ASSIGNMENT

Managing Human Resources

Managing Human Resources

Introduction

To begin this paper, it is only prudent that Human Resource Management as a concept is highlighted briefly. According to Armstrong (2012) Human Resource Management is defined as a strategic and rational approach of managing the most valued assets of an organization; its employees. These employees or the human capital of the firm contributes to its long term success and ability to attain all its goals and objectives. Conversely, Haslinda (2009) comments that numerous definitions have been proposed to describe Human Resource Management (HRM) by various scholars and HR practitioners over the years. However, the common description used to define HRM is by attributing it as a process of managing human talent of an organization to achieve its desired goals and objectives. This process of HRM includes the core areas or divisions such as the recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation and benefits, labour relations and employee management, and more. Similarly, Chuang & Liao (2010) comments about the direct link between human resources process and organizational effectiveness by means of it being a firm's strategic function. As a strategic function of an organization, HR is enabled to enhance the organizational performance as well.

Similarly, this paper highlights three core topics of HRM of motivation and engagement, organizational culture and the business impact of HR policies. These are discussed in terms of their principles and concepts, along with, a discussion about how the writer's professional experience relates with these concepts. These are discussed in the following section of the paper.

Discussion

Motivation and Engagement

This section of the paper discusses about the employee motivation and engagement and its importance to the employee, organization and its success.

Employee Motivation

The revolutionary findings from the Hawthorne Studies highlighted that employees are not solely motivated by employee behavior and money. This pioneer research studies were conducted by Elton Mayo, introduced relationship approach to business management. After which employee(s) motivation became a strong focal point of concern for the business managers (Lindner, 1998).

Moreover, motivation is defined as a psychological process that gives direction and purpose to an individual and helps them navigate their endeavours in pursuit of best accomplishing their desired goals and objectives. Likewise, motivation has been categorically been identified as intrinsic and extrinsic. Where intrinsic motivation represents inner traits engraved in a person's sub-conscious which trigger's their drive to obtain goals. While, extrinsic motivation comes from external factors such as salary, job benefits and more.

Motivation also plays a key role in workplace success apart from an individual's personal success. This is because for an organization motivated employees ensure success and survival. In today's rapidly changing world of technology, business places are increasingly transforming into highly competitive units. Thus, in such scenario motivated employees help the organization to adapt and transit through the changing business scenario by remaining productive.

However, motivating employees is not an easy process. The prime reason of this being that individual's motivation changes with the time. For example, an employee motivation may change and they might no longer be motivated by their salary, ...