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    HR: Line Function or Staff Function?: The Dilemma Continues

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    The HR manager plays both line and staff functions. As a line function, the HR manager oversees the HR department and ensures tasks are completed. As a staff function, the HR manager acts in an advisory role to assist line managers. Specifically, the HR manager helps with recruitment, training, compensation, labor relations, and employee safety while line managers have more direct authority over employees. Overall, the role of HR straddles both line and staff responsibilities.

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    HR: Line Function or Staff Function?: The Dilemma Continues

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    The HR manager plays both line and staff functions. As a line function, the HR manager oversees the HR department and ensures tasks are completed. As a staff function, the HR manager acts in an advisory role to assist line managers. Specifically, the HR manager helps with recruitment, training, compensation, labor relations, and employee safety while line managers have more direct authority over employees. Overall, the role of HR straddles both line and staff responsibilities.

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    The HR manager plays both line and staff functions. As a line function, the HR manager oversees the HR department and ensures tasks are completed. As a staff function, the HR manager acts in an advisory role to assist line managers. Specifically, the HR manager helps with recruitment, training, compensation, labor relations, and employee safety while line managers have more direct authority over employees. Overall, the role of HR straddles both line and staff responsibilities.

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    HR: Line Function or Staff Function?: The Dilemma Continues

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    The HR manager plays both line and staff functions. As a line function, the HR manager oversees the HR department and ensures tasks are completed. As a staff function, the HR manager acts in an advisory role to assist line managers. Specifically, the HR manager helps with recruitment, training, compensation, labor relations, and employee safety while line managers have more direct authority over employees. Overall, the role of HR straddles both line and staff responsibilities.

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    hr: Line function or Staff Function?

    The Dilemma
    Continues…
    Functions of HR Manager
    • 1. A Line Function: An HR manager possesses a line authority over his own
    department to accomplish the task and roles assigned to each employee of
    the department. And since the majority of the decision is trickled down
    from the corporate level, he actually exudes such power.

    • 2. A Coordinative Function: An HR manager is also a coordinator of all the


    decision, activities in the personnel area. This is referred to as functional
    control.

    • 3. A Staff Function: This is basically an advisory role played by the manager


    whereby he only assists line managers, but that does not mean his advice
    shall be taken finally. It all depends on the discretion of the line manager.
    Such a function involves assisting on areas such as training, evaluating,
    rewarding, counseling, promoting, and firing of employees, etc. Many a
    times, HR managers also update the line managers as well as top
    management regarding the current trends and new methods of solving
    problems.
    Staff functions of hr
    There are five roles of the HR which bring out the staff role of the HR in the
    modern times. These Five roles are :

    * HR as a coach: Enable professional growth and to help


    executives achieve their full potential.
    * HR as an architect: Identifying what are the cultures and
    capabilities required to enable the firm's ideas to create
    competitive success.
    * HR as a builder: Craft HR practices to ensure right
    behaviour.
    * HR as a facilitator: Making change happen & sustain
    change at 3 levels: individual, team/group, organization.
    * HR as a leader: Act as role models and lead others.
    HR functions: Line-Staff Dichotomy

    HR LINE STAFF
    FUNCTION
    Recruitment & - Assist job analyst by listing specific duties -- Write job description and job
    and responsibilities of the job in question specification
    Selection - Develop selection tests - Develop promotion tables
    - Interview candidates - Develop selection criteria
    - Finalize appointments

    Training & -Orient employees regarding the company -Design training programmes &
    and job orientation activities
    Development -Use appraisal forms to appraise -Develop performance appraisal tools
    performance and maintain records of appraisals.
    - Conduct training and evaluate the same - Assess career progress and advise
    regarding career options.

    Compensation -Assist HR by providing information regarding -Conduct job evaluation procedures


    the nature and relative worth of each job -Conduct salary surveys to determine
    -Calculate the nature & amounts of incentive how other firms are paying
    -Decide on the package of benefits and -Advise regarding financial benefits &
    services pay plan alternatives
    HR functions: Line-Staff Dichotomy

    HR LINE STAFF
    FUNCTION
    Labour - Consistently apply the terms of the labor --Diagnose underlying causes of
    agreement labor discontent
    Relations - Ensure that the firm's grievance process is -Train line managers regarding the
    functioning interpretation of contract terms
    - Work with HR in negotiating the collective - Advise managers regarding how to
    bargaining agreement. handle grievances and assist all
    parties in reaching agreement
    regarding grievances.

    Employee -Prepare accident reports promptly and -Administering occupational safety &
    accurately health through proper training
    Security & -Continually direct employees to safe work -Develop fair treatment process &
    Safety habits train managers to use it.
    - Assure employees a fair treatment in terms - Assess jobs to develop safe practice
    of discipline, dismissal & secutrity rules & use safe apparatus.

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