Job Description
An HR (human resources) function in an organization is responsible for ensuring that a workforce can perform optimally, ensuring that sufficient people are recruited, retained, trained, and supported to fulfill the organization’s goals and commitments. As such, HR’s remit includes health and safety, recruitment, training, payroll, and more. An HR officer (also known as an HR adviser) can be a generalist, who carries out a broad range of duties, or a specialist, who focuses on a particular area. Specialisms include employee relations, careers coaching, health and safety, and headhunting. HR generalists are more common in small organizations while larger companies may hire specialists to take on one of these responsibilities as their entire role. In very small organizations, HR tasks may be split between several people who also work on other tasks.
