The Merits of Human Resources Studies
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

In the dog-eat-dog world of business, companies are always looking for new ways to improve themselves. This implies learning new strategies and working systems that are implemented as painlessly as possible. This is usually facilitated through the HR department in conjunction with the upper echelon of a company. Employee management and human resources have come a long way since the late seventies. While HR departments work to better the working environment and the means by which seemingly invisible owners and top managers dole out their responsibilities, human resources studies has learned from this and improved upon it through the years.

In the past, human resources studies have concentrated on four major aspects. These are time and labor administration, HR management, payroll, and benefits administration. With the wide-spread use of computers, human resources studies have shown how each of these four aspects can be improved by way of the internet and electronic filing systems.

Time and labor administration involves the use of new technologies to save time and energy in daily administrative tasks such as information gathering –both of employees and of primary business objectives, labor distribution, and cost accounting possibilities in relation to organizational procedures.

Human resources studies posit the second major aspect as being HR management. This replaces unnecessary paperwork which is both more time consuming and costly, and focuses on computer and internet-based communication, including manifests and executive memos. Further, data such as personnel change on an inter-departmental basis, travel expenses and reimbursement and the like can be streamlined to better suit everyone.

Payroll is fairly standard in that, through the technological changes recommended via human resources studies, transaction time is reduced, along with human interaction lest a problem occur (of course, this invariably will happen, but through improved technological features and systems, the need for this will be reduced drastically).

Benefits administration is also fairly straightforward. With the implementation of new technological systems, human resources studies have found that employees and retired employees are able to receive their health insurance, monthly pensions, and similar workings in a more timely manner, thus improving the overall reputation of a given business.

Time has shown that human resources studies have a positive overall effect on companies that send their employees for training. HR representatives come back more energetic and with working ideas that they are eager to put into effect. This vitality then is transferred to the other employees themselves from interaction with the reps, as well as the actualization of new systems, ideas, and technologies. Further, by having time opened up for them the HR reps have more time for other administrative activities as well as aiding management in business strategies where applicable, thus culminating in overall improvement of the business.

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