Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management
Fundamentals:
HR Management involves setting right goals and allocating the right resources to achieve them. It also involves efficiently achieving the objectives of the organization with and through the right people. Primarily HR Management involves the following.

• Planning
• Organizing
• Leading
• Controlling

Human Resource Management has become very important in the current scenario. It has become very sophisticated. The resons being employee legislation has placed new requirements on employers. Jobs are becoming more technical and skilled. Traditional job boundaries have become blurred. This has happened with the advent of such things as project teams and telecommuting. DUe to the global competition the demand has increased and so has productivity.
Human Resource Management serves 4 Basic Functions:

• Staffing
• Training and Development
• Motivation
• Maintenance
  

HRM is also influenced by external factors such as

• Management
• Labor Unions
• Government Legislation
• Strategic Environment

Important links
Society for Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management

Laughter is the best Medicine

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The woman below replied: "You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are 51º21,32.87 degrees north latitude and 0º21,32.87 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an IT specialist," said the balloonist.

" I am," replied the woman. "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help so far."

The woman below responded: "You must be in HR."

"I am, "replied the balloonist. "But how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."