Job description of HR Manager

Job Title: HR Manager

Job identification:
Human resource (HR) managers are involved with recruitment, training, career development,
compensation and benefits, employee relations, industrial relations, employment law, compliance,
disciplinary and grievance issues, redundancies etc. The job involves keeping up to date with areas such
as employment law, which change often.

Job summary:
Develops policy and directs and coordinates human resources activities, such as employment,
compensation, labor relations, benefits, training, and employee services by performing the following
duties.

Responsibilities and duties:

Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all
positions.

Maintains organization staff by establishing a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program;

counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews;
recommending changes.

Prepares employees for assignments by establishing and conducting orientation and training
programs.

Maintains a pay plan by conducting periodic pay surveys; scheduling and conducting job
evaluations; preparing pay budgets; monitoring and scheduling individual pay actions;
recommending, planning, and implementing pay structure revisions.

Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers
to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees;
hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors.

Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and
assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management;
directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids;
awarding benefit contracts; designing and conducting educational programs on benefit
programs.

Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource

federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records; representing
the organization at hearings.

Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human

resource policies and procedures.

Maintains historical human resource records by designing a filing and retrieval system;
keeping past and current records.

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops;

reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in
professional societies.

Completes human resource operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees;

following up on work results.

Maintains human resource staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.

Maintains human resource staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees;
planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Working conditions:

Travel: not a normal part of the working day but attendance at off-site meetings possible.

Working hours: mainly office hours, with occasional extra hours. Location: opportunities
exist mainly in towns or cities throughout the country.

Opportunities for self-employment: unlikely (unless a specialist in training).

 Job specification:
Skills:

Good communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Business awareness and commercial focus

Leadership and strong management skills

Technically competent

Strong interpersonal skills

Ability to analyze, interpret and explain the legal framework regulating employment

Influencing and negotiating skills

Personally credible

Integrity and approachability.

Knowledge:

Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel
recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation,
and personnel information systems.

Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles

involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership
technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language
including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing
customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality
standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents,
government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Sociology and Anthropology - Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends
and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins

Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic

equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Education:
A bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree may be necessary for some high-level
positions.

Abilities:

Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and
sentences.

Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Speak clearly so others can understand you.

Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the
problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a

relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as
speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).

Concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.