by Kermit Burley,
Demand Media
Human resource (HR) management is a vital part of your company. To be truly effective, your human resource team must be experts in a number of important areas. The HR team is responsible for diverse aspects of each employee's career, from recruitment to hiring to various aspects of their job while employed at your company. An effective human resource team effectively executes your policies and procedures and keeps your workforce motivated and productive.
1. Hiring and Recruitment
Your human resource manager must be
adept at hiring and recruiting new employees. Identifying, recruiting,
interviewing and hiring high-performing employees is essential for the long
term success of your company. Creating policies and procedures for the hiring
and recruiting process and teaching these skills to all of your managers is
also critical for the future of your organization.
2. Compensation and Benefits
Human resource managers must also
create, administer and improve your compensation and benefit structures.
Retaining excellent associates depends on many factors. Outstanding pay and
benefits are two critical factors that will ultimately determine how well your
employees feel about your organization and the likelihood that they will remain
with your company in the future. Crafting an effective compensation system and
determining the best benefits package for all of your employees are skills that
are mandatory for your HR manager.
3. Training and Development
Training and development skills are
also vital assets for your human resource manager. The ability to create
training programs that solve human performance problems will yield important
benefits for your organization. Instructional design skills, as well as
outstanding facilitation and presentation abilities, result in training
programs that produce tangible results for your company. Talents in program
evaluation and employee feedback are also needed to constantly improve the
quality of all of your training programs.
4. Performance Management
The ability to effectively manage the
performances of your employees is an integral part of your human resource
manager's job duties. Establishing and implementing a complete performance
improvement process is an essential skill. Designing your performance review
process, maintaining it and effectively monitoring its implementation are challenging
tasks. Coaching your managers on how to use your performance management program
is also an important function of your HR team.
by Kermit Burley, Demand Media