The Human Resources Management (HRM) 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. Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) have to carry out these activities themselves because they can\'t yet afford part- or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have -- and are aware of -- personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have.

Note that some people distinguish a difference between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development, a profession). Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of organizations, including, e.g.. career development, training, organization development, etc.

There is a long-standing argument about where HR-related functions should be organized into large organizations, e.g.. "should HR be in the Organization Development department or the other way around?"

The HRM function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change over the past 20-30 years. Many years ago, large organizations looked to the "Personnel Department," mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. More recently, organizations consider the "HR Department" as playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner.

Employee n. 雇员
Function n. 功能,函数,重大聚会vi.
Variety n. . 多样,种类,杂耍
Staff n. 全体人员,同事n. 杆,棒vt. 配备员工
Personnel n. 人员,职员a. 个人的,人事的
Benefit v.& n. 利益v. 获益
Manual n.& a. a. 手工的,体力的n. 手册,指南
Career n. 生涯,职业
Tremendous a. 巨大的,惊人的
Capability n. 能力,才能,性能,容量
Fulfill v. 完成,履行vt. 履行,完成
Manner n. 样子,礼貌,风格,方式

In other words
1). I got fired.
2). I got the boot.
3). I got the ax.
4). I got sacked./ I got the sack.
5). They kicked me out.
6). My boss showed me the door yesterday.
7). I was canceled.
8). I was laid off.
9). The boss told me that I don\'t have to come in tomorrow, or any other day.　
10). My boss told me to find a "better" job. 　

HR slang
As a HR professional, there are some useful slang that can be very handy in your daily work. Let’s check them out.
Hey, what are you up to? I’m waiting for your shift chart for days!
No matter what you think, the bottom line is we are not transferring Jerry to Guangzhou.
The new CFO was sent to bring the company out of the red.
He suggested we should go to have night snack together after graveyard shift.
I refuse to work overtime during the weekend.
If you pay me double time, I will do it.
I am only a regular 9-to-5er.
Some workers called in sick to have a strike.
I just heard that seven people are going be laid off next month.
Cisco issues a profit warning, plans layoffs.
Cindy, are you in the middle of something? I need you to go over these candidates’ resumes with me.