human resources management
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INTRODUCTION
When entrepreneurs and business executives develop a business plan, they recognize that a great line of products or services helps a co...
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita taught many businesses on the Gulf Coast a valuable lesson about the ability of management to plan for every contingency -- it cannot. What managers can do is learn from tragedy when it strikes and try to be better prepared the next time. This article examines crisis management from a human resource perspective and offer insights into how to minimize losses and disruption should disaster occur. HR managers' centralized location for employee relations, and expertise in communications, writing human resource policies and procedures, and employee training and development offers them the opportunity to make valuable contributions in crisis management planning and implementation. Through lessons learned from these recent storms, the article offers specific recomme...
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Alvin A. Schall, Washington, D.C., argued, for appellant.
Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director and Alexander Younger...
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Staffing decisions are among the most important decisions that nonprofit organizations make. Just as businesses and organizations of all sizes...
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The human resources (HR) function within organizations has expanded beyond administrative and operational roles to include more strategic responsibilities. This change is requiring HR practitioners to take on new types of responsibilities in the area of organizational development-responsibilities that include redesigning jobs and work, developing performance management systems, managing change, and designing and restructuring organizations. Four strategies for integrating human resources management (HRM) and organizational development (OD)-job analysis, work redesign, team-building, and change management-are presented in this article along with recommendations on how to integrate HRM and OD to enhance the performance and capacity of the organization and its workforce.
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