Special Topics in HRM Overview of HRM

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Special Topics in HRMOverview of HRM

• Jerry Estenson

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Main Tasks of HRM

• Right results Through people
• Right people for the right jobs
• Motivating these folks
• Measuring their productivity
• Develop their full potential

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Missing Focus for HR

• Improving productivity
• Increasing quality
• Facilitating mergers and acquisitions
• Managing knowledge
• Improving organizations ability to bring new
  product/services to market

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Line versus Staff Authority

• Line Managers
• Carry the burden of the bottom line
• HRM
• Lightens the load from a people perspective
• Implied or borrowed authority
• Functional control (speaks for management)
• Employee advocate (conscious of the organization)

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Role of Line Managers in HR functions

• See page 6 for the list of ten activities that
  are clearly HR in nature.

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Changing Environment

• More HR executives come from outside the field
  (25)
• Globalization
• Technology (IT will play an important role.
  Moving traditional HR functions to the Intranet)
• HR being tied to performance metrics

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Core Competencies

• Knowledge of Employment Law
• Soft Leadership Skills
• High ethical standards
• Technology skills (Human Resources Information
  Systems