accomplishing them. Human resource management: the leadership and management of people within an organization using systems, methods, processes, and procedures that enable employees to optimize their performance and in turn their contribution to the organization and its goals. Human resource management is therefore critical to the success and survival of the organization. The field of human resource management thus focuses on what leaders and managers should do regarding the organizing human resource systems, policies, and procedures. A human resource department, on the other hand, is a specialized group with the primary focus on ensuring the most effective use of human resource systems across an organization to enhance employee performance and accomplish organizational goals. Human resource management must operate within the framework of an organization.
