What is Human Resources Management

 

Figure 1: Human Resources Management (Source: (123RF.com, 2021)

 

Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) is a role in organizations that aims to maximize employee productivity in support of their strategic goals.

Human resource management (HRM) is basically concerned with how people are handled inside organizations, with an emphasis on policies and procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HRM has many definitions and some of them are as follows;

 

Figure 2: Definitions of HRM (Source: (Collings & Wood, 2009)

 

Responsibility of HR departments

•         Employee recruitment
•         Training and development
•         Performance appraisal
•         Rewarding
•         Industrial relations maintaining organizational practices with government regulations/ laws.

 

Practices of the HRM

Following are the lists of the functions of HR (Ulrich, 1996)

•            Aligning HR and business strategy
•            Re-engineering organization processes
•            Listening and responding to employees
•            Managing transformation and change

 

Conclusion

Human Resources Management (HRM) is an important function in the organization where manages all employees’ rights according the government regulation with a strategy aligning to organizations goals and objectives. The HRM function takes responsibility of an employee from the time an employee is recruited and till the employee leaves the organization. The HRM department maintains all records of the employee and maintains the privacy of each of the records.    

 

 

References

 

Collings, D. G. & Wood, G., 2009. Human Resource Management: A critical approach. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Ulrich, D., 1996. Human Resource Champions. The next agenda for adding value and delivering results.. s.l.:Harvard business School Press.