Human Resources Directed Towards Wk 1 Discussion
Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students. Student response 75 words each
Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:
Discuss why it is important to think strategically when administering human resources? What do you see as the challenges? What would be the intended benefits?
Student 1
It is important to think strategically when administering human resources because you wouldn’t want to violate any of the laws that protect the employee receiving any of the services. Also many roles for human resources are changing. It’s no longer an administrative and compliance role, they are now require to have a deeper and broader understanding of business issues. It is important to think strategically because human resources are now responsible for helping the business achieve organizational plans and results. The challenges I see is company’s that’s changing the HR roles will soon outsource HR. With the rules of salary and medical benefits constantly changing in different states it will be hard for someone to keep track unless they work with it everyday. The intended benefit is to have HR more aware with business to help enforce change and develop strategies to make it work. Another benefit is to increase capitol and improve the return of investments to the company.
Student 2
When administering Human Resources with strategy an organization may greatly benefit. Strategic human resource management may be viewed as an approach to the practice of human resources directed towards addressing business challenges in the areas of recruiting, screening, interviewing and hiring the correct employees to address business needs and making a direct contribution to an organization’s long-term objectives. One of the main principles of strategic human resource management that must be considered is that it helps improve business performance and strongly uphold a business culture that may inspire innovation while working towards gaining a competitive advantage. One of the greatest challenges that I see affecting strategic human resources is that the competition for talent will be stepped-up, it will be much more difficult to attract the best candidates for the open positions due to the improvement of labor market conditions. This is a challenge that will require the building of a stronger and reputable employer brand.