What is Human Resource Management?

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The main purpose of this article is to explain what HR managers do, and to describe more fully how today HR function is helping companies meet the challenges of globalized competition. We’ll see that HR management – recruiting, hiring, training, compensating, appraising, and developing employees – is part of every manager’s job. And we’ll see that HR is also a distinct function, with an HR manager assisting the firm’s other managers in many important ways.

The main topics we’ll cover include manager’s HRM jobs, crucial global and competitive trends, and how HR managers use Technology and modern JR measurement systems to create the high-performance work system employers need today.

*The Manager’s Human Resource Management Jobs

We agree that all managers perform certain basic functions, which are planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. In total, they represent Management Process. Some of the specific activities involved in each function include:

Easy to remember: POSLC

1. Planning: Establishing goals and standards, developing rules and procedure and developing plans and forecasts.

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2. Organizing: giving each subordinate a specific task, establishing departments, delegating authority to subordinates, establishing channels of authority and communication, coordinating the work of subordinates.

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3. Staffing: determining what type of people should be hired, recruiting prospective employees, selecting employees, compensating employees, evaluating performance, counseling employees, training and developing employees.

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4. Leading: Getting others to get the job done, maintaining morale, motivating subordinates.

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5. Controlling: setting standards such as sales quotas, quality standards, or production levels, checking to see how actual performance compares with these standards, taking corrective action as needed.

We are going to focus on one of these functions in this article – the staffing, personnel management, or human resource management (HRM) function.

Human Resource Management is a process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns. The topics we’ll discuss should therefore provide you with the concepts and techniques you need to carry out the “people” or personnel aspects of your management job.

These include:

® Conducting job analyse (determining the nature of each employee’s job)

® Planning labor needs and recruiting job candidates

® Selecting job candidates

® Orienting and training new employees

® Managing wages and salaries (compensating employees)

® Providing incentives and benefits

® Appraising performance

® Communicating (interviewing, counseling, disciplining)

® Training and developing managers

® Building employee commitment.

And what a manager should know about:

® Equal opportunity and affirmative action

® Employee health and safety

® Handling grievances and labor relations

What are the policies and practices involved in carrying out the Human Resource aspects?

® The policies and practices involved in carrying out the “people” or Human Resource aspects of a Management position, including recruiting, screening, training, rewarding, and appraising.