Mba Meade Term Notes
Week 1
What is human resource management?
As we said that HRM is the management of people working in an organization, it is a subject related to human.
For simplicity, we can say that it is the management of humans or people. HRM is a managerial function that tries to match an organization’s needs to the skills and abilities of its employees. Human Resource Management is responsible for how people are managed in the organizations. It is responsible for bringing people in organization helping them perform their work, compensating them for their work and solving problems that arise. Functions of HRM
Basic functions that all managers perform: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. HR management involves the policies and practices needed to carry out the staffing (or people) function of management. HRM department regardless of the organization’s size must perform following human resource management functions… • Staffing (HR planning, recruitment and selection) • Human resource development • Compensation and benefits • Safety and health • Employee and labor relations • Records maintaining, etc. • HR research (providing a HR information base, designing and implementing employee communication system). • Interrelationship of HR functions.
Factors Contributing to the Growing Importance of HRM a. Accommodation to workers ' needs
Workers are demanding that organizations accommodate their personal needs by instituting such programs as flexible work schedules, parental leave, child-care and elder-care assistance, and job sharing. The human resource department plays a central role in establishing and implementing policies designed to reduce the friction between organizational demands and family responsibilities. b. Increased complexity of the Manager’s job
Management has become an increasingly complex and demanding job for many reasons, including foreign competition, new
What is human resource management?
As we said that HRM is the management of people working in an organization, it is a subject related to human.
For simplicity, we can say that it is the management of humans or people. HRM is a managerial function that tries to match an organization’s needs to the skills and abilities of its employees. Human Resource Management is responsible for how people are managed in the organizations. It is responsible for bringing people in organization helping them perform their work, compensating them for their work and solving problems that arise. Functions of HRM
Basic functions that all managers perform: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. HR management involves the policies and practices needed to carry out the staffing (or people) function of management. HRM department regardless of the organization’s size must perform following human resource management functions… • Staffing (HR planning, recruitment and selection) • Human resource development • Compensation and benefits • Safety and health • Employee and labor relations • Records maintaining, etc. • HR research (providing a HR information base, designing and implementing employee communication system). • Interrelationship of HR functions.
Factors Contributing to the Growing Importance of HRM a. Accommodation to workers ' needs
Workers are demanding that organizations accommodate their personal needs by instituting such programs as flexible work schedules, parental leave, child-care and elder-care assistance, and job sharing. The human resource department plays a central role in establishing and implementing policies designed to reduce the friction between organizational demands and family responsibilities. b. Increased complexity of the Manager’s job
Management has become an increasingly complex and demanding job for many reasons, including foreign competition, new