Assignment 5: Why do you think HRM is included in the BSCS/BSIT curriculum?

The Human Resources Management function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies.

I think that Human Resource Management is included in the IT/CS curriculum because as students who are aiming to be professionals, we should be aware of the personnel policies which conform to current regulations. We should also be aware of our benefits and rights as a personnel working in a corporation or a company. I think this is included because in the future we will be working in companies and human resource is a vital element for a company to survive. And in order to globally competitive IT professional we ought to have knowledge about Human Resource.