Employee selection helps an organization to employ competent workers. Job descriptions within an organization help to define the physical and mental requirements of a job position, the qualities and attitudes desired for an open position, and also help to define the undesired characteristics of an employee ("Human Resource Management," 2011). Interviews conducted will further help to determine a candidate's aptitude, achievements, and general intelligence. Human resources play an important role in employee motivation. Though financial rewards and a job's conditions of service are determined by external factors, human resource management must utilize behavioral sciences to determine what motivates people and help them to attain a sense of achievement through rewards that may be psychological or physiological. Employee evaluation within an organization will also help to determine to what extent an employee is motivated to perform required tasks. Evaluation helps to improve an organization's performance through employee improvement, helps to identify potential prospects within an existing employee base, and helps to link financial rewards to job performance. Because human resource managers often do not have the opportunity to evaluate employees directly, employee evaluation is occasionally conducted by supervisors and managers ("Human Resource Management," 2011). Human resource management also includes the provision of employee services. These services pay attention to the mental and physical health of an organization's employees, helping to retain existing employees and attracting others. Employee services may include providing loans to employees to providing counseling services ("Human Resource...
Within certain firms, human resource management is responsible for industrial relations. In order to successfully perform this function, human resources must keep up-to-date with the law and advise managers of changes therein; conduct negotiations; ensure agreements are reached and observe that agreements are maintained; correct situations that may go wrong; provide impetus for the introduction of joint-consultation between workers and management within an organization that may contribute to decision making processes; and provide statistical information about the workforce as it pertains to negotions ("Human Resource Management," 2011). Lastly, human resource management is responsible for the education, development, and training of an organizations employees. These tasks help to develop employees for "higher-grade" tasks and help to raise the efficiency and performance standards of an organization.
Through the development of human resource management, an organization can ensure that it complies with federal labor requirements and subsequently ensures that the most qualified people are employed within an organization. Human resource management also helps to ease tensions that may arise with an organization and helps to secure said organization's present and future successes.
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