The human resources department handles many necessary functions of your business. It is instrumental in providing labor law compliance, record keeping, hiring and training, compensation, relational ...

While payroll deals with compensating employees, human resources takes care of employee relations. Although the two departments have distinct roles in an organization, they also share functions that ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

As a business grows, the pressure builds for HR managers to accommodate individual needs. Trying to handle all the pressures of job descriptions, employment law, new employees, performance reviews, ...

For business to grow and thrive in today's competitive environment, organizations must deal with several challenges. First of all, they must provide "value". Traditionally, the concept of value has ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

It is believed that the first human resources department was established by The National Cash Register Company in 1901 following a bitter strike. Then referred to as “personnel,” the new department’s ...

Should the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion function be together or separated from the Human Resources function? During some interesting dialogue with some fellow HR professionals, we began to debate ...