Introduction

The greatest asset of any organization is human resource. Many organizations describe Human Resource Management as a combination of administrative personnel functions with performance management, Employee Relations and resource planning. More commonly HR is the department that deals with hiring, firing, training, and other personnel issues.

The main objective of Human Resources is to ensure the maximum return on the investment that an organization has made in its human capital and minimize risk. It is the foremost responsibility of human resource manager to conduct these activities in an effective, legal, fair, and consistent manner. Human resource management deals in following areas of an organization:

	Recruitment Strategy & Planning
	Recruitment Processes
	Selection Process
	Enrichment, Training and Development
	Performance Evaluation and Management
	Promotions
	Industrial and Employee Relations
	Record keeping of all personal data.
	Compensation, pensions, bonuses etc in liaison with Payroll
	Confidential advice to internal 'customers' in relation to problems at work.
	Career development

Potential Careers

H.R. Managers are in great demand in today's world in all small and large-scale industry, government & semi-government, private & co-operative fields, etc. Also there are wide openings in Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled Services, BPOs, etc. This course will be very beneficial to students in enhancement of their HR skills as well as to their recruitment as HR managers.