4.1 Role of Human resource management

Question 1

What is Human Resource Management?

Answer 1

Process of managing staff within an organisation, focus on relation between employer and employee and how to achieve individual goal and business goal.

Question 2

What is the strategic role of HRM?

Answer 2

• Business determine if employee have skills to achieve goals, if not do training and development. Business need to retain hired employee and ensure they work consistently and provide appropriate performance review.

Question 3

Why some business outsource HR function (Benefit of outsource HR function)?

Answer 3

• Access to specialised HR management staff, provide/ advise business the most appropriate HR strategies as their expertise
• Allow manager to focus on core business such as production, and customer and leave HR management handled my an oursourced business
• Can be cost saving

Question 4

What is some issues (disadvantages ) of outsourcing HR function?

Answer 4

• Outsourced companies may lack the understanding of the key aspect of business such as business culture and workplace conflict issues.
• Business must maintain good employee management practice despite that is responsible for the out sourced HR.

Question 5

What is a contract for service?

Answer 5

• Employment not ongoing , in fixed time with agreed payment and paid to independent contractors

Question 6

What is a contract of service?

Answer 6

• Employee offer his or her service to an organisation on regular basis.

Question 7

Why do Australian businesses contract foreign business for ready - made workforce?

Answer 7

• So they can access to labour without having to consider issues such as minimum labour requirements, occupation health and safety law.