Human resources are the people that staff and operate an organisation. It applies to the workforce managed by any employer. A business of any size needs employees in order for it to run. As the most important asset of any organization, employees need to be properly managed in order for optimal efficacy to be achieved.
People are hired to use their use their talents for particular purposes and to take specific responsibility within the organization. An organization would employ people because they have the skills, knowledge, energy, initiative and the capacity to learn and develop. This being the case therefore, the manager should aim to attract and retain the number of people required with the appropriate skills, expertise and competence.
Thus human resource cannot be measured by the number of people in the organisation because its true strength lies in the skills and talents available which enhance organisational efficiency.
The manager has no control of the employee skills and talents. The employee can and do control and limit their effort levels. When the employee is hired what the manager get is their productive potential. The manager has to ensure that the worker productive potential is converted into desired levels of actual productive effort.
It is essential therefore to achieve a good fit between the worker and the job. Managers should see to it that the employees working in the jobs are suitable for them and their jobs are designed with due regard to their abilities and limitations.
The manager needs to offer positive incentives to ensure that the worker cooperate with management and use their job knowledge and initiatives to maintain and improve efficiency.
The manager should aim to obtain the intangibles from the emp ...