Human Resource Management

Today, more than ever, Human Resources play a significant part in the day to day of running a business.

Most small businesses simply can’t afford to employ a full-time, dedicated HR manager. However, Next Move can help you with this vitally important part of your business.

We believe that Human Resource Management is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets – the people working for you who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of your business.

Simply put, employing people, developing their capacities, utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational requirement.

Today, more than ever, Human Resources play a significant part in the day to day of running a business.

  • Employee relations (handling employee rights, contracts and complaints)
  • Employment legislation
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Performance appraisal
  • Compensation, including pay and benefits
  • Consultancy
  • Health and safety
  • Training and development
  • Organisational management
  • Personnel management
  • Industrial management

At Next Move, we believe that Human Resource Management should be seen as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach.

This forces you to express your goals with specificity, so they can be understood and undertaken by your employees. It also provides the resources needed for your employees to successfully accomplish their assignments. As such, HRM techniques, when properly practiced, are expressive of the goals and operating practices of your overall business. HRM is also seen by many to have a key role in risk reduction within organisations.

Another key objective of HRM is to help an organisation to attract and maintain employees, and also to manage them effectively. The key word here perhaps is “fit”.

Over 80% of employees that leave a business within the first three months of commencement quote “Poor Fit” as the reason for departure.

The implementation of an HR strategy is not always required, and may depend on a number of factors – namely the size of your business, the culture within your business, the industry that you operate in, and also the people who work for you.

But if you need help with HR, your first port of call should be Next Move.

“Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.”