Human Resources Management - Assignment

Assignment Topic:                 

                                i. As the Human Resource Manager, how do you formulate and implement Human Resource Policies in your Organization?

                                       

ii.             Search and itemise the definition of Human Resources Management from 2010-2013 

   

                               iii.                    Summarise Chapter 4 of the text book

INTRODUCTION

Human Resources Management or Personnel Management has been in existence for a long time.  It is all about human beings in organization.  the earliest contributors to our understanding of management theory included practicing managers as well as social scientists.  More recent theorists have tended to be academics or management consultants.

The practicing managers tended to reflect upon and theorize about, their personal experiences of management with the objective of producing a set of rational principle of management which could be applied universally in order to achieve organizational efficiency.  The resultant theories of management were concerned primarily with the structuring of work and organizations, rather than, with human motivation or organization culture.

Management talks of the totality while personnel administration emphasizes more on human resources.

SOLUTION ASSIGNMENT  QUESTION NO.1

Policies are guidelines that are followed by management towards decision making.  Human Resource Policies like any other corporate policies are not just the preserve of a particular group of managers.  Such policies have to be agreed by the top management team as a whole and approved by the Board.

As a Human Resource Manager, key areas of human resource policies formulation and implementation in organization are as follows:

i.                  Recruitment and selection

ii.               Pay and benefits (Pensions etc)

iii.            Relations with trade unions or staff association

iv.             Career Development

v.                Training

vi.             Safety and Health

vii.          Employment legislation

Other examples of personnel policies are as follows:

i.                  Every job vacancy will be advertised within the organization before any external advertising takes place.

ii.               The company will encourage to pursue training and education opportunities, where this might qualify them for promotion or career development moves within the organization

iii.            The organization will always negotiate in good faith with the representatives of recognized independent trade unions

iv.             The company will always endeavour to obey the spirit as well as the laws relating to employment; it will actively discourage activities which might cause a breach of the law.

SOLUTION TO ASSIGNMENT QUESTION NO.2.

Definitions of Human Resources Management from 2010-2013 are itemized below:

Human Resources Management is the management of people in an organizations from a Macro Perspective i.e. managing people in the form of collective relationship between management and employees.  David McClelland (2010)

Human resource management is the management process of an organization’s workforce, or human resources.  It is responsible for the attraction, selection, training, assessment, and rewarding of employees, while also overseeing organizational leadership and culture and ensuring compliance with employment and labour laws. Beatrice Webb (2011).

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