Resource management (disambiguation)

Last updated May 05, 2019

Resource management is the deployment of organizational resources when and where they are needed.

In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT) and natural resources.

Resource management may also refer to:

Physical resources

Environmental resource management, the management of human societies interacting with the environment
Natural resource management, the management of natural resources
Water resource management, managing the use of water resources

Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims to ensure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for future human generations, and also maintain ecosystem integrity through considering ethical, economic, and scientific (ecological) variables. Environmental resource management tries to identify factors affected by conflicts that rise between meeting needs and protecting resources. It is thus linked to environmental protection, sustainability and integrated landscape management.

Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations (stewardship).

Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources. It is a sub-set of water cycle management.

People

Human resource management, the management process of an organization's workforce
- Human resource management system, the systems and processes between human resource management and information technology
- Human resource management in public administration, human resource management as it applies to public administration
Crew resource management, a set of training procedures used primarily for improving air safety
- Maintenance resource management, an aircraft maintenance variant on crew resource management
- Single-Pilot Resource Management, an adaptation of Crew Resource Management training to single-pilot operations
Maintenance resource management (MRM) training is an aircraft maintenance variant on crew resource management (CRM). Although the term MRM was used for several years following CRM's introduction, the first governmental guidance for standardized MRM training and its team-based safety approach, appeared when the FAA (U.S.) issued Advisory Circular 120-72, Maintenance Resource Management Training in September, 2000.
Cultural resources management, the management of cultural resources, such as the arts and heritage

Human resource management is the strategic approach to the effective management of people in an organization so that they help the business to gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives. HR is primarily concerned with the management of people within organizations, focusing on policies and on systems. HR departments are responsible for overseeing employee-benefits design, employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal, and Reward management. HR also concerns itself with organizational change and industrial relations, that is, the balancing of organizational practices with requirements arising from collective bargaining and from governmental laws.

A human resources management system (HRMS) or human resources information system (HRIS) is a form of human resources (HR) software that combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of human resources, business processes and data. Human resources software is used by businesses to combine a number of necessary HR functions, such as storing employee data, managing payrolls, recruitment processes, benefits administration, and keeping track of attendance records. It ensures everyday human resources processes are manageable and easy to access. It merges human resources as a discipline and, in particular, its basic HR activities and processes with the information technology field, whereas the programming of data processing systems evolved into standardized routines and packages of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. On the whole, these ERP systems have their origin from software that integrates information from different applications into one universal database. The linkage of its financial and human resource modules through one database is the most important distinction to the individually and proprietarily developed predecessors, which makes this software application both rigid and flexible.

Human resource management in public administration concerns human resource management as it applies specifically to the field of public administration. It is considered to be an in-house structure that ensures unbiased treatment, ethical standards, and promotes a value-based system.

Computing and technology

Resource management (computing), the management of physical or virtual computer components
Radio resource management, the system level control of radio transmission characteristics in wireless communication
Storage resource management, optimizing the efficiency and speed of a storage area network
Electronic resource management, the practices and systems used by libraries to track electronic information resources
Data resource management, an organizational function in information systems and computer science that manages data resources
Distributed resource management, the management of unattended background program execution in computing known as a job scheduler

In computer programming, resource management refers to techniques for managing resources.

Radio resource management (RRM) is the system level management of co-channel interference, radio resources, and other radio transmission characteristics in wireless communication systems, for example cellular networks, wireless local area networks, wireless sensor systems radio broadcasting networks. RRM involves strategies and algorithms for controlling parameters such as transmit power, user allocation, beamforming, data rates, handover criteria, modulation scheme, error coding scheme, etc. The objective is to utilize the limited radio-frequency spectrum resources and radio network infrastructure as efficiently as possible.

In computing, storage resource management (SRM) involves optimizing the efficiency and speed with which a storage area network (SAN) utilizes available drive space.

Legislation

Resource Management Act 1991, a New Zealand law promoting sustainable management of natural and physical resources
Resource Management System, a system of conservation practices and management specified in the United States' 2002 Farm Bill

Other uses

Resource management (gaming), a mechanic in various types of games

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Resource management (disambiguation)

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