What Is HR Actually?

Hello,
can any one tell me that what is HR actually and what is the job of HR person in an office? What they do there in organization? and how much they are paid for works?
Qaisar

Hi,
Mr Qaisar,
Did u HR course? (1) If yes, no any reply is required. (2) If no, go and buy a book from market, u ll come to know wat is HR?
Do u know what is Horse Race (HR)???
Expecting ur reply pls.
Regards
Sidheshwar

hi qaisar,
Hr is basically is the short form of Human Resource. Human Resource is a wide term & as a HR Executive, one would be responsible for hiring an employee, promotion, his emoluments, terms of service etc.
i hope this would suffice.
regards
viroo75

HR is a vast. One cannot simply suggest in few words and paragraphs. Its a backbone of any company. The base is depends on HR division and it has to be very strong. AS we have importance to handle various divisions of an company because if something goes wrong will affect the respective division but if something happened wrong with HR will affect whole company as this is related with handling of Human Resource of the organisation which is present on whole structure. We can try to conclude ny saying all the issues related with Human resource but cannot cover the whole concept as there are so many concepts and each concept has very deep in its own implications with the organisation.

Main job can be define as follows:

1. Understanding the vision of the organisation and nexusing the HR vision, mission and values with the Co's.

2. Using different eHR tools and focus on the HR goals and align the organisation success.

3. Sourcing

4. Performance evaluation with the help of modern and scientific HR tools and regular training and OD intervention.

5. Compensation structure designing and implementation as the part of respective Co's compensation philosophy.

I hope it will help you a bit.

Regards

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Pramod Kumar

Aequor Information Technologies

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To sum it all up, the main function of HR is to manage the Human 'Resources' of the company, i.e employees and fecilitate them by extracting maximum output from them to achieve the company's objectives.
This is done by identifying ther strenghths and weaknesses in the performance appraisals, and Training them based on the results.
Motivating them by increasing their benefits, salaries etc.
Helping the company in recruitment and selection of employees
and much more....
So, you see.....HR is indeed the backbone of the company as said earlier.
Smita

HR has to play following four roles:
1. a strategic partner, where you help to turns strategy into results by building organizations
2. the second is the “change agent role”, where you help make change happen.
3. the third is the “employee champion role”, where you manage the the intellectual capital; and,
4. the fourth would be an “administrative role” where you try to get things to happen better, faster, cheaper.
Kavita Gawans

Hi Qaisar



i guess by now you must have got some idea about your query. human resource acronymed as HR earlier was not that important part of the organizations. It was only after industrial revolution that people understood the importance of human resources and started treating them as an asset to the organization. Earlier organiations had a labour officer who used to take care of recruitment and administrative jobs in a company. but now the concept has changed from labour officer to wealth officer, human resource mgmt (HRM) to human resource development (HRD) and very recent is human resource management system (HRMS) and Strategic HR.



the work of an HR is now not just restricted to administrative jobs. A HR in an organization deals with:



A. Manpower planning, Recruitment and Placement

B. Performance Evaluation

C. Training and Development

D. Compensation and benefits

E. Personal records, attendance and punctuality

F. Working Environment and Welfare measurements

G. Change Management

H. Individual recognition and development

I. Periodical Reports



Apart from this they work on maintaining the human resources by periodic reviews on improving work culture and thus bringing out an overall organizational development. Concept like HR Balance scorecard is helping to directly align with HR to the companies goals and act as a strategic partner in achieving companies vision.



I hope you might have got the concept by now



Regards



Swati

Phew... So many replies!!! :wink:
I want to add one thing to what all the other members have said.
HR is Human Resources of the organisation.
As the times are changing the term has also changed and now it is called Human Capital, HR is no more a support system as it was known to be traditionally.
HR Department has the responsibility to check how to contribute in the Net profit of the company.
A crucial function to perform indeed.
Cheers
Archna

Dear
Kindly visit for more indepth knowledge on HR and its meaning.
humanresources.about.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources
www.answers.com/topic/human-resources
Regards
Julie