Why is HR management and its concepts and techniques important to All Managers?

Perhaps it’s easier to answer this by listing some of the personnel mistakes you DON’T want to make while managing. For example, you don’t want to:

• Hire the wrong person for the job
• Experience high turnover
• Have your people not doing their best
• Waste your time with useless interviews
• Have your company taken to court because of discriminatory actions
• Have your company cited under Federal Occupational Safety laws for unsafe practices
• Have some employees think their salaries are unfair and inequitable relative to others in the organization
• Allow a lack of training to undermine your department’s effectiveness
• Commit any unfair labor practices

Carefully reading this note (in http://www.kishorshrestha.blogspot.com) will help you avoid mistakes like these. And, more important, it can help ensure that you get the right results – through people.

Remember, you can do everything right as a manager – lay brilliant plans, draw clear organization charts, set up modern assembly lines, and use sophisticated accounting controls – but still fail, by hiring the worn people or by not motivating subordinates.

On the other hand, many managers – presidents, generals, governors, and supervisors – have been successful even with inadequate plans, organizations, or controls. They were successful because they had the knack of hiring the right people for the right jobs and motivating, appraising, and developing them. Remember as you read this NOTE that getting RESULTS is the bottom line of managing, and that, as a manager, you will have to get those results through people. As one company president summed up:

For many years it has been said that capital is the bottleneck for a developing industry. I don’t think this any longer holds true.

I think it’s the work force and the company’s inability to recruit and maintain a good work force that does constitute the bottleneck for production.

I don’t know of any major project backed by good ideas, vigor, and enthusiasm that has been stopped by a shortage of cash. I don’t know of industries whose growth has been partly stopped or hampered because they can’t maintain an efficient and enthusiastic labor force, and I think this will hold true even more in the future.

Lessons for my own good (not meant for others)