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Monday, October 18, 2010

ROLE OF HR MANAGERS

Human Resource Managers, nowadays, wear many hats. They perform mainly three different types of roles, while meeting the requirement of employees and customers, namely administrative, operational and strategic.

Administrative Roles
             The administrative roles of human resource management include policy formulation and implementation, housekeeping, records maintenance, welfare administration, legal compliance etc.

Operational Roles
         These roles are tactical in nature and include recruiting, training and developing employees; coordinating HR activities with the actions of managers and supervisors throughout the organisation and resolving differences between employees.

Strategic Roles
           An organisation’s success increasingly depends on the knowledge, skills and abilities of its employees, particularly as they help establish a set of core competencies (activities that the firm performs especially well when compared to its competitors and through which the firm adds value to its goods and services over a long period of time.