Description
Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.
- • Administer compensation, benefits, and performance management systems, and safety and recreation programs.
- • Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview, and select applicants.
- • Allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel.
- • Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion, and employee benefits.
- • Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.
- • Advise managers on organizational policy matters, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes.
- • Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- • Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
- • Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
- • Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.
- • Analyze training needs to design employee development, language training, and health and safety programs.
- • Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.
- • Analyze statistical data and reports to identify and determine causes of personnel problems and develop recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.
- • Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate the personnel, training, or labor relations activities of an organization.
- • Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.
- • Investigate and report on industrial accidents for insurance carriers.
- • Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
- • Negotiate bargaining agreements and help interpret labor contracts.
- • Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs.
- • Prepare and follow budgets for personnel operations.
- • Develop, administer, and evaluate applicant tests.
- • Oversee the evaluation, classification, and rating of occupations and job positions.
- • Study legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends.
- • Develop or administer special projects in areas such as pay equity, savings bond programs, day care, and employee awards.
- • Provide terminated employees with outplacement or relocation assistance.
- • Contract with vendors to provide employee services, such as food service, transportation, or relocation service.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
