Human Resource Management

Essay by lisarabbit February 2009

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IntroductionToday's business environment is characterized by rapid and continual change. The business environment change will cause company trouble. The organization will meet several environmental challenges such as technological challenges, economic challenges, and globalization and so on. Human resource management (HRM) is on managing people within the employer- employee relationship. HRM involves four main functions; there are acquisition, development, rewards and maintenance. When the organization meet environmental challenges, these human resource management (HRM) functions will play an important role, they can assist an organization to achieve it strategic objectives in such an environment. In this article, I will introduce what is human resource management functions, what are the usages of human resource management functions, what changes that HR managers face to, and how these functions work when business environment change.

Human resource management (HRM) is on managing people within the employer- employee relationship. Specifically, it involves the productive use of people in achieving the organization's strategic business objectives and the satisfaction of individual employee needs.

HRM involves four main functions; there are acquisition, development, rewards and maintenance. Each function contains several activities that they can represent the core of HRM.

Today's business environment is characterized by rapid and continual change. The business environment change will cause company trouble. Modern organizations exist in a turbulent environment filled with challenges over which an organization and its HR department have many influences. These changes shape the way that organization operates and thus affect HR policies and practices. Changes in the organization's environment evolve at varying rates. HR managers are responsible for dealing with the external, organizational, and professional issues that effect employees.

Changes involve external changes and internal changes. The external changes come from several sources: changing technologies, economic cycles, and globalization and so on. Internal changes...