TOPIC 4: HUMAN RESOURCES

Role

Influences

Processes

Strategies

Effectiveness

Role of Human Resource Management

• strategic role of human resources 
• interdependence with other key business functions 
• outsourcing
- human resource functions
- using contractors - domestic, global 

Strategic role

1. Read about the Strategic Role of Human Resource Managers (Chron)
2. Summarise the strategic role of human resources.

Interdependence with other key business functions

READ: The Relationship Between Marketing and Human Resources (Chron)
TASK: Summarise the article and come up with the ways HR links with Finance and Operations.  Then put these links in a drawing/diagram of the interdependence of HR with the other KBFs.  

Outsourcing

Definition: The practice of having certain job functions done outside a company instead of having an in-house department or employee handle them; functions can be outsourced to either a company or an individual. 
(Entrepreneur Small Business Encyclopaedia, Outsourcing, http://www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/term/82610.html [accessed 20 November 2011])

READ:

1. When the HR Office Leaves the Building 
2. Use of project contractors skyrocket
3. The advantages of outsourcing HR functions and The disadvantages of outsourcing HR functions

TASK:

1. Create a table outlining the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing the human resource function.​
2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of businesses outsourcing the human resource function in the global market.  Try not to only rely on the articles but also think for yourself.

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​The above is also in a worksheet format.

HR Influences