HRM: Human Resource Management
People join an organization and they leave a boss.
Work matters. HRM would be easy, if it weren’t for the people.
Introduction
Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the functions in an organization that designs the jobs, recruits, hires, creates and administers the rules of employee conduct and the relationship between employer and employee, and manages termination through firing, severance, or retirement. HRM has become very sophisticated in the last several decades as a greater appreciation of the strategic importance of leveraging an organization’s talent pools has developed.
“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide
Designing jobs
What amount of tasks and responsibilities constitute a full time position? Like Goldilocks, the scope and requirements of a job need to be not too much and not too little work. In designing jobs and…
