human resources
... Once known as Personnel Administration, the discipline of Human Resource Management is continually evolving and expanding. ... The strategic aspect of Human Resource Management has outgrown the boundaries of a departmental concern, and nowadays the main challenge Human Resource Management faces is aligning its planning and operations activities with the general goals and objectives of the company as whole. ... Such is the scale and complexity of the human resource element that the firm has to have the right kind of vision, understanding of staffing issues, organized and coordinated programs relevant to the changing objectives of the business.