COMMERCE 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Job Rotation, Brickwork, W. M. Keck Observatory
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Human resource management: finding and keeping the best employees. Human resource management: the process of determining human resource needs and then recruiting, selecting, developing, motivating, evaluating, compensating and scheduling employees to achieve organizational goals. Involved in planning, record keeping and other admin activities. Called personnel : clerical functions such as screening applications, keeping records, processing the payroll and finding new employees when necessary. 1 organizations" recognition of employee as their ultimate resource. 2 changes in the law and rewrote traditional practices. In past there was little need to nurture and develop them. All the jobs that hr does not was done by functional departments that employed them. Expect 2013: 50% of their hr roles shift to strategic input less hr admin. No longer responsibility of just one department. Shortage of workers skilled in areas (computers, biotechnology, robotics, the sciences, green technology, and the development of clean energy sources like these solar panes)