HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT

Managing humans is at the heart of almost all the real-life management ‘problems’.
What it takes to ‘manage’ humans? Why humans are a ‘resource’ and what makes
them special? The purpose of this course is to bring out issues involved in the
management of human resources (HRM), both from current theory as well as practice.
The course will examine humans at work and discuss various aspects which are basic
to human motivation at work and in fulfilling career aspirations within organisations.
HRM involves various issues right from selection-placement to performance


Human resource a close parallel to chess. Organizations may have their line and staff functions in place, but without clear HR policies, all efforts would be like taking potshots in the dark.

As in the game of chess, you recruit people for various business functions; some niche and some generic. Every employee of your organization is an important cog in the wheel. If you follow the right recruitment practices, each employee can become an asset for your organization.

The role of HR is thus an intricate web of hiring, recruiting, training, promoting, and mentoring. It also involves unpleasant activities like performance appraisal, layoffs, and employee disciplining. Since human resource management has everything to do with people related issues, HR professionals also conduct behavioral assessment, leadership development, talent management, and knowledge management.

Its features include:

* Organizational management
* Personnel administration
* Manpower management
* Industrial management

But these traditional expressions are becoming less common for the theoretical discipline. Sometimes even employee and industrial relations are confusingly listed as synonyms, although these normally refer to the relationship between management and workers and the behavior of workers in companies.

The theoretical discipline is based primarily on the assumption that employees are individuals with varying goals and needs, and as such should not be thought of as basic business resources, such as trucks and filing cabinets. The field takes a positive view of workers, assuming that virtually all wish to contribute to the enterprise productively, and that the main obstacles to their endeavors are lack of knowledge, insufficient training, and failures of process.

Human Resource Management(HRM) is seen by practitioners in the field as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach. Its techniques force the managers of an enterprise to express their goals with specificity so that they can be understood and undertaken by the workforce, and to provide the resources needed for them to successfully accomplish their assignments. As such, HRM techniques, when properly practiced, are expressive of the goals and operating practices of the enterprise overall. HRM is also seen by many to have a key role in risk reduction within organisations.
 
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