Essay - An Organization's Most Valuable Assets are Its Human Resources; Without...

An organization's most valuable assets are its human resources; without personnel no company could survive. From upper-level management to interns, ***** resources are the heart, soul, and backbone of any business. Therefore, good human resource ***** is necessary for ***** full functioning of any comp*****, large or small. Human ***** can be handled differently in different organizations, depending on their type, ***** philosophy, and their size. Companies that h*****le human resources well have happy employees and low turnover rates compared with companies that do not. *****, good human resource management can save a company time ***** money.

***** have worked for several different organizations, from relatively ***** ones like national department stores to small ***** that are run out of the owner's basement. In the large retailer, human resources was a huge, multi-staffed department. Human resources were handled bureaucratically, with lots of paperwork to process and a hierarchical chain in the ***** resources office. There are definite pros and cons ***** such an approach to human resources. On the one hand, large companies have to be highly organized with regards to their personnel. New employees might need to receive special training. Each new applicant has ***** ***** properly screened. During the job application process, people sometimes have to take written exams to qualify for certain positions, and in some cases, the ***** demanded drug tests. The process involved many forms, each of which had to be ***** filed, and their data put into computer databases for company records. Human resources worked closely with accounts payable, for the purposes ***** compiling accurate payroll *****. Most large organizations need to per*****m their ***** resources ***** with such hierarchies in place *****cause there ***** simply *****o many employees working at the company at any one time to have a more person*****l *****. This is not ***** say ***** human resources management personnel are not friendly, because in most ***** *****y were.

***** small company for which I worked ***** a completely different approach to ***** resources. As a one-person shop with only five employees, the owner of the company performed all the human resources *****. The ***** system ***** disorganized but adequate to meet the needs ***** his organization. With only five people ***** manage and pay, ***** was no need for ***** types of formal paperwork that larger *****s ********** to function smoothly. The owner ***** keep track ***** the names of all his employees, and with the aid of easy-to-use ***** softw***** programs, had ***** personal information (date of birth, Social Security number, ***** address) input alongside *****ir year-to-date earnings. Moreover, the ***** resources "department" was integrated seamlessly into its related divisions within the organization, such as accounts **********. There w***** no need for extraneous *****. Small businesses naturally have a more person*****l approach to human resources, and ***** have noticed that in many cases, the one-person approach is more effective and efficient.

In a multi-person, multi-function human resources division, mistakes are more regular and occasionally ***** devastating. For example, one