Functions of Human Resource Management

4. Evaluating Employees

The HRM department is the one that constantly checks employee performance and behavior in the organization and evaluates it to determine the worth of the employee in that organization. So that they can give feedback to managers, who in turn will use that information to improve employee performance in the organization, identify the potential of some workers to refer them for promotions or appraisals or transfer them to other divisions where better use of their talent/experience can be taken. Also this is also important for performance appraisals done annually in organizations.

5. Industrial Relations

This function involves the HRM to help maintain good relations, between clients, employees, employers as well as with government agencies. Employees may include unions and representatives of the organizations etc. By marinating good relations between all these parties, it makes it easier for an organization to function more smoothly.

6. Provision of Employee’s Services

[large]In big organizations, it is important to pay attention to the mental and physical needs of the employees, since hiring and firing wastes time, resources and money, as new employees need to be trained according to the organizations customs. In order to keep good staff, there well-being needs to be taken into consideration, for instance, giving loans or counseling them when needed and making schemes for the benefit of employees, like, sick leaves and payments, medical and healthcare facilities etc.

In conclusion, it is important to understand, that human resource management functions vary according to the size, structure and the policy of organizations, it cannot be expected of every organization to have the same functions being performed by their human resource management, neither is it being implied that all these functions are of the utmost importance for an organization, they just make it easier for an organization to run smoothly, but in order to do that, for a large organization to perform all these functions, it would require them to have a big HRM team. However the above listed are just a few of the many functions that are performed by HRM everywhere.

Written By: Hannah Paul