Discuss the six important functional areas of human resource management.

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The six important functional areas of human resource management are job analysis/design, recruitment/selection, training and development, performance management, pay structure/incentives/benefits, and labor-employee relations.

 1. Job analysis is the process of getting detailed information about jobs. Job design addresses which tasks should be grouped into a particular job.
 2. Recruitment is the process through which the organization seeks applicants for potential employment. Selection is the process by which it attempts to identify applicants with the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that will help the company achieve its goals.
 3. Training is a planned effort to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge, skills, and behavior by employees. Development involves acquiring knowledge, skills, and behavior that improve employees' ability to meet the challenges of a variety of existing jobs or jobs that do not yet exist.
 4. Performance management is used to ensure that employee' activities and outcomes are congruent with the organization's objectives.
 5. Pay structures/incentives/benefits help a company elicit specific activities and levels of performance from employees.
 6. The approach a company takes toward its labor-employee relations results in it achieving its short-and long-term goals or ceasing to exist.