Chapter 1

Understanding the
Nature and Scope
of
Human Resource Management
Meaning and Definition
• People’s dimension
• Organisational effectiveness

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Human Resource Management is the
Planning, Organising, Directing and
Controlling of the Procurement,
Development, Compensation, Integration,
Maintenance and Separation of human
resources to the end that Individual,
Organisational and Social objectives are
accomplished.

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Scope of HRM
• Enters
• Works
• Exits

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Road Map of The Course

Nature of
HRM

Prospects Employee
of HRM Hiring

HRM
Employee &
Industrial
Executive
Relations
Remuneration

Employee Employee
Maintenance Motivation

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Difference between PM and HRM
Personnel Management HRM
• Careful delineation of written • Aim to go beyond contract
contracts
• Importance of devising clear • Can do outlook, impatience
rules with rule
• Procedures • Business need
• Norms/customs and practices • Values/mission
• Monitoring • Nurturing
• Labour management • Customer
• Piecemeal • Integrated
• Slow • Fast
• Transactional • Transformational leadership
• Indirect • direct
• Negotiation • facilitation
• Separate, marginal task • Integrated key tasks
• Job evaluation • Performance related

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What Are These Terms???

• Human Resource Development (HRDJ)

• Industrial Relations (IR)
• Strategic Human Resource Management
(SHRM)

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Objectives of HRM

Personal
Objectives

Functional
Objectives

Organisational
Objectives

Societal
Objectives

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HRM Small-scale Unit
Owner/Manager

Production
Sales Manager Office-Manager Accountant
Manager

Personnel
Assistant

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 HRM Large-scale Unit
Chairman and
Managing
Director

Director Director Director Director Director

Production Finance Personnel/HRM Marketing R&D

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Composition of a HR / Personnel
Department
Owner/Manager

Manager- Manager-
Manager-HRD Manager-IR
Personnel Administration

Training &
Appraisal
Development

PR Canteen Medical Welfare Transport Legal

Grievances
HRP Hiring Compensation
Handling

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What Are These Terms

• Principles
• Policies
• Procedures
• Practices

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Principle

• It is the intention of the company to

provide a safe plant and a healthy
working environment.

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Policy

• Our policy is to institute every practical

method for engineering safety into our
processes and equipment, to provide
protective clothing where necessary, to
train employees in safe operating
procedures, and vigorously enforce
establish safety rules. Our policy is to
provide a healthy plant by giving
adequate attention to cleanliness,
temperature, ventilation, light and
senitation.
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Personnel Policies at ABB India

• Role clarity
• Empowerment
• Take responsibility
• Competence development
• Clearly defined objectives for individual
and the work team

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Jobs & Careers in HRM

• HR Specialist
• HR Manager
• HR Executive

• Why Study HRM?

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Reality Check

• It is good to read that people

management has matured from IR to PM
to HRM to HCM. But has the change
been only cosmic or real? Have a debate.

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Thank You

Best Wishes…

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