Encyclopedia > Human Resources

Article Content

Human Resources

Human Resources (or HR) is the field concerned with the recruitment, retention, and development of people belonging to an organization.

Under the HR umbrella, one usually finds:

Payroll
Staffing
Benefits
Compensation
Employee Relations
Labor Relations
Workforce Planning
Training & Development

Formerly known as "Personnel."

For more info

SHRM (The Society for Human Resource Management): http://www.shrm.org

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

... by some in the Canadian Parliament for being too much like the United States Bill of Rights, in contrast, its emphasis is focused on collective rights[?] unlike the Bill ...