Human Resource Management Basics
People are essential to the success of our City. HR professionals play a pivotal role in how successful our employees are. Good Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential for Cities of all sizes.
Human Resource Management, or HRM, is the practice of managing people to achieve better performance. For example, if you hire people to work for the City, you are looking for people who fit the established culture, as they will be happier, stay longer, and be more productive than people who don’t or won’t fit into the culture.
The HR department provides the knowledge, tools, training, legal advice, administration, and talent management, which are crucial to sustaining and advancing our employee base. This is what Human Resource Management boils down to - optimizing employee performance through better management of human resources. The next question is, who are these Human Resources?
What is a Human Resource?
It may feel a bit weird to refer to people as ‘human resources’. Human Resources are all the people who, in one capacity or another, work for or contribute to maintaining our City.
These people make up our workforce. They can be regular employees, for example, but also contractors. These people include independent contractors, workers provided by contract firms, on-call workers, and temporary help agency workers. Because these people are all involved in the company to a different extent, the way they are managed and involved in the organization should also be different.
HR basics
When talking about Human Resource Management, several elements are considered cornerstones for effective HRM policies. These cornerstones are:
1. Recruitment & selection
Recruitment and selection are arguably the most visible elements of HR.
2. Performance management
Performance management involves helping people to become their best selves at work, boosting the City’s stability.
3. Learning & development
Learning and development ensure that employees adapt to changes in processes, technology, and societal or legal shifts, and help employees to reskill and upskill.
4. Succession planning
Succession planning is the process of planning contingencies in case key employees leave the City.
5. Compensation and benefits
Fair compensation is key to motivating and retaining employees. One of the fundamentals of human resource management concerning pay is ensuring equity and fairness.
Benefits are just as important as the pay, as they are supplemental to money in your pocket.
Here, at the City of Red Bank, and specifically in the Human Resources Department, we strive to be an Employer of Choice for our area. By focusing on this goal, we want to ensure that our employees know the significance of their role with the City, come to work every day with the vision to make and keep Red Bank a prime place to work and live, and to end each day knowing that they’ve put their best foot forward, and Red Bank is better for it.
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