This document discusses the functions of human resource management in organizations. It explains that human resource management involves job analysis, design, and evaluation to acquire, maintain, and develop people's knowledge, skills, attitudes, potential, and values. The key functions of human resource management include job analysis, training, appraisal, rewards and recognition, planning, recruitment, selection and placement, employee and industrial relations, and providing human resources information. Human resource management uses job analysis to gather job description, specification, and content information to aid staffing, work design, performance appraisal, compensation, and training.