A Few New Things That I've Learned

This last week has been a good week. I have learned a lot. First off, I am realizing that human resources means so much more than I perceived previously. My perception of HR use to be that they were the "unseen" office people that dealt with employee taxes and laws. I am not an expert on human resource management but I do know that HR deals with anything related to an employee. Here is a list of what I have come to understand that HR plays a part: enforcing laws and federal acts that affect employees, hiring, firing, training, taxes, payroll, job analyst and workflow technologies, general company "dos" and "don'ts"... I am sure that I have forgotten a number of other aspects that HR deals with, but this is what I can think of for now.

During my class and chapter readings I have started realizing that HR basically keeps employees happy. That is what they are there for. So that brings up a question; Have you ever had a job that treats you poorly vs very well? And if so, do companies need to focus HR efforts to achieve happy employees? I feel that any world class company would, and they would try to have happier employees at all levels of employment.