Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Introduction

The business organizations in the present era are striving for excellence through following modern practices, policies and procedures. They aim upon attaining resilience in the nature of organization an excellence in terms of the business functions and practices. All the departments in an organization work in coordination with each other to improve performance and enhance employee productivity. However, one of the departments, the Human Resource Management department, plays a vital role in the management of the business functions, activities and in sustaining the performance of human capital.

Discussion

The human resource management has been defined as the science and practice of dealing with the nature of relationships between the employment and the set of decisions, actions and issues linked to such relations "(Ferris, Rosen and Barnum 1995). It addresses policies and practices that consider the use enterprise management and workers as a source of activity in the context of overall business strategy and is aimed at improving productivity and competitiveness. It is a term that often described the entrepreneurial approach to management and staff based on the priority given to participation of workers. This happened usually, though not always, in centers of non-union labor, in order to motivate them to increase productivity.

Currently, the HRM focuses on the techniques of work in organization, which include recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, training, improvement of qualifications and career development, and direct participation of workers and communication. The human resource management has been proposed as an alternative to "Fordism", the traditional type of production based on the assembly line, in which engineers dealing with the organization of work and assignments are divided and the staff is specifically restricted (Mayo, Elton, 1945).

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