The document discusses the evolution of human resource management from a focus on personnel matters to strategic investment in employees. It explains that effective HRM involves staffing, training, performance management, compensation, health and safety, and labor relations. Additionally, maintaining an appropriate level of job insecurity can increase work effort, but high insecurity reduces motivation.
2. Prior to 1960s personnel department in any organization
were often perceived as the “health and happiness” of
crews.
Under the old management paradigm, managers were
primarily autocratic,
making all the decisions, and maintaining tight controls
over employees.
Under the new management paradigm, managers are
primarily participative, and focus on leadership by sharing
the management functions.
Managers and employers have good working relationship, as
people are the most important asset. They set objectives
together, and influence each other to bring about change to
continually improve the organization.
People not building or machinery make a company success.
3. View of HR
In the past, some viewed their employees are variable costs of
production, while physical assets are treated as investments.
Current practices in many organizations indicates that employees are
viewed as valuable investments.
Strategists have found that...
having superior production facilities or superior production are usually
not enough to sustain an advantage over competitors.
Physical facilities can be duplicated,
cloned, or reverse-engineered and no
longer provide a sustainable advantage.
Many strategists
....maintainable advantage usually derives from outstanding depth in
selected human skills, logistic capabilities, knowledge bases, or other
service strengths that competitors can not produce.......
Thus, with this perspective, there is recognition of the
importance of having superior human resource.
Contemporary management practices indicate that .....
many leading companies have recognized the importance of Human
resources
and have adopted an investment perspective for the
development of human resource.
4. Manager’s Human Resource Management Jobs
• Management process
– The five basic functions of planning, organizing,
staffing, leading, and controlling.
• Human resource management (HRM)
– The policies and practices involved in carrying
out the “people” or human resource aspects of
a management position, including recruiting,
screening, training, rewarding, and appraising.
They thought how to manage people for better out put
5. Line manager and Staff manager
• Line manager
– A manager who is authorized to direct the work of
subordinates and is responsible for accomplishing the
organization’s tasks.
• Staff manager
– A manager who assists and advises line managers.
6. Line Managers’ HRM Responsibilities
1. Placing the right person on the right job
2. Starting new employees in the organization (orientation)
3. Training employees for jobs new to them
4. Improving the job performance of each person
5. Gaining creative cooperation and developing smooth
working relationships
6. Interpreting the firm’s policies and procedures
7. Controlling labor costs
8. Developing the abilities of each person
9. Creating and maintaining department morale
10.Protecting employees’ health and physical condition
7. In small organizations, line managers may carry out all
these personnel tasks unassisted.
But as the organization grows, they need the assistance,
specialized knowledge, and advice of a separate human
resource staff.
The human resource department provides this specialized
assistance.
Even Organizations with as few as 200 employees usually
have Human resource manager Griffin 8th edn,p438
One HR employee per 100 employee Desslar 12th edn p8
8. Human Resource Manager’s Duties
In providing this specialized assistance, the human resource manager
carries out three distinct functions:
1. A line function. The human resource manager directs the activities
of the people in his or her own department.
2. A coordinative function. The human resource manager also ensures
that line managers are implementing the firm’s human resource policies
and practices is call functional authority (for example, adhering to its
sexual harassment policies).
3. Staff (assist and advise) functions. Assisting and advising line
managers is the HEART of the human resource manager’s job.
He or she advises the CEO; so, the CEO can better understand the
personnel aspects of the company’s strategic options.
Assists in hiring, training, evaluating, rewarding, counseling,
promoting, and firing employees. It administers the various benefit
programs (health and accident insurance, retirement, vacation, and so on).
It helps line managers comply with equal employment and occupational
safety laws, and plays an important role in handling grievances and
labor relations.
9. It carries out an innovator role, by providing up-to-date information on
current trends and new methods for better utilizing the company’s
employees (or human resources ).
It plays an employee advocacy role, by representing the interests of
employees within the framework of its primary obligation to senior
management.
Although human resource managers generally can’t manipulate line
authority, they are likely to exert implied authority.
This is because line managers know the HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
has top management’s ear in areas like testing and affirmative action.
HRM makes a balance between two primary responsibilities:
(1) Assisting organization in its strategic direction and
representation
(2) Advocating for the organization’s employees
10. Constant balancing of efficiency and effectiveness for employer
and equity for employee
Employee Employer
Equity
Efficiency & Effective
(Organizational Justice) (Legal)
HR
A Difficult Task for HRM
HRM makes a balance between two primary responsibilities:
(1) Assisting organization in its strategic direction and representation
(2) Advocating for the organization’s employees
11. Personnel Mistakes
• Hire the wrong person for the job
• Experience high turnover
• Have your people not doing their best
• Waste time with useless interviews
• Have your company in court because of discriminatory
actions
• Have your company for unsafe practices
• Have some employees think their salaries are unfair and
inequitable relative to others in the organization
• Allow a lack of training to undermine your department’s
effectiveness
• Commit any unfair labor practices
12. Examples of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SPECIALTIES include:
•Recruiters. Search for qualified job applicants.
•Equal employment opportunity (EEO) coordinators. Investigate and
resolve EEO grievances; examine organizational practices for potential
violations; and compile and submit EEO reports.
•Job analysts. Collect and examine information about jobs to prepare
job descriptions.
•Compensation managers. Develop compensation plans and handle
the employee benefits program.
•Training specialists. Plan, organize, and direct training activities.
•Labor relations specialists. Advise management on all aspects of
union management relations.
14. There are six functional are as associated with effective
HRM:
1. Staffing,
2. HR development,
3. Performance management,
4. Compensation,
5. Safety and health,
6. Employee and labor relations.
Human Resource Management Functions
15. 1. Staffing:
is the Process through which an organization ensures that it always
has the proper number of employees with the appropriate skills in
the right jobs, at the right time, to achieve organizational objectives.
Staffing involves job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment
and selection
2. Human resource development (HRD):
Major HRM functions consisting not only of training and
development but also of individual career planning and
development activities, organization development, and performance
appraisal.
3. Performance management (PM):
Goal-oriented process directed toward ensuring that organizational
processes are in place to maximize the productivity of employees,
teams, and ultimately, the organization.
16. 4. Compensation:
The term compensation includes the total of all rewards provided to
employees in return for their services. The rewards may be one or a
combination of the following:
Direct Financial Compensation (Core Compensation): Pay that a
person receives in the form of wages, salaries, commissions, and
bonuses.
Indirect Financial Compensation (employee benefits): All financial
rewards that are not included in direct compensation, such as paid
vacations, sick leave, holidays, and medical insurance.
Nonfinancial Compensation: Satisfaction that a person receives
from the job itself or from the psychological or physical
environment in which the person works.
17. 5. Safety and Health:
safety involves protecting employees from injuries
caused by work-related accidents. Health refers to the
employees’ freedom from physical or emotional illness.
6. Employee and Labor Relations:
Internal employee relations comprise the HRM
activities associated with the movement of employees
within the organization such as promotions, demotion,
termination, and resignation.
19. Vice-president
Employment
Manger
Compensation &
benefit Manger
Training &
development Manger
Employee Relations
Manger
Sample of HRM Organization
•Recruiting
•Employment
planning
Selected Job Activities
• Job Analysis
• Job evaluation
• Salary planning
• Training
• Career
development
• Organizational
development
• Employee
Complaints
• Service award
• Communication
Program
21. Work
Effort
Job Insecurity
Low Level Moderate Level High Level
With an appropriate level of job insecurity, employees may work harder and this work
effort increases as insecurity escalates from low to moderate levels but it
declines with high levels of insecurity.
This relation is an average tendency, there may be exceptions.
Work Effort and Job Security Relationship
22. Investment perspective of Human resources
Human resources Investment Consideration Factor
Investment on Training and Development
Investment Practice for Improved Retention
•Organizational Cultures Emphasizing Interpersonal Relationship Values
One of the most important determinants of employee retention is the organization’s
culture. Firm with cultures characterized by interpersonal relationship values (respect
for people and team orientation) and other task value (A survey of 904 pers, reported 14
months more than task value). “Fear less Culture” in which employee can speak up to
challenge without being harmed. Retention Improves:
•Positive relation with superior
•Absence of conflict-laden relationship
•Having input into decisions
•Less emphasis on formal authority
•Information sharing
•Support employees