HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

LECTURE 1
Miss SADIA ZAIB
REFERENCE MATERIALS
• Managing human resources by Susan E.
Jackson, Randall S. Schuler And Steve
Werner, SOUTH WESTERN COLLEGE
11th edition (June 16, 2011).

• Management of Human Resources by Gary

dessler , carolin Rekar, Pearson education
Canada, 3rd edition ( February 28,2010).
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management is also a

function of management, concerned with
hiring, motivating and maintaining people in
an organization.

It focuses on people in the organization.

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• Organizations does not only consist of building,

machines or inventories. It is people they manage
and staff the organization.
• HRM applies management principles in
procuring, developing, maintaining people in the
organization.
• Aims at integrated decision making and decisions
on different aspects of employees are consistent
with other HR decisions.
• HR Decisions must influence effectiveness of
the organization leading to better service to
customer and high quality product and services
at reasonable price.
• It is not confined to business establishment
only, HRM is applicable also to the non
business organization, like government
department, education, health care etc.
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• Organizations are human associations.

Managing people is an important aspect of
managing an organization.
• Organization needs people and people needs
organization. It is a people who staff, direct,
control organization.
• Human resource management is concerned with the
people dimensions in organization. It Is an essential
function of management.
DEFINITION

• Human Resource Management is a series of

integrated decisions that form the employment
relationship their quality contributes to the
ability of the organisations and the employees
to achieve their objectives.
Milkovich and Boudreau
DEFINITION

 Human Resource Management is the

planning, organizing, directing and
controlling of the procurement, development,
compensation, integration, maintenance and
separation of human resources to the end that
individual, organizational, and social objectives
are accomplished.
- Edwin B. Flippo
SCOPE OF HRM
Nature
Introduction

Prospects Procurement

HRM
Industrial
Remuneration
Relations

Maintenance Motivation
CHARACTERISTICS OFHRM

• Human focus
• Management function
• Pervasive
• Continuous commitment
• Dynamic
• System
• Mutuality-oriented
OBJECTIVE OFHRM

• Goal Achievement
• Personal Goal
• Functional Goal
• Organizational Goal
• Societal Goal
COMPONENT OFHRM

• Acquisition
• Development
• Utilization
• Maintenance
HRM ENVIRONMENT
• Internal Environment
• Organizational goals and policies
• Organizational culture
• Reward System
• Labor Unions
• Other Organizational Activities
• External Environment
• Political legal
• Technology
• Socio-cultural forces
• Economic forces
IMPORTANCE OF HRM
 Human Resource Management is important to all
managers despite their various functions because of
the following reasons:
• Hire the right person for the job
• Low attrition rate
• Ensure people do their best
• Time saved in not conducting useless interviews
Avoid legal action for any discrimination
• Safety laws are not ignored
• Equity towards employee in relation to salary etc.
• Effective training
• Avoid unfair labour practices
CHALLENGES OFHRM
• Globalization – Globalization refers to
tendency of firm to extend their sales or
manufacturing for new market abroad.
• Technological changes (advances) –
Technology is changing rapidly. Organization
must keep up pace with technological changes
and implement them in the workplace.
• Nature of work – Work must be identified.
• Workforce diversity – HR management
should take care of varied labor force. In the
diversified workforce, HR professional must
ensure that diverse group are managed and
treated equitably in organization.
• Legal trends -Every employees should treat
equally in organization
THANKS