Decision-Making Skills: HR managers must make a wide variety of decisions that affect whether employees are qualified and motivated and whether the organization is operating efficiently and complying with the law.
Leadership Skills: HR managers need to play a leadership role with regard to the organization’s human resources. In today’s environment, leadership often requires helping the organization manage change.
Technical Skills: In HRM, professionals need knowledge of state-of-the-art practices in such areas as staffing, development, rewards, organizational design, and communication.
Professionals must be able to evaluate the worth of new techniques and critically evaluate them in light of HRM principles and business value to determine which are beneficial.