TOPIC 4: HUMAN RESOURCES

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
  4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of businesses outsourcing the human resource function in the global market.  Again, try not to only rely on the articles but also think for yourself.
The above is also in a worksheet format.
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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