Human Resource Management Objectives

What is a Human Resource Management Objective?

• A specific goal or target relating to the human resource management of a business

  • S: specific

  • M: Measurable

  • A: Attainable

  • R: Relevant

  • T: Time-bound

Human Resource Management has lots of parts:

• Recruitment and selection

• Training

• Talent development

• Employee engagement and involvement

• Motivating and rewarding employees

• Managing diversity

• Developing corporate culture

Key Human Resource Objectives:

• Employee engagement and involvement:

  • Maximise reported levels of engagement

  • The extent of satisfactorily completed appraisals

• Talent development:

  • Investment (level) in employee training

  • Staff retention rates

  • Percentage of job vacancies filled by internal candidates

• Training:

  • Spend in total and per employee on training

  • Measures of training effectiveness

• Diversity:

  • Diversity in senior management positions (gender, experience, ethnicity etc)

  • Diversity in external recruitment (gender, ethnicity etc)

• Alignment of values:

  • Recruitment and induction training; extent focused on core values

  • Employee awareness of core values

• Number, skills and location of employees:

  • Labour turnover

  • Staff retention

  • Recruitment target

  • Training budgets