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Human Resource Management

Notes 5. Most Indian organizations being small and medium sized, small size of trade union, poor
performance and poor financial strength further weakened the trade union.
6. Nature of linkage between union and political parties varies, allowing different degree of
autonomy to union by the parties.

Stage VI: Professional Tradition (1990- till Date)

With the passage of time, personnel management has become mature and professionalized.
Professional management is that management where decision-making rests with professional
managers, where there has been a divorce between capital and control and where owners of
business are functionless owners.

Specialized formal education: It requires advanced, specialized formal education and training.
Besides, they should also have specialized in some discipline of management (like production,
finance, marketing, personnel, etc.)
At this stage, personnel management became a professional field of management.
Academic qualification of Personnel Manager: An occupation in order to be called as a profession
should possess advanced specialized formal education and training.
1. Qualification varies from organization to organization and from one state to another state
of a country. It has undergone several changes from time to time. The list of qualification
includes Post Graduate degree or diploma in Social Science, Sociology, Social Work,
Personnel Management and Industrial Relation, Labour Welfare, Labour Laws, MBA with
specialization in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations.
2. There is no specific educational qualification prescribed for the post of Personnel
Management in India. Technical managers without any experience or qualification are
posted as Personnel Managers in public sector organizations like Indian railways, BHEL,
SAIL. There has been increased importance to acquire knowledge or degree for the post of
Human Resource manager.
Following are the characteristics of professional institution:

1. Professional bodies: A profession is organized as a body with its own experts. The
professionals have developed a number of administrative societies, associations and
institutions, which have a large membership of those who have qualified in personnel
affairs. The National Institute of Personnel Management, the Indian Labour Economics
Society, All India Management Association, International Personnel Management
Association and American Society of Personnel Administration are some of such
bodies.
2. Members of the profession must maintain at all times an attitude towards their work
and society, be interested, in continued acquisition of skills and knowledge, have a
sense of trusteeship, individual initiative and a right to expert and received financial
recognition.

3. Code of Ethics: Various professions like Medicine, Accountancy have ethical codes. But the
personnel profession does not have such ethical codes.
It cannot, therefore, be concluded, from the above analysis, that personnel management in India
completely possesses the characteristics to be called as a profession. The situation may change in
the years ahead, where organization requirements for professionally qualified people might
increase.

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