Human Resource Interview

* Human resource management= the management function focused on maximizing the effectiveness of the workforce by recruiting world-class talent, promoting career development and determining workforce strategies to boost organizational effectiveness

The past couple semesters we have focused on theories, techniques, role-plays, etc. However, I think learning more about the human services profession as a whole is extremely beneficial. For this assignment, I conducted an interview with a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) named Joshua Feinberg at Chestnut Ridge Hospital. Joshua has been working as a social worker for four years. He enjoys the counseling aspect more than anything as being a social worker. At Chestnut Ridge Hospital, LICSW are technically called a “Clinical Therapist”. They are called clinical therapists because they mostly do counseling at this facility. During the course of the interview, the questions focused on the professional roles, positives, negatives,

What was one of the hardest things you’ve ever had to do in your position?

We analyzed transcripts from semi-structured interview data originally conducted with human service professionals for a different purpose, that of describing their work in human services in an urban, multicultural environment. In an earlier study, we interviewed 77 frontline and administrative human service professionals across the United States who performed case management roles and responsibilities (Woodside & McClam, 2007). We used convenience sampling to identify agencies and staff to interview. Personal contacts, resource guides, and the Internet facilitated the identification. We then contacted the agency directors to arrange interviews with their staff. All of those interviewed performed the case management role. Interviews occurred

Human resource management is part of the human resource approach, which is evidently geared to allow organizations to benefit in two significant ways: increasing in the organization’s effectiveness and satisfying all of the employee’s needs. Organizational goals and

Human resource management refers to the management of the tasks involved in human or personnel matters in the management process. Human resource management includes: job analysis; development of human needs planning and recruitment; training and development; compensation and welfare management, performance evaluation; labor relations management.

The term human resource is defined as a system of activities and strategies that focus on successfully managing employees at all levels of the organization to achieve organizational goal (Niles, 2013). Human resource management is the process of proper use of available limited skilled workforce. The main purpose of the human resource management is to make efficient use of existing human resource in the organization.

I had two interviews with members of the HR department at Community Health Plan of Washington. One with Lesley Duncan, Human Resource Analyst and another with Rachel Matz HR Coordinator. While both of these members work in HR in the same department, they do vastly different jobs with different duties. Lesley’s job is more tied to finding what the employees want as well as directly helping employees by educating them about their benefits. While Rachel focuses on training HR department on how to answer those questions.

Sarah Cox is my interviewee; the interview was conducted on the fly with a phone call due to her busy schedule. Sarah has been in her current role as the Vice President of Human Resources for eight months now at L.L. Bean. She started out at the company as a summer hire right before attending graduate school at Harvard University’s divinity school to study Organizational Ethics. I came into contact with Sarah while attending The State of New Hampshire’s PBL/FBLA conference where she was the keynote guest speaker and she shared her email with the students attending and opened the door to connect with her. I felt this was a good opportunity to learn more about L. L. Bean and the field of human resources. So, a few days after

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the terminology used to illustrate formal systems devised for the management of people within an organization. It is the method of managing an organization or company that is directly related to the employees of that particular organization. The success of a business often rely heavily on the performance of managing human resource. Maximizing the desires and benefits of an organization and helping a business grow by rewarding employees to help motivate and push them in their performance is one of the main aim of HRM. By doing this, it will have a positive impact on both the company and it’s entire organization.

Human resource management is the process of utilizing human resource efficiently and effectively to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. Human resource is the most important resource of an organization compared to other resources since the success of the organization mainly depends on its people. Human resource management is a part of the process that helps the organization to achieve its objectives once the general direction strategies have been established, the next stage is to formulate company’s objectives and develop them into action plans. The objectives cannot be attended without the resources which of course include people. Human resources management should be part of the process which determines what people are required, how to use them, how to get them and how to manage them. This should be fully integrated with all other management processes. Human resource management is giving fully support to how

Human Resource Management is designing management systems to ensure that human talent is used effectively and efficiently to accomplish organizational goals (Mathis & Jackson, 2008). To that end, Human Resource

According to Decenzo and Robbins (1994), “Human Resource Management is a process of procuring, developing and maintaining the performance level of the employees to achieve the organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner”. The HRM practices of recruiting and selecting employees, training them for their job, evaluating their

As all we may know, Human Resource Management is focus on PEOPLE in an organization. More productive employees tend the organization to be more successful. The goal of Human Resource Management is make the organization effective.

Human resources are, debatably, the most essential asset of the organization. Human resource management is defined as a coherent way of people that individually or as a group participate to achieve company’s goals and objectives. Armstrong (2014).