Introducing Human Resource Management

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• Introducing Human Resource Management
• Chapter No 1st
• By Margaret Foot Caroline Hook
• Third Edition
• Prepared By Omid Sabah
• Master (Economics)
• Master (Management)

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Introducing Human Resource Management
Objectives

• By the end of this chapter you will be able to
• What is HRM?
• Why we are concerned with HRM?
• What is meant by the terms personnel
  management?
• Shifting from personnel management to HRM
• Concept of People working as individual, Group,
  and Team

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• What is Human Resource Management?
• Managerial function that tries to match an
  organizations needs to the skills and abilities
  of its employees
• OR
• Managing the people in organization is called
  HRM
• OR
• Concerned with attracting, maintaining and
  developing people in organization

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Human Resource Management
Resource
HRM
Management
Human
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Why We are Concerned with HRM?

• Today if you are running a project what source do
  we need more to be successful?
• Arrangement of Technology?
• Arrangement of Budget?
• Arrangement of Land?
• Arrangement of People?
• Human resource arrangement is a big deal for any
  type of business success

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What is Meant by Personnel Management?

• Is the study of how employers obtain, develop,
  utilize, maintain, the right number of persons
  for the right work or job

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Primary Activities of Personnel Management

• Planning company picnics or to arrange some
  parties of fun programs for the department
• Scheduling Vacation
• Example Who should leave for holiday this
  month?
• Enrolling workers for health-care coverage
• Planning retirement parties

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Shifting from Personnel management to HRM
(History)

• Personnel management has been a recognized
  function in the USA since 1890s
• Management thinking was developed until 1950s
• Human Relations can effect productivity
• In 1970, the job of HR manager was to keep their
  companies out of court
• From the 1970s onwards, change was the primary
  concern
• Because all of the mentioned changes in
  personnel management the concept of HRM was
  emerged in 1990 and 20th s

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Organizations changed with Time

• What was the primary concern of organizations at
  that time (Century ago)?
• Before 1900, there main concern was producing
  more and more, to bring more people in production
  place
• 1900-10, Employee Welfare At this time
  organization was a little thinking that employee
  need something to eat and give some reward
• 1930-40, Unionization and productivity with
  union there was great productivity
• 1940-50, Economic Security The more economic
  resources you have the more you were secured
• 1950-60, Human Relations can direct effect the
  production
• 1960-70, Employment Law Rule and regulation
  about employment should be strong
• 1970-80, Quality of Work Life (QWL) Working in
  safe environment where stress is less
• Example If you have good computer with
  air-conditioned and good furniture off course you
  will be more energetic and motivated

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Organizations changed with Time (Continued)

• 1980-1990, Employee Displacement New
  technologies were introduced, people were
  differentiating that this worker is good and this
  is not, ten persons work can be done by five
  persons
• 1990-2000, The main concern was productivity,
  efficiency, and quality
• 2000, how to survive from competitive pressures

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Shifting from personnel management to HRM

• 1940s-1950s Mechanistic Period
• 1960s-1970s Legalistic Period
• 1980s Organistic Period
• 1990s Strategic Period
• 2000s Catalytic Period
• Mechanistic Period (1940-50) Manufacturing was
  the driver of industry and the HR was performed
  in mechanical way

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Shifting from personnel management to HRM
(Continued)

• Legalistic Period (1960-70) Rules and
  regulations were made to control the employee
  through this
• Organistic Period (1980) To bring change in work
  environment because to make organization profit
  oriented
• Strategic Period (1990) HR becomes a truly
  strategic function
• Catalytic Period (2000) To speed up the reaction
• Example Today new trends are entering the
  organizations but HR is playing a key role in
  that

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Concept of people working as Individuals, Groups
and Teams

• Individual Those who wish to work individually
  in organization want pride and need recognition
• Group A group is just a collection of people
  with something in common

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Why do People Join Group?

• Because of the following reasons
• Security In organization and society getting
  more people get together with each other means
  secure
• Status Every person is feeling pride that other
  people should give him/her respect
• Social Need Every person inside society wants to
  communicate and participate
• Power Alone if you are talking no one will
  lesson but as a group every one can pay attention
• Goal Achievement Achieving something alone can
  not be productive than achieving in group

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Types of Groups

• Formal Groups Gathering of people and assign
  them work from organization side
• Informal Groups People from different minds,
  attitudes close together and they form a group

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Teams?

• The word team stands for?
• T?
• E ?
• A ?
• M ?
• Its easy to get players, Getting them to play
  together, that the hard part
• A team is internally organized, with specific
  goals and usually with specific roles for
  different members of the team

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Types of Teams

• Following are some essential types of team
• Problem Solving Team This team is form because
  to solve specific problem
• Self-Managed Team Team which is able to manage
  their self various types of condition
• Cross-Functional Team Different members of
  departments are getting together to solve the
  problem
• Virtual Team Communication between a team in
  various different locations
• Example one member of team is in Kabul another
  in USA, all they should communicate with each
  other

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How to bring Individuals into Teams?

• Following are the effective ways
• Selection Here selection means picking the right
  person for the job
• Training By picking the person only is not
  enough but to train and develop them
• Rewards When he or she shows excellent efforts a
  reward should be given to him or her

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Key Differences between Teams and Groups

• Team team building can take years
• Group group building can take a few minutes
• Team team is more difficult to form because
  members of team may be selected from there skill,
  experience
• Group group is much easy to form
• Example If you had a room filled with
  professional accountants, for example, they can
  be grouped according to gender, age, and other
  common factors

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Key Differences between Teams and Groups
(Continued)

• In a group, members think they are grouped
  together for administrative purposes only.
• In a team, members recognized their dependence
  and understand both personal and team goals are
  best accomplished with mutual support.

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Key Differences between Teams and Groups
(Continued)

• In a group, members tend to focus on themselves
  because they are not sufficiently involved in
  planning the unit's objectives.
• In a team, members feel a sense of ownership for
  their jobs and unit, because they are committed
  to values based common goals which they helped
  establish.

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• THE END OF CHAPTER NO 1ST
• INTRODUCING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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