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Hr Roles And Responsibilities

HR Roles and Responsibilities
"In any organization, managing personnel is the process of making sure the employees (not the customers) are as productive as they can be. This can include hiring, firing, or transferring people to/from jobs, they can do most productively" (Wikipedia.org). This paper will discuss the changing roles of Human Resource (HR) management in response to trends in globalization, technology, diversity, e-business, and ethics.
Globalization
Despite the level of global organizations and its participation capacity, an organization must recognize that countries are not identical and differ in many factors such as
Culture
Culture can greatly affect Human Resource Management (HRM) because it can influence a country's laws, definitions of right and wrong, and influencing what people value. Therefore, culture can affect the people's economic systems and efforts to invest in education.
Education and Skill Levels
Countries differ in the level to which their labor markets include people with education, and skills of value to employers. "The education and skill levels of a country's labor force affect how and the extent to which companies wants to operate" (Gerhart, Hollenbeck, Noe, & Wright, 2004, chapter 15, pg 484); poorly educated populations will have, low wage jobs; where as, high rate college education will yield a high productivity and low turnover.
Economic System
The economic system of a country can influence HRM practices whether the
system is capitalist or socialist. Its government involvement in the economy through taxes or compensation, price controls, and other activities, can influence HRM practices.
Political-Legal System
A country's political-legal system—its government, laws, and regulations—strongly impinges on human resource management. The country's laws often dictate the requirements HRM practices, such as training, compensation, hiring, firing, and layoffs. (Chap 15)
Technology
According to Trends in HRM,...