What is Human Resource Management?
People are organizations’ single-most valuable asset. As a function, human resource management (HRM) is responsible for overseeing firms’ employees and developing smart organizational systems that enable them to do great things. Human resource departments serve as stewards over all elements of the employee life cycle, including hiring, onboarding, developing, engaging, and retaining the right people to achieve strategic goals. BYU Marriott HRM majors combine their knowledge of organizational behavior, human resource practices, data analytics, change management, business strategy, and Christlike leadership to create workplaces and cultures where employees can thrive while making meaningful contributions to the world.
Careers in Human Resource Management
A human resource professional’s main focus is to recruit, develop, engage and retain the employees of an organization. They maximize an organization’s use of talent by finding and hiring capable employees and providing them with opportunities to learn and improve. As the bridge between managers and employees, they work to maintain positive employee relations and improve employee experience and performance. They also oversee employee compensation and benefits and design operations and systems needed to support the people functions of the organization. Professionals may also focus their efforts on the organization as a whole by consulting with upper-level managers to implement changes to leadership or to an organization’s structure, strategy, or culture.
Graduates typically begin their careers in general roles that support all HR functions or specialist roles that focus on a single function, such as recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, people operations, total rewards, employee relations, etc. Other opportunities pursued by our graduates include human capital consulting and university-level academic careers.