Some Knowledge about Human Resources Management The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and the key them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing (31) performance issues, and ensuring that your personnel and management practices conform (32) various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach (33) employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) have to carry out these activities themselves because they can't yet afford part-time or full-time help. (34) they should always ensure that employees have and are aware (35) personnel policies which conform. to current regulations. These policies are often in the (36) of employee manuals, which all employees have. Note (37) some people distinguish a difference between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development). Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes a broader (38) of activities to develop personnel inside of organisations, including career development, training, organisation development, etc. There is a long-standing argument about where HR-related functions should be organised over large organisations. The HRM function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change (39) the past 20-30 years. Many years ago, large organisations looked to the Personnel Department, mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. More recently, organisations consider the HR Department (40) playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organisation are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner. (31)