The function include the most vital aspects of personnel management- leadership, justice determination, task specialisation (job and organisation design), staffing, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation and reward, collective bargaining, and organisation development.

Strategic goals are important because they: Drive priority setting, resource allocation, capability requirements and budgeting activities. Inform individual and team objectives used to focus and align the efforts of all employees. Inform the marketing, operations, IT and human resources plans for the coming years.

The sequential interview takes the one-to-one a step further and involves a series of interview, usually utilizing the strength and knowledgebase of each interviewer, so that each interviewer can ask questions in relation to his or her subject area of each candidate, as the candidate moves from room to room.

Labour productivity. represents the total volume of output (measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product, GDP) produced per unit of labour (measured in terms of the number of employed persons) during a. given time reference period.