Yearly Archives: 2011

The management of human resources is a fairly broad discipline and a human resource management graduate can be deployed in different units of a human resource department. The management positions in a human resource department will start at a human resources manager and progress to a vice president and director with the actual titles changing from one organization to the next. The human resource manager will usually be in charge of a single unit. One may be a recruitment manager, a training manager, a compensation manager, a health and safety manager, a pension manager etcetera. As he or she progresses upwards through the ranks, the number of units they oversee grows with the highest being the head of a human resources division.

A few years ago on a chilly December evening, my wife and I were having a late dinner one night at a restaurant in Malibu. The main restaurant had closed so we were seated near the bar. A man walked in through the front door, who looked like he was on a very serious mission, but at the same time seemed in good spirits. I would estimate he was in his early 40s. It was probably around 10:30 in the evening and it was Saturday night–the weekend before Christmas. There were various drunks sitting and chatting at the bar.