Role of a Human Resource (Personnel ) Department in the Public

Sector

The Human Resources (HR) Department deals with the management

of an organization's

most valuable asset or resource- its employees. It has a number of

responsibilities.

First of all, the Department is responsible for hiring skilful and

competent employees.

This will involve attracting employees, keeping them in their

positions and ensuring that

they perform to expectations to achieve the organization's

objectives.

One of the major functions of the HR Department is to motivate

employees to perform

better. This is done through an attractive monetary compensation

package to retain its

most valuable workers.

The HR Department takes on the role as trainer to new employees,

empowering and