Human Resources Management - HRM

The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities,
and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use
independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and
training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with
performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform
to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to
employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies.
Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) have to carry out these
activities themselves because they can’t yet afford part- or full-time help.
However, they should always ensure that employees have — and are aware of —
personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are
often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees
have.
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Note that some people distinguish a difference between
between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development, a
profession). Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes
the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of organizations,
including, eg, career development, training, organization development,
etc.
There is a long-standing argument about where HR-related functions
should be organized into large organizations, eg, “should HR be in the
Organization Development department or the other way around?”
The HRM
function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change over the past 20-30
years. Many years ago, large organizations looked to the “Personnel Department,”
mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. More recently,
organizations consider the “HR Department” as playing a major role in staffing,
training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are
performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner.

vir: http://www.sayeconomy.com/human-resources-management-hrm/