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Human Resource Management (HRM)

Concept

Manpower is one of Ule most essential input in any production process alongwith money,material. machine and time. All other inputs being lifeless objects are not difficult to manage, whereas the versatility, needs, motives, emotions, feelings, anxieties, fears, etc. m,&e understanding of human resource and its management, a major challenge for ally manager. This task becomes even more difficult for a project manager or project engineer who is predominantly pre-occupied with other production and operation related problems.Mostly, he does not have the services of human resource manager available to him at the site. Human resource management is not only the study of various issues, concerns and problems of employees at work but it also include the factors which affect it: including their quality of life at home.

Growth

The objective of any employer is predominantly profit making. The eiriployer is primarily concerned with factors affecting the productivity and production of his business enterprise. Human beings by virtue of their needs. motives, aspirations and creativity cannot be approached and managed in a stereo type manner like other mean!, ot production. Various psychologists all over the world have studied the hunmi behaviour at work in great details. The work of psychologists like Abrahim Maslow, McGregor and Fedrick Herzeberg made special contribution towards the growth of liuman resource management, which took quantum jump after the World War 11. Due to problem of shortage of goods and services faced by the society all over, the human resource management became the pivotal point in the total process of management. In India, it began in Cotton Textile Mills before World War 11. In fact, even in UK, the full function began to take shape only after the World War 11. In order to encourage and motivate employees for higher production and productivity, various aspects of human resource management were studied in great details.

On international scenario, the origin of human resource management as an independent discipline can be traced to the Hawthrone Experiments. It was conducted by Elton Mayo and his researchers at the Western Electric Company from 1927 to 1932 focussing on the influence of various social pressures on the productivity of the employees.

Role and Functions
The human resource management functions can be summarised as given below :

(a) Employees Information System,

(b) Recruitment and selection,

(c) Orientation and induction of employees,

(d) Training and development,

(e) Time office and establishment functions,

(f) Employees welfare,

(g) Industrial relations, and

(h) Maintenance of discipline.

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