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Human Resource Departments

Many people have a very limited sense of the responsibilities of a Human Resources department, imagining that it consists of a clerical staff whose job it is to distribute employee handbooks and to let people know how many vacation days they have accrued. But in reality, the modern human resources department has a wide range of responsibilities and can affect the overall efficiency and productivity of an organization. This is certainly true of the human resources department within the Los Angeles Community College District.

The human resources department of LACCD, like that of analogous departments in other college and school districts, has a number of obligations to the current employees of the district; it is also responsible for serving the needs of those seeking employment with the district. To some extent sets of tasks overlap because both current employees and potential employees are often interested in the same questions, including issues such as pensions and health insurance. However, in general the role of the human resources department is more complicated in terms of those who are already employed by the district.

Many of the complexities in human resource management in the college district arise from the fact that district employees are an extremely diverse group. Many are full-time, while others are part-time who wish to move into a full-time position and still others are part-time and wish to remain so. Some district employees have a number of advanced degrees while others have not finished high school. A wide range of ethnicities is represented within the district work force and a number of languages are spoken by district workers (http://www.laccd.edu) All of these facts present challenges to the human resources division.

These challenges arise in no small part because one of the most important tasks of a human resources department is to help to tailor the benefits that are offered by an institution to meet the ...

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