Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management
Introduction to HRM
Activities undertaken to attract, develop, and maintain an effective workforce within an organization.
The people who make up and organization give that organization its primary source of competitive advantage.
Human Resource Management plays a key role in finding and developing the organizations people as human resources that contribute to and directly affect company success.
Introduction to HRM
Organizational performance is impacted in a positive way from HRM.
HRM professionals are considered key players in the management team. No longer just ‘personnel.
As organizations flatten out more responsibility is pushed down. Todays business leaders will deal with HRM.
Recruiting, developing, performance appraisals are examples of things being pushed down.
The Strategic Goals of HRM
Three Primary Goals all Influence by Strategy
Environmental Influences on HRM
“Our people are our most important resource”
You must find, recruit, train, nurture, and retain the best people.
Without them (people) your strategy and structure does not mean anything!
Environmental Influences
Competitive Strategy
Federal Legislation
Trend in society
Competitive Strategy
Organization competitive strategy may include merges and acquisition, downsizing to increase efficiency, international operation.
These strategic decision determine the demand of skills and employees.
The human resource strategy in return, must include the correct employee markup to implement the organizational strategy.
Federal Legislation
In the past 40 years several laws have been passed to ensure equal employment opportunities (EOO).
Purpose: Stop unfair discriminatory practices that are unfair to a specific group and define enforcement agencies to enforce the laws.
Discrimination: the hiring or promoting of applicants based on criteria that are not job relevant.
Affirmative