The Human Resource Department

In small organizations, line managers may carry out all these personnel duties unassisted. But as the organization grows, line managers usually need the assistance, specialized knowledge, and advice of a separate human resource staff. In larger firms, the human resource department provides this specialized assistance.

Typical positions include compensation and benefits manager, employment and recruiting supervisor, training specialist, and employee relations executive. In practice, HR and line managers share responsibility for most human resource activities. For example, human resource and line managers typically share responsibility for skills training.

Thus the supervisor might describe what training she thinks the new employee needs, HR might design the training, and the supervisor might then provide on-the-job training. However, what HR departments do and how they do it are changing. Because of this, many employers are taking a new look at how they organize their human resource functions.

You may also find specialized corporate HR teams within a company. These assist top management in top-level issues such as developing the personnel aspects of the company’s long-term strategic plan. Embedded HR teams have HR generalists assigned to functional departments like sales and production. They provide the employee selection and other assistance the departments need. Centers of expertise are basically specialized HR consulting firms within the company.

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