ABSENCE AND ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT.
Businesses all over the world today are addressing the fact that when human resource management and other such resource management skills are gaining high importance because, not only of their efficiency in long-run productivity processes of the firm, but also because the simple idea of human resource departments attracts future employees because of the perceived benefits that such departments create within a firm or corporation. Defining it, human resource management is the strategic approach of management within an organization, firm, corporation, or group which tries to manage its most valuable resources — namely the people who work for the organization — to provide better efficiency both for themselves and for the firm and its output and related profit maximizing goal. Also cold as personnel management, human resource management has changed rapidly during the past few years to cover various topics and needs and is indeed a extensive topic both in the world of the practical applications in business as well as an academic institutions which focus in the learning of management and in masters of business management — MBA — programs.
The skills that are eventually applied in human resource management is the administration of individuals, the management of these individuals, the management of the manpower these individuals may be able to provide, as well as industrial management with respect to the needs of such workers. Also, within the bounds of human resource management, the traditional management techniques of planning, organizing, staffing, direct in, and controlling is integrated in the process. In fact, a specific study in human resource management is the workforce planning and future recruitment of individuals — as well as their eventual training and development for the firm — in order to provide high efficiency gains both for themselves and for the firm to gain more profits.
In fact, discussing and even understanding a part of human resource management would take pages and pages of discussion in order to capture and hold degree programs have been dedicated in this field. It is, in fact, the most essential role in today’s labor driven economy because it addresses the labor factor which is a high functional variable into the long-run profitability and efficiency of a firm.
A specialized discipline of human resource management is attendance and absence management which had gained popularity only recently because of the need of firms to control and direct the occurrence of absenteeism of labor working in the company. For example, there are prevention methods that are addressed by absence and attendance management theory which are promotions and health screening which in the long run would prevent absence that are caused either mechanical boredom or health-related problems. Also, falling under the theory and application is occupational health and medical insurance benefits as well as medical rehabilitation. Human resource management with respect to attendance and absence its also make sure that employees go to work on time and provide incentives for those who are able to do so and gives incentives or punishments to those who are not. The reason why each firm — for each firm’s human resource management department — need some sort of attendance management scheme is so that they may be able to adapt their various incentives and disincentives to ensure efficiency for the employees and long-run profits of the firm