Human resources refer to the sum of the working-age population, the population below working age and the population above working age who have the ability to work 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.

Human resources, also known as labor resources or labor force, refers to the total population that can promote the whole economic and social development and have the ability to work. Economics generally refers to all the elements put into production activities to create material wealth as resources, including human resources, material resources, financial resources, information resources, time resources and so on. Among them, human resource is the most precious resource and the first resource.

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Characteristics of human resources:

1, initiative

People have subjective initiative, can purposefully carry out activities and purposefully transform the external material world. Its initiative is reflected in three aspects.

2. Duality

Different from any other resources, human resources are life resources owned by human beings and exist in human bodies, so human resources are both producers and consumers. Human resources are rich in knowledge, which makes them have great potential and unparalleled high added value of other resources.

Step 3 be timely

Human resources are different from general resources, such as mineral resources. Mineral resources can generally be stored for a long time, and the quality will not be reduced if they are not used. On the other hand, if human resources are stored and not used, they will be abandoned and degraded.

4. Sociality

Human resources are in a specific society and era, and different social forms and different cultural backgrounds will reflect and influence people's values, behaviors and ways of thinking. The sociality of human resources requires paying special attention to the influence of social and political system, national policies, laws and regulations and cultural environment in the development process.

5. Continuity

The continuity of human resources development means that human resources can be continuously developed, not only the process of using human resources is the process of development, but also the process of training, accumulation and creation.

6. reproducibility

Human resources are renewable resources, which can be regenerated through the continuous replacement and renewal of individuals in the population and the process of "consumption-production-consumption-reproduction" of labor force.

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