Introduction to Human Resource

Management
Session # 1
Sonakshi Gupta

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 Learning Objectives

1-1. Explain what human resource management

is and how it relates to the management process.

1-2. Trends influencing human resource

management.

1-3. Understand “distributed HR” and other

important aspects of human management today.

1-4. Learn about the important human resource

manager competencies.

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 What Is Human Resource
Management? What Managers do ?
• The Management Process
– Planning
– Organizing
– Staffing
– Leading
– Controlling

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 What Is Human Resource Management?

THEORETICAL
Organizational Organizational
Theory Behaviour

Human
Organizational
Resource
Development
APPLIED Management
MACRO MICRO
 What Is Human Resource Management?
Human resource management is the process of
acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating
employees, and of attending to their labor relations,
health and safety, and fairness concerns.

– Acquiring Hiring(Recruitment & Selection),

– Training Training & Development
– Appraising Performance Management
– Compensating Compensation, rewards & benefits
– Health and safety-HR policies

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 Concepts to be performed under personnel
aspects of your job
1. Conducting job analyses (determining the nature of each employee’s job). Session 4 Ex

2. Planning labor needs

3. Recruiting job candidates and Selecting job candidates. Session 6,7,& 8 Ex

4. Orienting and training new employees. Session

5. Managing wages and salaries (compensating employees). Session 12,13 & 14 Ex

6. Providing incentives and benefits. Session 10-11

7. Appraising performance. Session 10 & 11

8. Communicating (interviewing, counseling, disciplining).

9. Training employees, and developing managers. Session 15-16

10. Building employee relations and engagement.

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 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All
Managers?

To Avoid Personnel Mistakes

To Improve Profits and Performance

You May Spend Some Time as an HR Manager

HR for Small Business – you may end up as your own human resource
manager

All managers will have to deal with HR managers for many reasons (e.g.
Salary components, apprisals, leave approvals, training needs e.t.c)

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 Line and Staff Aspects of Human
Resource Management
• Authority is the right to make decisions, to direct
the work of others, and to give orders. Managers
usually distinguish between line authority and staff
authority.

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 Line and Staff Managers

Line authority gives you the right to issue orders to

other managers or employees. E.g.

Staff authority gives you the right to advise others

managers or employees in the organization. It
creates an advisory relationship. E.g.

HR managers are staff managers. They assist &

advice line managers in areas such as recruiting,
hiring, compensation e.t.c.

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 Line Manager’s HR Duties
• Placing the right person in the right job
• Starting new employees in the organization
• Training employees for jobs that are new to them
• Improving the job performance of each person
• Developing smooth working relationships & coordination
• Interpreting the company policies and procedures
• Controlling labor cost
• Developing the abilities of each person
• Creating and maintaining departmental morale
• Protecting employees’ health and physical conditions
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 The Human Resources Department

Human Resource Department Organization Chart Showing Typical HR Job Titles

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 Trends in Human Resource
Management
• Workforce Demographics and Diversity Trends
• Trends in How People Work
• Globalization Trends
• Economic Trends
• Technology Trends
• Remote Working/Flexible Hour

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 More on HR Technology Trends
• There are 4 main types of digital technologies
driving HR professionals to automation:
– Social Media
– Gaming
– Cloud Computing
– Data Analytics (also known as Talent Analytics)

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 New Approaches To Organizing HR
• Reorganizing the HR function of how it is
organized and delivers HR services
– Shared Services (Transactional) HR teams
– Corporate HR teams
– Embedded HR teams
– Centers of expertise

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 Today’s New Human Resource
Management
• Distributed HR and the New Human Resource
Management
• Trends Shaping HR: Digital and Social Media

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 A Quick Summary

What Trends Mean

for Human Resource
Management

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 Purpose of this course
The aim of this course is to help
every manager develop the
skills he or she needs to carry
out the human resource
management-related aspects of
his or her job, such as
recruiting, selecting, training,
appraising, and incentivizing
employees, and providing them
with a safe and fulfilling work
environment.

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 Is HRM only relevant for HR Managers?
Ask
• Human resource management is the responsibility
of every manager—not just those in human
resources.
• Managers use HR techniques to improve
performance, productivity, and profitability

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 Thank You

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