NATURE AND

FUNCTIONS OF
HRM

PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Edwin B. Flippo :
The Planning, Organizing ,Directing and
Controlling of the procurement, development ,
com- pensation and maintenance and separation
of Human Resources to the end that individual and
societal objectives are accomplished.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
Dessler :
Human resource Management is the process
of acquiring, training, appraising, and
compensating employees, and attending to
their labour relations, health, safety and
fairness concerns.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HRM

AND PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT

Focus (Org Interest/Indi Development)

Philosophy (Getting work/Attitude)
Nature of Function (Staff Fn./Dev,Appraisal)
Pervasiveness (Personnel Mgr/top 2 Bottom)
Motivation (Acquisition/ Morale boosting)
Team-work (Indi/ Group oriented)
Techniques (Pressure tactics/Motivation)

NATURE OF HRM
Lawrence Appley:
Management is Personnel

Administration.

Inherent Part of Management

Pervasive Function
Interdisciplinary Activity
People Control & Development
Continuous Process
Action Oriented
Improves Quality of Life

OBJECTIVES OF PERSONNEL /
HRM

Procurement
Effective Utilization of Human Resources
Development of Human Resources
Identify and Satisfy Needs
Ensuring Equity & Respect
Reconciliation of Individual/ group goals
To be Ethical & Internally motivated
Retaining the Talented Workforce

SCOPE AND ACTIVITIES OF

HRM

Planning
Recruitment, selection and placement
Training and Development
Appraisal of Performance & Compensation
Motivation & Employee Counselling
Career Planning
Social Security and Welfare
Review and Audit of Policies

FUNCTIONS OF HRM

Functions of Human Resource Manager

MANAGERIAL

OPERATIVE

ADVISORY

Planning

EMPLOYMENT

Advice to Top Mangt.

Organising

Training and Development

Advice to Dept. Heads

Directing

Remuneration

Controlling

Working Conditions
Motivation
Personnel Records
Industrial Relations
Separation

SIGNIFICANCE OF HRM
Role of Human Resource Manager
in an Organization

Policy Formulation
Advisory Role
Linking Pin Role
Representative Role
Decision-making Role
Mediator Role
Leadership Role
Welfare Role

ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGER IN INDUSTRY AND
SOCIETY
Oliver Sheldon :
No industry can be rendered efficient so long as
the basic fact remains unrecognized that
it is principally human. It is not a mass of machines and
technical process but a body of men.

QUALITIES OF A PERSONNEL/
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGER

Physical
Mental
Moral
Educational
Technical
Experience

SYSTEM APPROACH TO
HRM
WHAT IS SYSTEM?
A system may be defined as an assemblage or
combination of things or parts forming a
complex or unitary whole.

ORGANISATION AS A
SYSTEM

Goal oriented
Sum of all parts
Processing or
transforming I/O into
O/P
Interrelation among
components
Acts upon its and by its
Environment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Human Resource
Management System can be
viewed as a System which
transforms personnel (i.e.
inputs) into productive
Human Resource (i.e.
output).

MODEL OF HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

Training and Development

Organizational
Development
Organization/ Job Design
Human Resource Planning
Selection and Staffing
Personnel Research and
Information System
Compensation/ Benefits
Employee Assistance
Union/ Labour Relations

THANK YOU

Presented By:
Anuja Goyal
HOD, MBA Deptt.