Personnel department
The chief function of a personnel department is to provide an efficient labor force and ensure that the entire organization follows appropriate personnel policies. Personnel functions include recruiting, hiring, training, evaluation, retirement counseling, termination, and out placement. Further, the personnel department oversees writing and updating fob descriptions and the conduct of time and motion studies. Hiring to replace a worker starts with a labor requisition sent to the personnel department by a department head or supervisor. Hiring to expand the workforce requires authorization by executive management, whose approval is based on the labor requirements of production. The personnel department, in conjunction with the department heads concerned, plans the expansion requirements and agrees on promotions, terminations, transfers, numbers and skills of workers to be hired, and the dates on which new employees report for work.