Internet

Internet connects people all over the world, through this transfer of information has been very easy and fast. Not like before the Internet was introduced, people tend to give more effort transporting data and information manually, which will take more time and even pushes you to spend more money. 

The concept and foundation for creation of the Internet was somehow developed by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about technology by accurately predicting its future:

Vannevar Bush wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.
Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.
The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference crystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences.
Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, triggering US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA agency to regain the technological lead in the arms race. ARPA appointed J.C.R. Licklider to head the new IPTO organization with a mandate to further the research of the SAGE program and help protect the US against a space-based nuclear attack. Licklider evangelized within the IPTO about the potential benefits of a country-wide communications network, influencing his successors to hire Lawrence Roberts to implement his vision.

Roberts led development of the network, based on the new idea of packet switching discovered by Paul Baran at RAND, and a few years later by Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory. A special computer called an Interface Message Processor was developed to realize the design, and the ARPANET went live in early October, 1969. The first communications were between Leonard Kleinrock's research center at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Douglas Engelbart's center at the Stanford Research Institute.

The first networking protocol used on the ARPANET was the Network Control Program. In 1983, it was replaced with the TCP/IP protocol developed by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others, which quickly became the most widely used network protocol in the world.

In 1990, the ARPANET was retired and transferred to the NSFNET. The NSFNET was soon connected to the CSNET, which linked Universities around North America, and then to the EUnet, which connected research facilities in Europe. Thanks in part to the NSF's enlightened management, and fueled by the popularity of the web, the use of the Internet exploded after 1990, causing the US Government to transfer management to independent organizations starting in 1995.
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_summary.htm

Infrastructure description

The overall responsibility for managing Internet Protocol address or domain names at upper levels is vested in the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which delegates the actual administration of most functions to other bodies.

At global regional levels, the principal bodies providing allocation and registration services that support the operation of the Internet globally are:

• RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre)
  
• ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers)
  
• APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre)
  
• LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry)
• AfriNIC (African Regional Registry for Internet Number Resources)
  

Internet Operations

Internet operations are coordinated worldwide through the Internet Engineering Planning Group (IEPG), an Internet operational group intended to assist Internet Service Providers to interoperate within the Global Internet. At global regional levels, bodies active in coordinating operations include the:
American Registry for Internet Numbers

Manages the Internet numbering resources for North America, a portion of the Caribbean, and sub-equatorial Africa.

Asia Pacific Networking Group (APOPs)
Promotes the Internet and the coordination of network inter-connectivity in the Asia Pacific Region.
Internet Security

Internet network security is significantly facilitated by a number of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in eight countries and within a number of service provider operations and private networks. They were formed to continually monitor the network for security incidents, serve as a repository for information about such incidents, and develop responsive advisories. The CERTs are coordinated by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.

Internationalisation

Alis Technologies

Founded in 1981, Alis Technologies Inc. develops standards for Multilingual Information Management Solutions (MIMS )with the IETF (Internet Engeneering Task Force), the Unicode Consortium, W3C and LISA.
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Committee
Working group to study making domain names available in character sets other than ASCII.
MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium)
A non-profit, non-governmental, international organization. It focuses on the promotion of multilingualisation of Internet names, including Internet domain names and keywords, internationalization of Internet names standards and protocols, technical coordination and liaison with other international bodies.
CNNIC (China Network Information Center)
(site is in Chinese)
KRNIC (Korea Network Information Center)
Established the system for managing Internet address resources in Korea.
TWNIC (Taiwan Network Infomation Center)
The unique neutral and non-profit organization that takes charge of the domain name registration and IP address allocation in Taiwan.
The Unicode Consortium
Responsible for defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters, and providing technical information to implementers. The Consortium cooperates with ISO in refining the specification and expanding the character set.
Internet Connectivity
Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
Database about international networking developments and Internet connectivity providers, with major emphasis on countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania. Information is available on country-by-country basis and includes connectivity providers, networking infrastructure, and other country-specific information.

Connectivity Table from University of Wisconsin's FTP server.
Lists entities with and without international network connectivity. Shows countries (with ISO two letter country code (ISO 3166)) which have:
international IP Internet links
domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet, and
domestic FIDONET sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.
Connectivity Maps
Internet Hosts Map
Shows the millions of Internet hosts worldwide as of January 1999.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/infrastructure/

As the Internet grows in popularity (and usefulness?), choosing the right connection for accessing it is becoming a very important decision at many nonprofits. While modems still provide many smaller nonprofits with their crawling connection, DSL, cable, ISDN, and T1 are introducing many organizations to the joys of high-speed access.
Speed

When you read an ad that says: "Our Connection Provides You With an Amazing and Unbelievable 10 Megs Per Second Download Speed," you should be amazed, but maybe not as much as you think. Some time back, a quick marketing person decided that Internet connection speed would be better described in bits, not the bytes usually used to describe disk size and RAM space. So that "unbelievable" 10 MegaBITS per second is actually about 1.25 megaBYTES per second. This article, not to confuse things further, will continue to discuss Internet speed in bits per second. So, don't jump out of your skin the next time you read about another "unbelievable" download speed. Simply divide by 8.
Types of Access: Dial-Up vs. "Always On"

Anyone who has used a modem knows the problems associated with dial-up access. Even if you just want to check your email for one minute, you have to wait a couple minutes for your modem to dial a number and establish a connection to your ISP. It often takes less time to check your email than it does to connect the Internet! While this isn't a major problem if you rarely use the Internet, it can be a major annoyance if you use it heavily. For heavy users, a dedicated, "always on" connection such as DSL or T1 is the better alternative. Not only does such a connection provide access "on demand," it is also faster and easier to share with a large group of users.
Dial-Up Connection - 56K

Bottom line -- modem speeds have pretty much hit the speed limit with 56K modems. In fact, 56K is a little misleading. Due to FCC regulations, the maximum transmission is more around 53K. If your organization needs a faster connection, you will have to go with a digital connection (i.e. xDSL, ISDN, etc.). However, if you find the right ISP, and your nonprofit doesn't have high access demands, modems may more than fulfill your needs.
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/connections/archives/page10224.cfm

As said above, it is better to use DSL than Dial-up and it is a good thing that the university's Internet connection was DSL.

Technology
Internet Rocket Homepageware 5.0
Internet Rocket is a simple tool for speeding up an Internet connection. Use the easy to follow wizard to optimize the registry for your Internet connection. DNS Rocket will cache server information on hard drive to speed the Internet even more.

InternetVelocity 1.5
InternetVelocity is a powerful utility that dramatically increases the speed that you surf the web by configuring key TCP/IP parameters, filtering Pop-up and Banner Ads, and prefetching pages before you need them! Surf two, or three times faster!

Accelerweb 2.0
Welcome to Accelerweb! Accelerweb is the latest in simple Internet acceleration technology. Accelerweb caches DNS settings to the hosts file. Accelerweb will store IP address/domain information in a local cache called the "Hosts" file.

http://fast-internet.softplatz.net/

Infrastracture
In information technology and on the Internet, infrastructure is the physical hardware used to interconnect computers and users. Infrastructure includes the transmission media, including telephone lines, cable television lines, and satellites and antennas, and also the routers, aggregators, repeaters, and other devices that control transmission paths. Infrastructure also includes the software used to send, receive, and manage the signals that are transmitted.

In some usages, infrastructure refers to interconnecting hardware and software and not to computers and other devices that are interconnected. However, to some information technology users, infrastructure is viewed as everything that supports the flow and processing of information.

Infrastructure companies play a significant part in evolving the Internet, both in terms of where the interrconnections are placed and made accessible and in terms of how much information can be carried how quickly.
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci212346,00.html

As from what I know, the university is using fiber-optic cable, which is a glass or plastic fiber that carries light along its length. Fiber optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers. Optical fibers are widely used in fiber-optic communications, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communications. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because signals travel along them with less loss, and they are also immune to electromagnetic interference. Fibers are also used for illumination, and are wrapped in bundles so they can be used to carry images, thus allowing viewing in tight spaces. Specially designed fibers are used for a variety of other applications, including sensors and fiber lasers.

Light is kept in the core of the optical fiber by total internal reflection. This causes the fiber to act as a waveguide. Fibers which support many propagation paths or transverse modes are called multi-mode fibers (MMF), while those which can only support a single mode are called single-mode fibers (SMF). Multi-mode fibers generally have a larger core diameter, and are used for short-distance communication links and for applications where high power must be transmitted. Single-mode fibers are used for most communication links longer than 550 meters (1,800 ft).

Joining lengths of optical fiber is more complex than joining electrical wire or cable. The ends of the fibers must be carefully cleaved, and then spliced together either mechanically or by fusing them together with an electric arc. Special connectors are used to make removable connections.

Fiber optic cables can transfer data through light and it is more reliable compared to UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) or STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) cable, since it is more protected from disturbances and noises.

The only thing is, fiber optic cable cost you more when talking about expense and it is more sensitive, when cutting, so it needs a specialized cutter.

All in all I am contented with the Internet connection of the University, except for the fact that the Internet connection sometimes, time out.

HRM on SONA '09

• With earnings of $6 billion and employment of 600,000, the BPO phenomenon speaks eloquently of our competitiveness and productivity.

-BPO or Business Process Outsourcing have been very popular to the Filipinos. Through BPO's companies will come to hire people from the Philippines, thus, giving a huge numbers of opportunity for the Filipino workers.

• In the last four years tourism almost doubled. It is now a $5 billion industry.

-Tourism is one of the jobs for those people and workers that are not qualified for an office work. Our native people are the ones that will benefit mostly with regards to tourism. They can become tour guides and when numbers of tourist will come to visit Philippines, that means more dollars will come for the Philippines.

• Sa pagpapamahagi ng milyun-milyong ektaryang lupa, 700,000 na katutubo at mahigit isang milyong benepisyaryo ng CARP ay taas-noong may-ari na ng sariling lupa.

-Filipinos are born farmers, it is the primary job of a huge percent of the Filipinos. By granting hectares for native people, they would be able to plant more raw materials and foods, especially rice. This means that they will be more numbers of stocks for export and for the Philippines itself.

• Nakinabang ang pitong milyong entrepreneurs sa P165 billion na microfinance loans.

-Due to this, there will be lot of companies and firms that will rise, which means they will need huge numbers of employees, thus, resulting to reduce or even vanish the problem with unemployed Filipinos.

• Nagtayo tayo ng 95,000 na silid-aralan, nagdagdag ng 60,000 na guro, naglaan ng P1.5 billion para sa teacher training, especially for 100,000 English teachers.

-As from what we all know, that education is the only property that can not be bought, and another thing is, it is the foundation of every Filipinos lives and job in the future. If there will be more class rooms established, the more students will be accommodated by a certain school, especially public schools located on native areas.

Information Environment

Have you ever heard of the Quezon City Controlled Disposal Facility? You may not be familiar., but I'll tell you anyway. The Quezon City Controlled Disposal Facility was before called the Payatas Dumpsite, which has burried more than 200 lives on the year 2000. The new system that was implemented of the said place was having a better use of the biogas emmitted by garbage on the said site. They have made used of they're problem before. In which this biogas emissions will be converted into electricity that is enough to empower numbers of cloth irons.

One of the potential solutions in social and environmental sustainability in municipal solid waste management (MSW) in Metro Manila is to combine community-based recycling and sound landfill management strategies. The marriage of the two puts importance on recycling as a source of livelihood while proper landfill management aims to improve the aesthetic and environmental quality of disposal facilities in urban areas. To do this, a social mapping of wastepickers, junkshops and local recycling practices needs to be undertaken and at the same time assess strategies of the national and local governments vis-à-vis existing laws on municipal solid waste. The case of Payatas controlled disposal facility was taken as a pilot study because it represents the general condition of disposal sites in Metro Manila and the social landscape that it currently has. In addition, a waste-to-energy (WTE) project has been established in Payatas to produce electricity from methane gas. Preliminary interviews with wastepickers show that development interventions in disposal sites such as WTE pose no opposition from host communities for as long as alternative livelihood opportunities are provided. Regulating the flow of wastepickers into the landfill has advantages like improved income and security. Felt needs were also articulated like provision of financial support or capital for junkshop operation and skills training. Overall, a smooth relationship between the local government and community associations pays well in a transitioning landfill management scheme such as Payatas.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B8CX4-4W45TP3-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1028165164&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2ab9fbae8bd428dc04602b2b86b2660a

The latest typhoon called Ondoy that hit Luzon, Metro Manila and nearby cities and places. According to PAG-ASA, the typhoon sustained winds 85 kph and almost reached up to 100 kph. It was just a day of surprised flooding and yet it has ended many lives without any hesitation, whether lives are young or not. The flood even reached as high as Meralco posts.

Ondoy was not the only disaster that hit Philippines, the landslides that have killed numbers of lives and we’re still counting for more disasters to come. It is normal that we have typhoons but the latest disaster the Philippines encountered was far from normal. It isn’t normal to sink the whole town with just a signal number one typhoon. It didn’t even choose whom to kill and even the Philippine celebrities, which are expected to be safer have not even, become safer than any other Filipino people.

The Philippines is a very crucial country Philippines is said to belong on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Pacific Ring of Fire is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km curve shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 45 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.

About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.

The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward moving South American Plate. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion the northwestward moving Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Further west the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under southwestern United States and Mexico. The motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt. The active Queen Charlotte Fault on the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, has generated three large earthquakes during the 20th century: a magnitude 7 event in 1929, a magnitude 8.1 occurred in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake) and a magnitude 7.4 in 1970.
In the Philippines, the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world's second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. Successful predictions of the onset of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, saving many lives, but as the surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later, lahars caused by rainwater remobilising earlier volcanic deposits, thousands of houses were destroyed.

Mayon Volcano is the Philippines' most active volcano. The volcano has steep upper slopes that average 35–40 degrees and is capped by a small summit crater. The historical eruptions of this basaltic-andesitic volcano dates back to 1616 and ranges from Strombolian to basaltic Plinian eruptions. Eruptions occur predominately from the central conduit and have also produced lava flows that travel far down the flanks. Pyroclastic flows and mudflows have commonly swept down many of the approximately 40 ravines that radiate from the summit and have often devastated populated lowland areas.

Taal Volcano has had 33 recorded eruptions since 1572. A devastating eruption occurred in 1911, which claimed more than a thousand lives. The deposits of that eruption consisted of a yellowish, fairly decomposed (non-juvenile) tephra with a high sulfur content. The most recent period of activity lasted from 1965 to 1977, and was characterized by the interaction of magma with the lake water, which produced violent phreatic explosions. Although the volcano has been dormant since 1977, it has shown signs of unrest since 1991, with strong seismic activity and ground fracturing events, as well as the formation of small mud geysers on parts of the island.

Kanlaon is the most active volcano in central Philippines and has erupted 25 times since 1866. Eruptions are typically phreatic explosions of small-to-moderate size that produce minor ashfalls near the volcano. On August 10, 1996, Kanlaon erupted without warning, killing British student Julian Green and Filipinos Noel Tragico and Neil Perez, who were among 24 mountainclimbers who were trapped near the summit.
And now, we are slowly drowning due to global warming, which melts the ice glaciers all over the world. It is even rumored that by the time that all of the ice glaciers melted, the highest peak, Mt. Apo, will become a small island. Doesn’t it fear? While we are enjoying the modern world discoveries, we have forgotten and became deaf of our mother earth’s voice. We have become deaf due to the noises that are emitted by large machines that also emit large smokes that suffocate the globe more than we are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire

So what can we young ones do? Simple, we can at least reduce smokes and stacked garbage. By small actions, like throwing garbage in its right place and segregating them will reduce even 0.00000001 garbage that aren’t on its right place. We can replace plastic bags with paper bags or even cloth bags. We should bear in mind that plastic bags takes more than a lifetime to decay.

With regards to the modernized machines and technology, since development of technology is the main reason why global warming has gone so far. Yes, it is true that we can’t take technology and gadgets away from the people of the world. The people have adopted them and have learned to live them. Another thing is, it would be difficult to go back to the old ways, where we get to walk at least a kilometer just to get to the middle of the town. We have been living the way we live today with great ease, in which we forget or oversee the negative results it will bring when the time comes.

Like our lives, earth is also one in the whole world. Everything is changing and change is nature itself. I am not saying that it is fine to change the world, I am rather emphasizing that we can’t change the past but we can we can always regret them, thus, giving us an overview of what will happen if don’t move today.

Personnel Management and Human Resource Managment

• When it comes to handling all the responsibilities associated with maintaining a workforce, personnel management has the most legal and financial responsibilities of the whole organization, without which the overall success of the business is at risk. http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Personnel_Management

-It is said that personnel management is the foundation of a company. In which, without this the company will not succeed and it will be hard to reach its goals.

• Administrative discipline of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization. It includes (1) conducting job analyses, (2) planning personnel needs, and recruitment, (3) selecting the right people for the job, (4) orienting and training, (5) determining and managing wages and salaries, (6) providing benefits and incentives, (7) appraising performance, (8) resolving disputes, (9) communicating with all employees at all levels. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/personnel-management.html
  

-Personnel Management includes making job analyses so that a company will know what is the needs of the company itself and its employees.

• Business Definition for: Personnel Management
  
  * the part of management that is concerned with people and their relationships at work. Personnel management is the responsibility of all those who manage people, as well as a description of the work of specialists. Personnel managers advise on, formulate, and implement personnel policies such as recruitment, conditions of employment, performance appraisal, training, industrial relations, and health and safety. There are various models of personnel management, of which human resource management is the most recent. http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/Personnel+Management.htm

-The business world describes personnel management as the responsibility of supervisors or managers. In which supervisors or managers will advise and of course make decisions for the sake of the company as well as the employees under his/her level.

• Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of specialist personnel and human resource management advisory services to departments, and the development and implementation of a relevant, coherent and modern framework of employment policies and practices throughout the University.
  Each member of Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of these services to a number of departments. This distribution is known as the Personnel Management Portfolio.
  
  Personnel Management is also responsible for the delivery of the Human Resource Strategy and associated programmes of work. http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/personnel/management/index.php

-Like the above description of personnel management, it is stated that it is responsible for making decisions and it is also added that it is also responsible for making and deciding what strategies should be used between different departments of a certain company.

• Personnel management is concerned with the effective use of the skills of people. They may be salespeople in a store, clerks in an office, operators in a factory, or technicians in a research laboratory. In a business, personnel management starts with the recruiting and hiring of qualified people and continues with directing and encouraging their growth as they encounter problems and tensions that arise in working toward established goals. http://www.zeromillion.com/business/personnel/personnel-management.html

-The above statement states that personnel management that is concerned with the best use of the people inside a firm. It may range from the lowest level in the company to the highest. Thus, hiring the most qualified appliocant will be the best for the company.

HRM

• The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. http://managementhelp.org/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm

-HRM is broad and it holds a very huge portion of a certain firm. One of the activities that HRM does is deciding on what the company needs.

• Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by line managers. http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryh/f/hr_management.htm

-It is described very brief, in which it is said that HRM focuses mostly on recruiting, hiring and supervising or giving direction on employees.

• Human Resource Management is a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of highly committed and capable workforce, using an integrated array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=bc8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Human+Resource+Management&source=bl&ots=t0IGMS_-5l&sig=mkGU-Q_D-2ewBd9HELW6MJ-1k04&hl=tl&ei=Dmq4SvmuIsn7tgfjw4DuDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false

-It is described as having a deep approach to employment, in which it is looking forward for achieving and having the very best workforce.

• Human resource management is resource-centered activity providing and deploying human resources catering to management needs. It is aligned to management interest being a management activity. Demand rather than supply is the focus of the activity. HRM emphasized on planning, monitoring and control. Human resources issues and problem solving is undertaken with other members of the management. Management of human resources is similar to other aspect of management in the organisation and an integrated part of it. http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937653&promo=100511

-I agree with the description, except for this line, "HRM emphasized on planning, monitoring and control." Because we all know that we can never control human beings.

• The human resource function has gone from the traditional hire and fire role to a strategic partner at the table with finance, operations and other business centers that are not centers of profit for the organization. The job of HR, as is the job of all such departments, is to ensure that the business gets the most out of its employees. Another way to put this is that the human resource management needs to provide a high return on the business's investment in its people. This makes it a highly complex function - because it deals with not just management issues but human ones as well. http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937441&promo=100511

-HRM is responsible for all of the departments and it should have the most out of its employees.