MHC605
Human Resource Management
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Assessment: “HRM functions must be integrated with each other and with strategic issues if they are to make a contribution to HR outcomes or the ‘bottom line’ for the organisation. Discuss this statement, with reference to relevant HRM literature”.
Student: 201312612
Due date: 21/02/2013
Lecturer: Sandhy Massie
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The Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School
Introduction
This paper was developed by the student Bernardo Mateus, for the subject of Human Resources Management, with the porpoise of commenting the following statement:
“HRM functions must be integrated with each other and with strategic issues if they are to make a contribution to HR outcomes or the ‘bottom line’ for the organisation.”
Being so, throughout this essay, I will be going through a brief definition of “organisation” and how the importance of the Human Resources Department in every industry, has grown in the last years.
I will be also describing the various Human Resources functions and strategic issues, and explaining how they must connect with each other in order to achieve results compatible with the organisation’s bottom line.
Part I – History of Human Resources Management
Professor Carter McNamara describes an organisation as a person or a group of individuals that intentionally organised in order to achieve one or various common goals.
Being so, all organisations regardless of the dimension or porpoise, have human resources, and those human resources are all different, have different needs and require a different management, in order to achieve in the most efficient way the goals of the organisation (McNamara, n.d.).
But this hasn’t been always seen like that, In the past, employees and HR departments were regarded as necessary but expensive overheads, the