2 May 2013

HR MANAGEMENT - The Four Basic Skills of HR Management

















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