Importance Of An Hr Department In An Oil And Gas Company

By Author: Steve Sinclair
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No company, irrespective of its size, can function effectively without the Human Resource (HR) department nowadays. So, what exactly is meant by Human Resource? Human Resource or HR is the term used in companies and businesses to refer to a department or group of people that is responsible for the hiring of new employees, their training, managing the compensation packages the company offers to its employees and also overseeing the employee benefits.

The term Human Resource was coined in 1960s in the United States at the time when most US businesses realized the importance of labor relations. Since then HR has spread all over the world.

Role of HR personnel

The role of oil and gas HR personnel includes

• Managing the employees- the employees of a company form the human resource of the company and they are a key asset. A successful company manages its employees successfully and the HR department is responsible for management of a company’s employees. Therefore, every company nowadays has an HR department though this department does not contribute, albeit directly, to the production of goods and ...
... services and sales of the company. An HR department is successful when it ably encourages the employees to do their very best.

• Recruiting new employees- the HR department of a company is responsible for the recruitment of new employees. It is the task of the HR department to scrutinize and review job applications and select the more appropriate ones from them. Then the more appropriate job applications will have to be forwarded to the concerned managers of the company. The hiring procedure of a company might include background checks of the prospective employees along with credit checks as well as drug testing. This screening falls under the purview of the HR department.

The positive aspects of the roles and functions of the Oil & Gas HR department include

• Recruitment and management of employees
• Improvement of the compensation packages for the employees
• Planning the future engagements of the company. These engagements are the ones that require the employees of the company

The negative aspects of the roles and functions of the Oil & Gas HR department include

• Dealing with recruitment problems
• Dealing with remuneration problems
• Dealing with planning problems