Human Resource Management
(and Talent Management)
Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD of Authenticity Consulting, LLC
Introduction
The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) have to carry out these activities themselves because they can't yet afford part- or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have -- and are aware of -- personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have.
Note that some people distinguish a difference between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development, a profession). Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of organizations, e.g., career development, training, organization development, etc.
There is a long-standing argument about where HR-related functions should be organized into large organizations, eg, "should HR be in the Organization Development department or the other way around?"
The HRM function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change over the past 20-30 years. Many years ago, large organizations looked to the "Personnel Department," mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. More recently, organizations consider the "HR Department" as playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner.
Recently, the phrase "talent management" is being used to refer the
activities to attract, develop and retain employees. Some people and organizations
use the phrase to refer
especially to talented and/or high-potential employees. The phrase often is
used interchangeably with the field of Human Resource Management -- although
as the field of talent management matures, it's very likely there will be an
increasing number of people who will strongly disagree about the interchange
of these fields. For now, this Library uses the phrases interchangeably.
Sections of This Topic Include:
Basic Overviews of Human Resource Management
Getting the Best Employees
Paying Employees (and Providing Benefits)
Training Employees
Ensuring Compliance to Regulations
Ensuring Safe Work Environments
Sustaining High-Performing Employees
Basic Overviews of Human Resource Management (and Talent Management)
The reader might best be served to first get a sense for the scope and depth of the field of Human Resource Management by reading materials at some of the following links in this Overview, and. then read information at the subtopics listed later on below in this overall topic in the Library.
Overviews of Human Resource Management
Management
Quiz - Part 1
Employee Relations
Quiz - Part 2
Employee Relations
Quiz - Part 3
Employee Relations
Quiz - Part 4
Lexicon for
the HR Novice (tongue in cheek)
Avoiding
Employee Relations Pitfalls In Smaller Businesses
When an HR
Department is Necessary
When
is the Right Time for an HR Expert?
"Talent Management" - New Movement in Human Resource Management?
The following subtopic in the Library describes how many people and organizations are beginning to use the phrase "Talent Management" to refer to the activities of attracting, developing and retaining employees.
General Resources About Human Resource Management
Additional Information
for Nonprofits
Capterra's listing
of HR software
Internet
Resources for Human Resources
Do
You Really Know Your Contractors? – The Hard Evidence for Contractor Screening
and Employment Background Check Searches
Human Resources and the Internet
HRIM Mall
Human Resources Management and Employer Resources Online Information
Human Resource Management Basics
Dr. John Sullivan's List of Articles
Checklist to Review
Nonprofit Human Resource Practices
Management and HR articles
Human Resources IQ
Getting the Best Employees
Staffing
-- Workforce planning
Staffing
-- Specifying Jobs and Roles
Staffing
-- Recruiting
Staffing
-- Outsourcing (having services and functions performed by non-employees)
Staffing
-- Screening Applicants
Staffing
-- Selecting (Hiring) New Employees
Paying Employees (and Providing Benefits)
Training Employees
Career
Development
Employee
Orientation
Leadership
Development
Management
Development
Personal
Development
Supervisoral
Development
Training
and Development
Ensuring Compliance to Regulations
Personnel
Polices and Records
Employee
Laws, Topics and Issues
Ethics
- Practical Toolkit
Ensuring Safe Work Environments
Diversity
Management
Dealing
with Drugs in the Workplace
Employee
Assistance Programs
Ergonomics:
Safe Facilities in the Workplace
Dealing
with HIV/AIDS in the Workplace
Personal
Wellness
Preventing
Violence in the Workplace
Ensuring
Safety in the Workplace
Supporting
Spirituality in the Workplace
Diversity
Management
Sustaining High-Performing Employees
Employee Performance
Management
Group Performance
Management
Interpersonal
Skills
Personal Productivity
Retaining
Employees
For the Category of Human Resources:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
For-Profit
Field
Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit and retain the best employees for your business. Research shows that employee turnover is often the result of poor supervision -- this book shows you how to supervise employees so that the needs of both the business and its emplyees are always being met. Includes tips and tools to effectively lead yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Also includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem, especially among employees of small businesses.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Nonprofit
Field
Guide to Leadership and Supervision With Nonprofit Staff
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit and retain the best staff members for your nonprofit. Includes guidelines to effectively lead yourself (as a Board member or a staff member), other individuals, groups and the nonprofit organizations. Includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem among nonprofit staff. Explains how to cultivate a strong relationship between the Board and Execuive Director. This book is customized to nature and needs of nonprofits having extremely limited resources.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Personal Development -- Recommended Books
Personal Productivity -- Recommended Books
Personal Wellness -- Recommended Books
Supervision -- Recommended Books
Training and Development -- Recommended Books
