DEFINITIONS OF HRM

DEFINITIONS OF HRM

According to Dale Yoder "The management of human resources is viewed as a system in which participants seeks to attain both individual and group goals."

According to Flippo, "HRM is the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance and reproduction of human resources to the end that individual, organizational and societal objectives are accomplished".

According to Ivancevich and Glucck "HRM is the function performed in organizations a facilitates the most effective use of people (employees) to achieve organizational and individual goals.

OBJECTIVES OF HRM

The objectives of HRM are as follows:

1. To help the organization reach its goal: HR department, like other departments is an organization, exists to achieve the goals of the organization first.

 2. To employ the skills and abilities of the workforce efficiently: The primary purpose of HRM

is to make people's strength productivity and to benefit customers, stockholders and employees.

3. To provide the organization with well trained and well motivated employees: HRM requires

that employees be motivated to exert their maximum efforts, that their performance be evaluated properly for results and that they be remunerated on the basis of their contributions to the organization.

4. To increase the fullest the employee's job satisfaction and self actualization: It tries to prompt and stimulate every employee to realise his potential. To this end suitable programme have to designed aimed at improving the quality of work life.

5. To develop and maintain a quality of work: It makes employment in the organisation a desirable personnel and social, situation. Without improvement in the quality of work life, it is difficult to improve organizational performance.

6. To communicate HR policies to all employees: It is the responsibility of HRM to communicate

in the fullest possible sense, tapping ideas, opinions and feelings of customers and others

external public as well as understanding the views of internal human resources.

7. To be ethically and socially responsive to the needs of society: HRM must ensure that organization manage human resource in an ethical and socially responsible manner through ensuring compliances with legal and ethical standards.

 SCOPE OF HRM

The scope of Personnel Management is indeed vast. All major activities in the working life of an employee from the time of his entry into an organization until he leaves the organization come under the preview of Personnel Management. The figure below explains the vast scope of personnel management.

HRM embraces a very wide field of activities. The scope of HRM is so wide and varied that the HR department and the personnel executives typically perform a variety of roles in accordance with the needs of a situation. The HR manager plays multiple roles like the role of a researcher. role of a counsellor, role of a bar gainer, role of a mediator, role of peacemaker, role of a problem solver etc.

IMPORTANCE OF HRM

HRM helps an organization and its people to realise their respective goals thus:

1. At the Enterprise Level

(a) Good human resource practices can help in attracting and retaining the best people in the organization. Planning alerts the company to the types of people it will need in the short medium and long run.

(b) It helps in training people for challenging roles, developing right attitudes towards the job and the company, promoting team spirit among employees and developing loyalty and commitment through appropriate reward schemes.

II. At the Individual Level

(a) It promotes team work and team spirit among employees. 

(b) It offers excellent growth opportunities to people who have the potential to rise.

(c) It allows people to work with diligence and commitment.

III. At the Society Level

(a) Employment opportunities multiply.

(b) Scarce talents are put to best use. Companies that pay and treat people well always race ahead of others and deliver excellent results.

IV. At the National Level

Effective use of human resources helps in exploitation of natural, physical and financial resources in a better way. People with right skills, proper attitudes and appropriate values help the nation get ahead and complete with the best in the world leading to better standard of living and better employment.

CHALLENGES FACED BY HR MANAGER

1. The challenge of HR manager today is to recognise talent and mature the same carefully and achieve significant productivity gains over a period of time. 2. The role of an HR manager is shifting from a protector and screener to the planner and change agent.

3. HR is proactive, fast and considers various times frames in a flexible manner. 4. HR have to believes that the organization assets are its people.

5. HR manager today permits employees to process work and carry out job responsibilities. a free flowing way.

6. Now operations have to controlled by whatever is necessary to succeed and control syste are modified as needed to meet changing conditions.

7. Job design is organic, specialization is replaced by cross training and independent tasks are replaced by teams, encouraging autonomy at various levels.

8. HR manager must focus on partnerships with internal and external customers. 9. HR manager's accountability is on investment centre.

10. HR manager responsibility is on line manager (process).