1. Course: MBA SEM 2
Subject: Human Resource Management
Unit 1
Basics of Human Resource
Management
2. • Human: refer to the skilled workforce in the
organization.
• Resource: refer to limited availability or scarce.
• Management: refer to maximize or proper
utilization and make best use of limited and a
scarce resource.
Meaning and Definition
3. • People Oriented
• Continuous Process
• Future Oriented
• Integrating Mechanism
• Action Oriented
• Inter-Disciplinary
function
• Development Oriented
• Comprehensive
function
• Auxiliary Service
Nature of HRM
4. Scope of HRM
Nature of
HRM
Nature of
HRM
Prospects of
HRM
Prospects of
HRM
Industrial
Relations
Industrial
Relations
Employee
Maintenance
Employee
Maintenance
Employee
Motivation
Employee
Motivation
Employee &
Executive
Remuneration
Employee &
Executive
Remuneration
Employee
Hiring
Employee
Hiring
HRMHRM
5. Personnel Management & HRM
Father of
Personnel Management
Father of
Human Resource Management
Robert Owen >>
(14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858)
George Elton Mayo >>
(26 December 1880 - 7 September 1949)
7. Composition of a HR / Personnel Department
Manager-Personnel
Manager-
Administration
Manager-HRD Manager-IR
Owner/Manager
Appraisal Training & Development
Medical WelfareCanteen TransportPR Legal
HRP Hiring Grievances Handling Compensation
11. Paradoxes in HRM
• Only hype but low on content
• Has grown from IR to PM to HRM. But HRM is
brilliant ambiguity.
• HR Manager is change agent and
transformationlist.
• Finance overtakes personnel function.
12. Personnel Policies at ABB India
• Role clarity
• Empowerment
• Take responsibility
• Competence development
• Clearly defined objectives for individual and
the work team
13. Personnel Policies at ABB India
• The local unions as natural co-operation partners
• Planning discussions held at least once a year
• Internal mobility and employee development
• Ethics, equal opportunities and an open and honest
exchange of thoughts and ideas
• A strategic issue
