What is the meaning and characteristics of human resources?

Human resources have three meanings. Refers to the sum of working-age population, underage population and over-age population with working ability in a country or region. Or expressed as: the population of a country or region after deducting the population who have lost the ability to work. Human resources also refer to the education, ability, skills, experience and physical strength that people in an organization have in a certain period that can be used by enterprises and contribute to value creation.

Characteristics of human resources service

Human resource is a special and important resource, and it is the most dynamic and elastic part of all kinds of productive forces. It has the following basic characteristics:

1. Fundamental: The content involved in human resource outsourcing is the basic part of traditional human resource activities, that is, fundamental, which is the necessary reason for the existence of human resource outsourcing activities. When the society entered the 2 1 century, enterprise management became mainly based on human resource management, and immediately upgraded to the strategic level. In the process of human resource management, the previous personnel management also changed into the bottom structure of strategic management. For the enterprise human resource manager, in order to give full play to the role of the boss's strategic partner, it is bound to require him to outsource these basic tasks to professional institutions for operation, so as to free up time and energy for strategic thinking.

2. Repeatability: Human resource outsourcing activities are repetitive, which is not only reflected in the specific content of outsourcing activities themselves, but also reflected in the repetitive demand of enterprises for human resource outsourcing services. The repetition of human resource outsourcing activities is the possible reason for the development of human resource outsourcing, and the repeated demand for human resource outsourcing services by enterprises has given human resource outsourcing sufficient development momentum.

3. Universality: the universality of human resource outsourcing, that is, human resource outsourcing activities are not aimed at a certain enterprise, but are satisfied with this service demand, which is the social attribute of human resource outsourcing.

2.3 Another feature

1, biological: unlike any other resources, human resources belong to human beings themselves, which is a "living" resource, closely related to human physiological characteristics and genetic inheritance, and is biological.

2. The times: the quantity and quality of human resources and the improvement of the quality of human resources, that is, the formation of human resources is restricted by the conditions of the times and has the times.

3. Initiative: The initiative of human resources means that human resources are a combination of physical strength and intelligence, with subjective initiative and potential for sustainable development.

4. Duality: Duality means that human resources are both productive and consumptive.

5. Timeliness: Timeliness of human resources means that if human resources are not used for a long time, they will be abandoned and degraded.

6. Sustainability: Human resources are sustainable resources. The use of human resources is not only a development process, but also a process of cultivation, accumulation and creation.

7. Renewable: Human resources are renewable resources, and their regeneration is realized through the process of "consumption-production-consumption-reproduction" of each individual in the population. The regeneration of human resources is not only governed by biological laws, but also influenced by human consciousness and will, the development of human civilization and the restriction of new technological revolution.