Hr Roles and Responsibilities

HR Roles and Responsibilities

The strong legacy of ethics and integrity is essential at United Parcel Service(UPS) in order for the company to be able to attract and retain the best employees, gain and keep the trust of its customers, create shareholder value, support the communities in which they operate and the protection of the company’s overall reputation. This legacy has to be carried on for every employee and management in order to remain a competitive package delivery company. All of these aspects pertain to this legacy that revolves in human resources department.

UPS as a company has become an employer of rewards, opportunity and achievement, and employer of choice. The company’s nationally recognized human resources initiatives focus on the idea of keeping the reputation of being the best package delivery company in the business. In the facility I work for in Ontario, our Human Resources department faces a lot of challenges when dealing with their roles and responsibilities reason being this location is one of the largest in UPS. The HR roles and responsibilities have to be followed correctly in order for them to be proper in helping UPS maintain the reputation of having one of the world's largest and most talented workforces.

HR roles and responsibilities in UPS

To define roles of UPS Human Resources organization, the roles represent the interests of UPS administration by actively serving as a leaders with the organizational workforce, consultant, resource, and departmental authority on human resource policies, processes, programs, and transactions with support and guidance from management, division and Central Human Resources; to support a humane and supportive work environment consistent with the UPS mission and foundation values. In other words, UPS Human resources enforce the policies that the administration establishes and makes sure the policies are interpreted equally and fairly. The Human Resources Department at UPS incorporates several different roles and responsibilities which are; employment training and development, health and safety, regulatory compliance, employee information management, and community relations (Morgan).

Employment Training and Development

Where I work, my human resources management team faces the responsibility of hiring and training any prospective employee who is to become part of the company’s workforce. Most of the hiring at UPS involves acquiring a part time workforce. Most of the jobs offered in the facility start as part time jobs. This process for the HR department is challenging due to the many different guidelines that they are set to follow. There is an interviewing that every perspective employee goes through. A requirement for applying for a part time job is simply that of a high school diploma or a GED. The development thereafter consist of promoting or hiring that employee that has been working part time first, to fill those full time positions that are available.

Health and Safety

The safety of the employees and of the general public is of utmost important to Human Resources. Every employee is trained to avoid injury to themselves and others in all phases of an employees work duty. They make it well known that will not tolerate unsafe work practices. They encourage the involvement of all of their people in safety awareness activities and recognition for safety accomplishments. Training is the cornerstone of safety in UPS’s fleet of package delivery drivers. The company invests millions per year on safety training. The HR department becomes a key enforcer of the health and safety procedures and makes sure that the money spent in those procedures is worthwhile.

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory compliance is also a role and a responsibility of the HR department in my work location. Regulatory compliance has become legal and necessary in UPS. Regulatory compliance has become a larger concern for the HR department increasingly as business practices change. Human Resources department takes steps to ensure the company does not run into problems that will affect the integrity and availability of UPS’s workforce. All UPS employees are required to comply with all regulations whether is a work locations procedures or legal regulations. Many of the procedures the HR department has to enforce are for example; all employees are require to comply with all dress code regulations such as, identification, boots for safety, and uniforms for all fulltime drivers. But the must critical is the legal regulations like, not working under the influence of any legal/illegal drug, harassments, assaults, like fights among employees, etc. The HR department has to monitor all