Introduction to HRM & Overview of the HR Role
In this lesson, you’re expected to learn about:
– the basics of Human Resource Management (HRM)
– the importance of HRM
– the functions, goals, and scope of HRM
What is Human Resource Management?
Competition for talent is increasing, skills shortages are worsening, and social-recruiting tools are making it easier than ever for workers to change jobs.
To address these challenges, human resource executives must align their HR management and talent strategies in order to create great employee experiences that serve their customers and business in the best possible way.
What is Human Resources?
William R. Tracey, in The Human Resources Glossary, defines Human Resources as: “The people that staff and operate an organization,” as contrasted with the financial and material resources of an organization. A Human Resource is a single person or employee within your organization.
Human Resources is also the organizational function that deals with the people and issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, and training.
What is Human Resource Management?
Human Resource Management (HRM), usually referred to as HR, is the function within an organization that focuses on the recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in an organization.
The HRM department provides the knowledge, necessary tools, training, administrative services, coaching, legal and management advice, and talent management oversight that the rest of the organization needs for successful operation.
Many HR departments are responsible for organization development that generates the culture of the organization. They are charged with responsibilities to ensure that their organization appropriately builds teams and inspires employee empowerment.
Need for Talent
In 1997, McKinsey & Company coined the term the war for talent to describe the increasingly competitive corporate landscape for recruiting and retaining talented employees.
Today, a strong talent-centric strategy may be the most important focus for organizations. A talent-centric organizationrecruits, retains, and develops the right talent at the right price at the right time, to meet rapidly changing customer needs.
The right employees adapt to solve problems and recognize opportunities, which are important skills in today’s dynamic business environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLbSk1Te68&t=1s
The key functions of the Human Resources Management (HRM) team include recruiting people, training them, performance appraisals, motivating employees as well as workplace communication, workplace safety, and much more.
1) Talent-centric: Finding, hiring, and developing the best people in line with your business strategy. Leveraging new business best practices that touch on work-life balance and wellness to increase the overall employee experience. Providing the tools that support sourcing, talent review, and succession planning.
2) Social and collaborative: Building a collaborative culture that drives better communication between people, better productivity across teams, and increased knowledge sharing across departments.
3) Insightful: Delivering business insights to every department, from answering complex workforce questions and forecasting performance and risks to empowering leaders to make smart decisions in real-time to meet their goals.
• HR monitors the culture.
• HR owns the overall talent management processes.
• HR is responsible for the overall recruiting of a superior workforce.
• HR recommends market-based salaries and develops an overall strategic compensation plan.
• HR recommends and implements employee benefit programs that attract and retain your best employees.
1) Managerial Function
This includes the following:
• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Directing
• Controlling
This includes the following:
• Employment
• Human Resource Development
• Compensation
• Employee Relations
It is the first operative function of HRM. Employment is concerned with securing and employing the people possessing the required kind and level of human resources necessary to achieve the organizational objectives.
It covers functions such as job analysis, human resources planning, recruitment, selection, placement, induction and internal mobility.
http://www.enotesmba.com/2014/11/functions-of-human-resource-management.html
1) Micro HRM
This covers the subfunctions of HR policy and practice (Mahoney and Deckop 1986). These can be further grouped into two main categories. The largest group of sub-functions is concerned with managing individuals and small groups, including such areas as recruitment, selection, induction, training and development, performance management, and remuneration.
Strategic HRM is concerned with systemic questions and issues of serious consequence. SHRM focuses on the overall HR strategies adopted by business units and companies and tries to measure their impacts on performance (e.g. Dyer 1984; Delery and Doty 1996).
A third major domain is International HRM (‘IHRM’). Less engaged with the theoretical bridges that are important in strategic HRM, IHRM concerns itself with HRM in companies operating across national boundaries.
International HRM is an amalgam of the micro and the macro with a strong tradition of work on how HR sub-functions, such as selection and remuneration, might be adapted to international assignments.
This confusing detail and profound diversity naturally begs a fundamental question: what are employers seeking through engaging in HRM and how do their goals for HRM relate to their broader business objectives?
• Recruiting
• Hiring
• Training
• Organization Development
• Communication
• Performance Management
• Coaching
• Policy Recommendation
• Salary and Benefits
• Team Building
• Employee Relations
• Leadership
With changing times, the focus of HRM is also changing. HRM is slowly moving away from the traditional administration, personnel, and transactional roles as these are either outsourced or fully automated with exception based business rules.
The function is now expected to perform value added tasks by strategically utilizing employees and ensuring that the various employee programs are recommended and implemented in a positive manner that impacts business in measurable ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmC6F0JvQw