The process is sequential because employees can’t be trained and paid until selected and placed in jobs, which follows recruitment, which is preceded by human resource planning and job analysis and design. Human resource (HR) management is the process of hiring, developing, motivating, and evaluating employees to achieve organizational goals.

HR practices and systems comprise the firm’s human resource decision support system that is intended to make employees a key element for gaining competitive advantage. To this end, the HR management process contains the following sequenced activities

competitive advantage — A set of unique features of an organization that are perceived by customers and potential customers as significant and superior to the competition. process — sequential because employees can’t be trained and paid until selected and placed in jobs, which follows recruitment, which is preceded by human resource planning and job. human resource (HR) management — The process of hiring, developing, motivating, and evaluating employees to achieve organizational goals. recruitment — The attempt to find and attract qualified applicants in the external labor market.

Be able to define human resource management; distinguish between job analysis, job description, and the job specification; describe the human resource management process.