human resources

Human Resources (or HR) covers a wide range of business practices and activities with one common denominator: they all impact employees.

HR practitioners handle such activities as: compensation and benefits administration, change management, training, executive coaching, recruiting, succession planning, performance management, internal communications, employee recognition, legal compliance, and labor relations.  HR professionals are typically either generalists, managing many or all of these areas, or specialists in a specific discipline.

In recent years progressive organizations have placed a heavy emphasis on internal brand to attract and retain talent that brings a competitive advantage.  As employees look for more than just a paycheck and the public places corporate practices under greater scrutiny, HR becomes increasingly more strategic, developing talent strategies, analyzing and adapting corporate culture, and functioning as a trusted advisor to leadership on aligning talent with corporate goals.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “human resources”

• in Business
  With Telecommuting Ban, Mayer Dulls Yahoo's Cutting Edge Further
  Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's move to end telecommuting has a number of employees feeling they've just been told "let them eat cake".
  by dopodomani / on Feb 24, 2013
• in Social Media
  WorkSimple Launches Social Hub for Managing Business Goals
  WorkSimple launches new social goals platform that allows companies to set and manage goals from a single dashboard.
  by gsimon / on Jan 28, 2013
• in Technology
  HR Analytics not Achieving Results Yet
  A new report explores workplace analytics and what the best performers are doing better than the rest.
  by cmimanagers / on Dec 21, 2012

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