Unit-1

Human Resource Management

Five things that the learner must focus on
to build her/his Strategic HR capabilities
• Positive Thinking
• People-Centricity
• Personal Vision
• Developing EI and Self-Leadership
• Powerful/Confident/Self-belief; Not disinterested
Human Resource Management (HRM)
Human Resource Management (HRM)
The design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective
and efficient use of human talent to accomplish the organizational goals.

“HR should be defined not by what it does, but by what it delivers.”

David Ulrich
Human Resource Management
• It is a management function that helps organization in recruiting,
selecting, and training, developing and managing its members.

• HRM is concern with the management of people in the organization

from recruitment to retirement.
Human Resource Management
• According to Flippo, “human resource management is the planning ,
organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement,
development, compensation, integration, maintenance, and separation
of human resource to the end that individual, organizational and social
objectives are accomplished.”
Objectives of HRM
• To help the organization reach its goals.
• To ensure effective utilization and maximum development of human
resource.
• To ensure respect for human beings. To identify and satisfy the needs of
individuals.
• To ensure reconciliation of individual goals with those of the organization.
• To achieve and maintain high moral among employees.
• To provide the organization with well-trained and well-motivated
employees.
Scope of HRM
Scope of HRM
Functions of HRM
Evolution of HRM
System Approach to HRM
Changing Business Environment & Role of HRM
• ‘Environment' here refers to the "totality of all factors which influence
both the organization and personnel sub-system“.
Changing Business Environment: What has happened in the World
of Work?
Changing Business Environment & Role of HRM
• Each of these factors separately or in combination can influence the
HR function of any organization.

• The job of a HR manager is to balance the demands and expectations

of the external groups with the internal requirements and achieve the
assigned goals in an efficient and effective manner.
Changing Business Environment and Important
HRM Issues
HRM Challenges
• Economic and Technological Change
• Occupational Shifts
• Global Competition
• Workforce Availability and Quality
• Growth in Contingent Workforce
• Demographics and Diversity
• Aging Workforce
• Work life Balance
• Organizational Restructuring

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Changing Business Environment and Role of HRM:
Management Activities

Source: Dessler, G. (2002)

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HRM Issues
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• It is concerned with people issues and practices that affect or are
affected by the strategic plan of the organization.
Objectives of SHRM
• To ensure the availability of a skilled, committed, and highly
motivated workforce in the organization to achieve sustained
competitive advantage.

• To provide direction to the organization so that both the business

needs of the organization and the individual and collective needs of its
workforce are met. This is achieved by developing and implementing
HR practices that are strategically aligned.
Important Websites
Associations:
• Academy of Management https://aom.org/
• Employee Benefit Research Institute https://www.ebri.org/
• Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) https://www.hrci.org/
• American Management Association https://www.amanet.org/
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) https://www.shrm.org/
US Department of Labor Agencies:
• U.S. Department of Labor www.dol.gov
• Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/
Other Government Agencies:
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) https://www.eeoc.gov/
• Ministry of Labor and Employment, India https://labour.gov.in/

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Discussion