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Human Resources Functions

Human Resources Functions

Human Resources Functions
Human resources function is responsible for attracting, developing, and maintaining the firm’s workforce. Human resources information systems support activities, such as identifying potential employees, maintaining complete records on existing employees, and creating programs to develop employees’ talents and skills.
2.1.2. Management Functions
It should be noted that the value of any information is derived from the actions that management takes as a result of using that information. It follows that information specialists need to know what type of tasks and functions management have to perform so that they are able to produce relevant and usable information.
The functions of management can be grouped into five areas: planning; decision making; organization and co-coordinating; leadership and motivation and control. Obviously, the emphasis given to each area varies from manager to manager and is especially dependent on the level of the manager in the organization.
There are clear differences in information requirements between a manager at the operational or transactional level, such as transport supervisor, and a manager at the tactical level, such as accounts or sales manager, or at the strategic level, such as managing director/board of directors. At the highest (strategic) level, structured, formal MIS may actually be counter-productive, for at these levels informal MIS and external influences become increasingly important.
2.3. Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom

  1. Data
    Data is raw facts and figures.
    Data is the product of symbols or representations of an event or facts about the world, like number, letter, pictures, lines graphs, etc
    Data processing by computers refers to the transfer of facts from one medium to another. E.g., printing list of students for registration.
    Data represents facts or figures obtained from experiments or surveys, used as basis for making calculations or drawing conclusions
    In and of itself, data has no meaning. If I count the number of cars that stop at the