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The Human Resources department, also called the HR department, manages human resources. In other words: the HR department is responsible for the employees in the company.
In this article, we will enlighten you on the following topics:
Let's start by taking a closer look at what the term, HR, entails:
Human Resources is often abbreviated to HR and means personnel department. It is the department in the company that is responsible for the employees, including wellbeing and engagement. The HR department is also typically responsible for recruiting and hiring new employees.
The employees are the driving force behind the workplace and are a crucial resource in terms of competitiveness. It is therefore important that the employees experience a wellfunctioning workplace. Human Resources thus play a central role, as for example they are responsible for maintaining a healthy working environment. If you would like to learn more about what characterises a healthy working environment, you can benefit from reading the article here.
The management tasks in the HR department are typically called HRM, which is an abbreviation of the English word, Human Resource Management.
In the next section, we will make you more aware of what the term Human Resource Management entails.
Human Resource Management is the management of the company's employees and corresponds in a Danish translation to personnel administration. HRM includes the recruitment of new employees and thus the HRM tasks can be divided into two general categories, namely:
HRM is typically associated with employee performance interviews, personality tests and satisfaction surveys.
You have now acquired a good understanding of what the terms HR and HRM entail. In the next section, we will go further into the tasks that the HR department deals with.
One of the primary tasks as an HR employee is to retain the company's employees. This can be done by establishing or maintaining a strong corporate culture, including a healthy physical, social and psychological working environment. The HR department can do this based on the following 5 tasks:
If your company plans to employ one or more new employees, the HR department typically helps to initiate the recruitment process.
The recruitment process consists of, among other things, creating job advertisements and job interviews. Here, the HR department prepares job advertisements based on a job and profile analysis that clarifies what characterises the preferred applicant. HR can also be responsible for publishing job advertisements on various online channels, for example Facebook and LinkedIn or online job portals such as Findjobhub.
In mediumsized and large companies, it is also typically HR employees who review the applications and select the profiles that best suit the company.
We have prepared an article that goes in depth with the recruitment process in particular, click here to read it.
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