WHAT IS THE FOCUS OF HRM DEPARTMENT?

The HRM focus should always be maintaining and, ideally, expanding the customer base while maintaining, and ideally, maximizing profit. HRM has a whole lot to do with this focus regardless of the size of the business, or the products or services you are trying to sell. (Dr. James Spina, former head of Executive Development at the Tribune Company). HRM is involved in managing the human resources with a focus on expanding customer base that gives profit to the company. The bottom line of the company is the focus of the HRM department as well as the function.

Human Resource Management: Scope The scope of HRM is very wide: 1. 2. 3. Personnel aspect-This is concerned with manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, promotion, training and development, layoff and retrenchment, remuneration, incentives, productivity etc. Welfare aspect-It deals with working conditions and amenities such as canteens, creches, rest and lunch rooms, housing, transport, medical assistance, education, health and safety, recreation facilities, etc. Industrial relations aspect-This covers union-management relations, joint consultation, collective bargaining, grievance and disciplinary procedures, settlement of disputes, etc.

Human Resource Management: Objectives To help the organization reach its goals. To ensure effective utilization and maximum development of human resources. To ensure respect for human beings. To identify and satisfy the needs of individuals. To ensure reconciliation of individual goals with those of the organization. To achieve and maintain high morale among employees. To provide the organization with well-trained and well-motivated employees. To increase to the fullest the employee's job satisfaction and self-actualization. To develop and maintain a quality of work life. To be ethically and socially responsive to the needs of society. To develop overall personality of each employee in its multidimensional aspect. To enhance employee's capabilities to perform the present job. To equip the employees with precision and clarity in transaction of business. To inculcate the sense of team spirit, team work and inter-team collaboration.

Human Resource Management: Functions In order to achieve the above objectives, Human Resource Management undertakes the following activities: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Human resource or manpower planning. Recruitment, selection and placement of personnel. Training and development of employees. Appraisal of performance of employees. Taking corrective steps such as transfer from one job to another. Remuneration of employees. Social security and welfare of employees. Setting general and specific management policy for organizational relationship.

9. Collective bargaining, contract negotiation and grievance handling. 10. Staffing the organization. 11. Aiding in the self-development of employees at all levels. 12. Developing and maintaining motivation for workers by providing incentives. 13. Reviewing and auditing manpower management in the organization 14. Potential Appraisal. Feedback Counseling. 15. Role Analysis for job occupants. 16. Job Rotation. 17. Quality Circle, Organization development and Quality of Working Life.

The role of HR manager includes: 1.Primary screening 2.Recruiting 3.Training&Development 4.Staffing 5.Organising 6.Coordinating 7.Directing 8.Performance appraisal 9.Retaining&relieving 10.Payroll processing

The role of HR Manager may even extend to that of legal n statutory compliances. However, it depends totally on the roles and the responsibilities demanded by that position which may vary from company to company. SAy in some co's there may be only one manager who has a dedicated team with him. In this case he will play a supervisory role n will be initiating things and guiding his team for target completion be the case of recruitment for filling any urgent vacancy or adhering to the training calendar etc.... Similarly in some co's the manager may be having a boss and his roles are defined accordingly.... You may decide which case is yours..... Please understand that the role of an HR is primarily the same everywhere i.e. Recruitment, T&D, Compensation, PMS, Legal etc... It is only the level at which one is working in the capacity of HR is where the difference in roles and responsibilities comes...