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Strategic Role of Human Resource Management -------from /PDFweb/215.htm 1. Human Resource Management at Work What Is Human Resource Management To understand what human resource management is, we should first review what managers do. Most experts agree that there are five basic functions all managers perform planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. In total, these functions represent the management process. Some of the specific activities involved in each function include: Planning: Establishing goals and standards; developing rules and procedures; developing plans and forecasting-predicting or projecting some future occurrence. Organizing: Giving each subordinate a specific task; establishing departments; delegating authority to subordinates; establishing channels of authority and communication; coordinating the work of subordinates. Staffing: Deciding what type of people should be hired; recruiting prospective employees; selecting employees; setting performance standards; compensating employees; evaluating performance; counseling employees; training and developing employees. Leading: Getting others to get the job done; maintaining morale; motivating subordinates. Controlling: Setting standards such as sales quotas, quality standards, or production levels; checking to see how actual performance compares with these standards; taking corrective action as needed. In this book, we are going to focus on one of these functions: the staffing, personnel management, or (as its usually called today) human resource (HR) management function. Human resource management refers to the practices and policies you need to carry out the people or personnel aspects of your management job. These include: Conducting job analyses (determining the nature of each employees job) Planning labor needs and recruiting job candidates Selecting job candidates Orienting and training new employees Managing Wages and Salaries (how to compensate employees) Prov