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Managing Human Element at Work

Notes 14. The .................. has become a challenge for the HR manager.
15. .................. plan, organize, and direct a wide range of training activities.

1.8 Summary

• Human resource management encompasses those activities designed to provide for
and coordinate the human resources of an organization.
• The HRM is “the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement,
development, compensation, integration, maintenance and reproduction of human
resources to the end that individual, organizational and societal objectives are
accomplished”.
• Human resource management is the function performed in organizations that facilitates
the most effective use of people (employees) to achieve organizational and individual
goals.
• The primary objective of HRM is to promote the effectiveness of employees at this
work place.
• Organizational restructuring is used to make the organization competitive. As a part
of organizational changes, many organizations have right sized themselves in various
ways such as eliminating layers of managers, closing facilities, merging with other
organizations, or out placing workers.
• HRM function can transform its outlook from a traditional to a modern one: from
being functionally-oriented internally focused, reactive, activity-driven, centralised
and control-oriented to being business-oriented, customer-focussed, proactive,
effectiveness-driven, decentralised and empowerment-oriented.

1.9 Keywords

Human resource management: It is defined as that field of management which has to do with
planning, organizing and controlling the functions of procuring, developing, maintaining
and utilizing a labour force.
Human resource planning: It is defined as the process of assessing the organization’s HR
needs in the light of organizational goals and making plans to ensure that a competent,
stable work force is employed.
Human resource policies: It is systems of codified decisions, established by an organization,
to support administrative personnel functions, performance management, employee relations
and resource planning.
Organization development: It is the modern approach to management of change and human
resource development.
Personnel policies: It is continuing guidelines on the approach the organization intends to
adopt in managing its people.

1. Draw flowchart for the HRM policies in education institute.

2. Survey in your neighbourhood institutes and prepares a report on
HRM policies they are using.

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