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Human Resource Management (HRM) is the management of people to achieve business objectives. It is aimed at recruiting capable, flexible and committed people, managing and rewarding their performance and developing key competencies.

It therefore includes areas such as:

• equality and discrimination
• legislation
• Investors in People
• policies
• recruitment and selection
• remuneration
• training.

Health and safety issues are covered under a separate section of this e-Resource centre.

With all the recent changes in legislation and with EU legislation coming into effect, employment law is an area where many organisations need advice. For further information, visit the "Employment Law" section.

The following websites may be useful:

• The HRM Guide Network 

The HRM Guide Network is a series of linked websites containing hundreds of pages of HR-related articles, features and links.

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 

CIPD is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people. The website provides information about training courses and also has an information resources section which contains an extensive range of information on key people management and development issues and concepts.

Excerpts from CIPD factsheets are contained in the following sections:

• Equality and discrimination
• Legislation
• Investors in people
• Policies
• Discipline and grievance procedures
• Recruitment and selection
• Remuneration
• Training
• Employment law

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