Human Resources

Human resource departments can play vital roles to any major company or corporation. Some would argue that HR departments are the backbone of any successful business. These departments are responsible such things as hiring employees and motivating them as well as bringing diversity to the company. The HR management must be goal orientated, creative, and above all else unbiased towards employees and the company itself. HRM is the part of the organization concerned with the "people" dimension. HRM can be viewed in one of two ways. First, HRM is a staff or support function in the organization. Its role is to provide assistance in HRM matters to line employees, or those directly involved in producing the organization's goods and services. Second, HRM is a function of every manager's job.(DeCenzo & Robbins,2007)

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a key organizational resource that has primary responsibility for getting good people, training them properly, motivating them, and keeping them in the organization (DeCenzo & Robbins,2007) All members of the HRM department must effectively work together in order to be successful. Being successful means that quality employes are brought into an organization, trained properly, motivated to do their jobs and want to be great workers, and having these same employees stay employed at the organization.

Without human resource management, this can be a difficult task. Usually one person is in charge of hiring and after that employees are placed directly into the workforce without proper training and little to no knowledge of what their job entails. On the job training can be scary and misinterpreted by some. Without HRM employees would be forced to be trained by watching other employees and sadly not everyone does their job properly. If one person is taught to do a job by another that is doing it improperly than the job continues to get done wrong. This is something that no organization should want. There would be no one to boost moral for employees other than themselves, no one to bring diversity to the organization, these things can lead to high turnover rates. High turnover rates can in turn lead to giving an organization a bad reputation and overall a collapsing infrastructure.

The primary function of human resource management can be broken down into four basic

functions: staffing, training and development, motivation, and maintenance. As stated earlier, HRM must work as one to make sure this primary function is successful. No one function is more important or less important than the other. In fact each serves its own purpose to ensure that organizations and employees can co-exist in a happy environment. Should one of the four functions not be properly carried out, the entire human resources department could potentially collapse. In a sense one could metaphorically compare human resource management to a chain. If one link