Chapter 6: Human Resources Management Audit: Ensuring Compliance With HRM Laws and Regulations

Human resources management (HRM) professionals are responsible for many actions and programs in their organizations that are associated with managing individuals throughout the employee lifecycle to maximize employee and organizational effectiveness in achieving goals. More importantly, HRM is at the center of most employers’ efforts to identify, hire, and retain the people the organization needs to execute its strategy and achieve its goals. This includes actions by HRM professionals that range from analyzing and designing jobs; recruiting individuals to apply for jobs; selecting individuals to join organizations; training and developing people while they are employed; helping to manage their performance; rewarding and compensating employee performance while maintaining healthy labor relations and helping keep them safe; managing diversity and complying with local, national, and global employee laws; and managing their exit or departure, from the organization (see Bauer et al., 2021; Dessler, 2017).