Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Introduction

It is true that desperate times call for desperate measures. In the constantly changing market environment, businesses have been confronted with a wide range of unprecedented challenges and these have forced them to rethink their business strategies. In their struggles to maintain a wide competitive moat in the market, the need for businesses to improve the quality of their human resource has increased significantly. With this, the job of Human Resource Management in providing businesses with quality human resource has also expanded.

Discussion

The role and responsibilities of the Human Resource Department has significantly increased in the past few years. This has especially been the case in the wake of the global economic recession that has led to a shrinking of the job markets (Boyer, 2013). As a result, the role of the human resource department has evolved into much more than recruitment, selection, staffing, organizational development, and staff training and development. Today, the role of the Human resource manager is to align the recruitment and development process with the strategic goals of the organization (Boyer, 2013).

In this regard, the article 'Ask Human Resources to Assist in Writing Business Plan' highlights the evolving role that human resource managers play an a constantly evolving market environment (Boyer, 2013). The article mainly explains how Human Resource Management plays an integral role in writing the business plan. Indeed, devising a business plan is a daunting challenge for any business, mainly because it incorporates a wide array of factors that simply cannot be ignored (Boyer, 2013). In this regard, the article explains how a veteran and highly experienced human resource manager or Human Resource Practitioner can help businesses with their business plan.

Human resource managers are able to make significant contributions to a business plan since mainly because they have accessibility to a range of critical components that driver an organization (Boyer, 2013). For example, the capabilities of the organization in terms of staff competency, the mindset of the employees, and insight into the projected growth of the company are critical factors that all human resource manager must be aware of when planning the resources of the business (Boyer, 2013). Therefore, they can play a pivotal role in devising the business plan of an organization.

Human resource managers can be entasked with an array of responsibilities that contribute significantly towards the business plan (Boyer, 2013). For example, the article explains how they are the ideal persons to write an executive summary, mission statement, and keys to success (past, present, future). Additionally, the human resource manager is also the ideal candidate when it comes to writing awards and recognitions, company ownership and management plans (Boyer, 2013). All these constitute nearly 25-40 percent of the overall business plan.

Ideally, an executive summary simply outlines the strategic goals of the organization. However, the article explains how a human resource manager can incorporate the ideas that were responsible for the inception of the company and its continued operations (Boyer, 2013). In this regard, the human resource manager can also play ...