Human Resources Management: Functions and Benefits

This article explains the functions and benefits of Human Resources Management in organizations. It covers staffing needs, compensation, benefits, performance appraisal, law compliance, and more. It also discusses how organizations can benefit from HR management concepts and strategies.

Q1:
What Human Resources Management is?
Human Resources is the function in an organization that deals with the people and issues
related to people such as compensation and benefits, recruiting and hiring employees,
onboarding employees, performance management, training, and organization development and
culture.
The purpose of human resources departments is to manage the numerous needs of
company employees. From financial to legal matters, human resources departments help in
maximizing the efficiency of an organization
Human Resources Department Functions:
 Staffing Needs
Human resources departments are mainly known for their responsibility of recruiting
employees. This includes creating position announcements which involve identifying job
duties and determining the skill level and requirements that are needed for a position.
Regarding my current company, they are recruiting upon types of project what manpower
resources are requesting if not available at the same time.
That is happened with me while I had joined the currently company as construction manager
in new company project because I had been worked at the same project three years ago,
therefore company had selected me as I have great experiences in the same project.
 Compensation
Fair payment is a huge concern for employees. Human resources department personnel
evaluate and make changes to an organization’s pay structure by researching compensation
trends with the aim of providing employees with industry-acceptable pay.
In the old company, there were no any compensation and benefits even the result of
appraisals were satisfactory, therefore I haven’t continued on it the I had transferred to the
current company.
 Benefits
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Developing and effectively administrating an employee benefits program is a great
recruitment and retention tool that organizations use. Common benefits of a job include
health insurance, dental insurance, and a retirement plan.
Human resources personnel must research and analyze information to obtain the best
packages for these benefits which should provide adequate coverage for employees while
minimizing the costs for the employer.
 Performance Appraisal
Human resources departments work in conjunction with individual department managers to
evaluate employee performance.
This department is responsible for creating the entire performance appraisal process. This
process frequently occurs annually for many organizations.
Company conducts yearly appraisal to evaluate all employees upon objective goals and
competencies.
 Law Compliance
Companies are responsible for the safety and equitable treatment of their employees.
Laws exist to protect employees in a variety of areas.
A properly run human resources department finds a way to balance the needs of the
employer and the employees.
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How can your Organization benefits from
Human Resources Management concepts and
strategies?
A human resource that is successful requires many pieces of the company, involving the
administration of safety and health and the organizational culture.
 Organizational culture
Establishing company standards, procedures, and guidelines allows the employees to know
and learn acceptable behaviors and practices at workplace premises.
A policy may be in place stating that punctuality if vital within the firm to promote time
management skills among employees.
 Planning for change
It the sole responsibility of the human resource development team to help the company to
stabilize the firm for continuous change.
Planning for change involves helping employees understand their functions by considering the
perspective of the firm.
 Training and development
This procedure will ensure that all employees are on the same wavelength. The human
resource management system takes the responsibility of the ongoing employee development.
This continuous education keeps the skills of employees up to date for them to bring modern
and original ideas to the firm.
 Management of conflicts
The human resource team will bear the role of the mediator or counsellor to sort these
differences effectively. They take the right course of action to ensure that nothing gets out of
hand.
 Health and safety
The Human resource management system plays the role of safety and health in the workplace.
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 Recruitment and retention
Acquiring qualified employees, retaining them in the company, giving them the right training to
complete their jobs and encouraging them to further their education, skills, and awarding them
with compensation and benefits will drive your organization to success.
 Development of good relations
The human resource department has the basic function of ensuring that it grows good working
relations among employees.
Q2:
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Job
Description
Construction Manager Project Engineer
Job title Construction Manager Project Engineer
Department Operation Dept. Operation Dept.
Details in
workgroup
*has a long history of construction
high rise buildings, award-winning
building, and unwavering
commitment to client satisfaction.
*He / she will be expected to ensure
compliance with All procedures,
regulations, and codes, and present
progress updates to appropriate
management channels on a regular
basis.
*has a good experience in
construction field.
*He/she will be expected to ensure
the execution works in sequences
and compliance with approved
drawings upon Local codes and
project specifications and regular
basis.
Objective of the
work
*Liaise between technical, QC,
planning, procurement, cost and HSE
engineers/Depts., and others working
on the project.
* Prepare and manage estimates,
budgets, timetables, and resources.
* Adhere to legal regulations, green
building, sustainability and safety
codes, and other requirements.
*provide direction to subcontractors,
and vendors ensuring quality
standards are met
*Determine project specifications and
acquire the necessary materials for
completion.
* Identify project responsibilities,
delegating phases and elements to
the appropriate site team.
*Develop and control the full project-
plan lifecycle
Duties and
Responsibilities
Creates and reviews Requests for
Information / Requests for Proposal
and Change Orders.
Ensures that the project is
constructed and documented in
accordance with the contract
documents and project specifications
Develops project objectives by
reviewing approved project shop
drawings, and approved materials
upon project specifications.
Determines project responsibilities by
identifying project phases, assigning
the site team duties in phases upon
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to ensure that All executive works
have completed successfully.
Provides technical / constructive
supports to Project Managers to
ensure the construction works are
moving on.
Develops and maintains project
cost/change controls, and project
budget to get project profit in place.
Performs change order estimating
and assists the Project Manager in
change order negotiations.
Coordinates and monitors schedule
updates, invoices, and submittals to
ensure that All on proper tracks within
project time frame/budgets.
Assists in managing and reviewing
the progress of contractors’
construction schedules to assist them
are on project track and resolving any
obstructions.
Reviews weekly and monthly reports
on the status and progress (KPI) of
the contracts, including project costs
and potential changes.
Reports the status of projects to
project managers.
Attend client program meetings as
needed.
*Review the safety reports and
controlling All near-mis and incidents
and ensure that All site workers are
inducting toolbox and high-risk
potentials training to ensure that site
team are working safely with Zero
incidents.
the approved construction
methodology.
Maintains project schedule by
monitoring project progress,
coordinating activities, and resolving
problems to ensure that All works
move on / ahead.
Controls project costs by approving
expenditures and administering
contractor contracts.
Prepares project status reports by
collecting, analyzing, and
summarizing information and reports
to construction & project managers.
Maintains safe and clean working
areas by enforcing procedures, rules,
and regulations.
Maintains project data base.
Maintains product and company
reputation by complying with federal
and state regulations.
Contributes to team effort by
accomplishing related results as
needed.
Attend weekly site walk with All
subcontractors to ensure work
progress on track.
*Controlling All machineries on site
upon site needs and have a
mobilization / demobilization plans
upon project cost.
*Report any near-miss and incidents
to HSE team.
Work Hours &
Benefits
*24 working days per month - with
8hrs working hours per day.
*24 working days per month – with
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*Two Saturday off per month in
rotation with swapping of operation
team.
*company provides 30 days’ vacation
days per year.
*company covers 21 days’ sick leave.
*medical insurance to you and family
members.
*Family airline return tickets to your
home after completion 11 months.
8hrs working hours per day.
*Two Saturday off per month in
rotation with swapping of operation
team.
*company provides 30 days’ vacation
days per year.
*company covers 21 days’ sick leave.
*medical insurance to you and family
members.
*Family airline return tickets to your
home after completion 11 months.
Salary + bonus In Range Bet. 25,000 to 30,000 L.E
Basic salary 50% of total salary.
20% home allowances.
15 % transportation allowances.
15% food allowances.
Company provides yearly bonus
upon performing and appraisal
reports.
In Range Bet. 15,000 to 20,000 L.E
Basic salary 50% of total salary.
20% home allowances.
15 % transportation allowances.
15% food allowances.
Company provides yearly bonus
upon performing and appraisal
reports.
Other Benefits *company participate 50% off
education courses after completion
one year in company.
*company participate 50% off if you
are joining health club (GYM).
*company participate 50% off
education courses after completion
one year in company.
*company participate 50% off if you
are joining health club (GYM).
Work
environmental
*company allocates all staffing in
projects on site as needs and other
countries in Gulf & Egypt as well.
*company allocates all staffing in
projects on site as needs and other
countries Gulf & Egypt as well.
Reported to
whom
You are requesting to report directly
to Project Manager.
You are requesting to report directly
to construction Manager.
Employee
specifications
Construction Manager Project Engineer
Qualifications Bachelor or Master of Science in Civil
Engineering or Construction
Management.
10+ years of project experience
Bachelor of Civil or Architecture
Engineering or Construction
Management
5+ years of project experience
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working in the construction industry
required.
Experience with large manufacturing
facilities construction sites.
Certified Professional Project
Management PMP (Preferred).
working in the construction industry
required.
Experience with large manufacturing
facilities construction sites.
Certified Professional Project
Management PMP (Preferred).
Skills Proficient with MS Office Suite,
exposure to schedule software,
preferably Primavera (P6) preferred
Good knowledge in high raise
construction buildings (concrete and
steel structures).
Good Knowledge in SAP program
(preferred).
Proficient with MS Office Suite,
exposure to schedule software,
preferably Primavera (P6) preferred.
Good knowledge in high raise
construction buildings.
Personality Team-worker, Strong personal as
Leader, hard worker and honest.
Team-worker, hard worker and
honest.
Age +35 years old >= 30 years old
Training
Courses
1-Safety Training: i.e. Occupational Safety and Health Administration-OSHA
that to have a strong staff to operate the workplace in save mode and
avoidance any hazard risk and injury’s cases which it might goes to fatality
cases (God forbid).
The above snapshot that shows the safety training courses which conducted
by third party via my current company “ASGC – Dubai & Egypt”
2- Qualify Training: referred to high standard of quality such as ISO 14001
and ISO 45001 to enhance and improve the quality of work and avoidance
such abortive works which it affects the time and cost.
A part of my current company, we have a site walk twice a month to ensure
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and indicate the level of quality of work upon the company standard following
by green building regulations and list the abortive work to overcomes in
upcoming works.
3- Team Training: it is to enhance communication, making the workplace
more enjoyable, motivating a team, getting to know each other, improving
team productivity.
4- Managerial Training: enables managers to learn skills such as delegation,
coaching, and giving feedback.
Our managers have given the opportunities of delegation while he was on
vacation to be able to reach to the same level.
5- Soft Skills Training: it is referred to personality traits, social,
communication, and personal.
Apart of my current company, we have training yearly how to treat your
personal traits.
Q3:
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Item Strategy
Health I listed below my current company’s health advantage:
- Company fully covers well medical insurance cards to All employees
and their families, not limited to only internal clinics, and it should
cover all critical medical cases.
- Company 80% covers the dental and eye clinic.
- Company accepts the reimbursement payment in case of the
hospitals were not listed in insurance company prior to refund to
employee.
- Company well checkup All labors and staff in daily basis while Covid-
19 affected and in regular basis before Covid-19
One of previous company ONLY the applied insurance card for internal clinic
hospitals
Safety I listed below my current company’s safety as high standard:
- Company provides save pedestrian access egress and escape fire
route well for all staff at offices and all workers at workplace to gather
themselves in assigned assembly point.
- Company posts an evacuation plan in all offices and workplace to
guide all employees and workers to save access egress while any
fire or earthquake or any incident might happen and conduct a fire
drill to all employees regularly.
- Company provides PPE dresses to all staff at workplace such as
“helmet, goggle, gloves, visible vest and safety shoes”.
- Company trained well all flagmen to well guide all machineries’
operators such as “crane, shovel, excavator, truck, bobcat…. etc.
that is to control any near-mis which accident to fatality cases.
- Company instructs vehicle speed not cross speed limit 10km/ hr.
inside the construction zones.
- Company well monitor all moving trucks such as concrete mixers and
trailers by GPS that is a kind of road assessment to them if any
critical cases might be occurred and truck drivers lost his connections
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to logistic department., on other side to track All trucks route to
advise the receiver when trucks will arrive to workplace to plan his
works.
- Company designates an exclusion barricade zones and well
supervising by HSE officers and operation team during any lifting
gears to avoid any worker to cross the zones.
- Company well conducts all workers and staff by third party in
followings training works:
heavy lifting, working at height, operating the machineries electrical
fire hazards and power tools to ensure that the workers have well
knowledge to operate it.
- Company distributes a hydration drinks to all operation team in
summertime to able to work.
- Company well treat the heat stress of summer session by giving a
long rest to all workers and operation team from 12:30pm to
15:00pm; (Gulf summertime from June 15th to Sep. 15th).
One of my previous company, there was NO safety at whole as operation
team stronger in his decision and ignoring safety advisor as focusing more in
productivity of work that causes a several of injury’s cases at site.
Security I listed below my current company’s security:
- Company monitor the store and warehouses by CCTV to ensure that
nothing of goods and tools are missed.
- Company provide a magnetic access cards in all department’s
offices.
- Company initiates a gate pass format along with the attached photos
of item to be existed out and indicates all on track list. (working at
site)
- Company conducts inventory each quarter of the year for
consumable items and twice in a year for permanent materials and
tools.
Welfare I listed below my current company’s welfare
- Company provides fully furnishing a clinic inside the workplace to
well treatment for all injury’s cases at construction site and first aid as
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well.
- Company distributes a tiffin (food boxes) and cooler water bottles to
all workers.
- Company covers fully furnishing pantry to all staff to have their lunch
and drink and rest areas for all workers as well.
- Company provides a mineral water supply company to home usage
with less rate compared to market prices.
- Company provides shaded parking slots to all employees.
- Company provides a transportation to all staff are using public
transportation.
-
Motivation - Company setup a training academy to learn and teach all fresh
workers, employees, and skilled workers as well.
- Company encourages all employees to join a health club and sharing
50% off GYM’s invoices.
- Company encourages all employees to take Engineering courses or
master’s degrees and sharing 50% off after completion two years.
- Company facilitates to have percentage discount for all employees
are purchasing home appliances and electronic items from M/s
Jumbo, www.jumbo.com.
- Company provides all resources and tools to fit your abilities to work
in suitable environment.
- Company built-up work-facebook application, it called Yammer to
post your work success, or your ideas of works or your problem to
resolve it or your adviser to have a feedback from other.
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All the above are related to Maslow’s theory as safety needs.
Part of examples of companies are focusing in motivations and related other
motivation theories.
Appraisal
System
- Self-Employee Evaluation: employee will select numbers of stars for
the rating for each goal and competency upon below criteria.
1- Rating scale of busines objective
The below is extracted from my company guidelines, referred to the attached company
appraisal
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2- Rating scale of competencies as the followings
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Compensatio
n & Benefits
- Company provides yearly bones upon the appraisals results.
- Company provides bank loan with less interest to all employees.
But on the other side, I respected the company while top management has
decided to transfer me and save my place as a construction manager during
client has halted the projects in three months then recently returned back to
the same project again, which a kind of benefits as I felt that company has
respected my responsibility as need me to complete the project to end.
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