Leadership and Human Resources Practices

Leadership and the Care and Maintenance of Human Resources

Understanding HR practices is critical for leaders.

For the next two weeks, we will focus on some basic human resources practices for leaders — how to best hire employees/team members, how to evaluate their performance and incentivize them. Some of this will serve as a “refresher course” for you, but realize that the information that is being provided represents the latest, evidence-based HR practices.

For Development: A truly great leader is well-versed in human resources issues because it lies at the heart of the leader-follower relationship. What can you do to stay more informed of best practices in HR?