introduction of HRM is useful to MBA students studying in the Anna university, chennai.

1.  HRM is concerned with the “people”
dimension in management. Since every
organization is made up of people,
acquiring their services, developing their
skills, motivating them to high levels of
performance, and ensuring that they
continue to maintain their commitment to
the organization are essential to
achieving organizational objectives.

2.  “Human resource or manpower
management effectively describes the
process of planning and directing the
application, development and utilization
of human resources in employment” –
Dale Yoder
 “HRM is that part of management process
which is primarily concerned with the
human constituents of an organization” –
E.F.L. Breach

3.  Acquisition,
 Development,
 Motivation and
 Maintenance
 Acquisition- The acquisition function
begins with planning. Relative to human
resource requirements, we need to know
where we are going and how we are going
to get there. This includes the Estimating of
demands and supplies of labor. Acquisition
also includes the recruitment, selection, and
socialization of employees.

4.  Development - The first is employee
training, which emphasizes skill
development and changing of attitudes
among workers. The second is
management development, which
concerns itself primarily with knowledge
acquisition and enhancement of an
executives’s conceptual abilities. The
third is career development, which is the
continual effort to match long-term
individual and organizational needs

5.  Motivation – The motivation function begins
with the recognition that individuals are unique
and that motivation techniques must reflect the
needs of each individual. Within the motivation
function, alienation, job satisfaction, performance
appraisal, behavioural and structural techniques
for stimulating worker performance, the
importance of linking rewards to performance,
compensation and benefits administration, and
how to handle problem employees are reviewed.
 Maintenance – It is concerned with providing
those working conditions that employees believe
are necessary in order to maintain their
commitment to the organization.

6.  Universally relevant
 Goal oriented
 Pervasive in nature
 On going activity
 Dynamic field of activity
 Focuses on the development of man
power resources
 Science as well as art
 Interdisciplinary
 Relatively new

7. Importance of Human Resource
Management:
• It helps the organization to identify correctly its manpower
needs.
• It ensures that the organization does not suffer from either
surplus or shortage of manpower
• It facilitates the selection of right man for the right job
• It focuses attention on the development of the skill of every
individual in order to make him up-to-date.
• It recognizes the need for the appraisal of the employees’
Performance.
• It considers the need to provide incentives to the employees
performing well.
• It gives utmost importance to securing a favourable employee
attitude
• It emphasizes the need for good human relations in every work
place
• It provides scope for collective bargaining.

8.  To provide counseling
 To act as a link between the different
individuals in the organization
 To ensure that the employees get what is
due to them
 To act as the spokesmen of the organization
 To introduce any change without facing
resistance from any side.
 To advise the line managers

9. • To make an optimum utilization of the human
resource of the organization
• To ensure that the organization has the required
number staff
• To establish and maintain a sound organization
structure
• To reconcile personal and organizational goals
• To provide scope for the development of
personnel
• To ensure that the employees have higher job
satisfaction
• To provide scope for participation in decision-
making

10.  Vision Penetration
 Internal Environment
 Change in industrial relation
 Building Organisational capabilities
 Job design and organizational structure
 Increasing size of workforce
 Changing psycho-social system
 Satisfaction of higher level needs
 Equalitarian social system
 Technological advances
 Computerized information system
 Changes in legal environment
 Management of Human relations