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MEANING OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


MEANING OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

        In simple words, Human Resource Management (HRM) is a management function that deals with recruiting, selecting, training and developing human resources in an organisation. It is concerned with the “people” dimension in management. It includes activities focusing on the effective use of human resource in an organisation. It is concerned with the development of a highly motivated, smoothly functioning work force. It is planning acquiring, developing, utilizing and maintaining ‘human resource’ in the achievement of organisation goals. It is remaining of personnel management.

1. In the words of Miner and Miner “Human resource management is the process of developing, applying and evaluating policies, procedure, methods and programmes relating to the individual in the organisation.”

2. According to Milkovich and Boudreau, “HRM is a series of integrated decision that form the employment relationship; their quality contributes to the ability of the organisation and employees to achieve their objective.”

3. In the words of Dale Yoder, “Manpower management effectively describe the processes of planning and directing the application, development and utilization of human resources in employment.”

4. In the words of Thomas G. Spates, “Personnel administration is organizing and treating individual at work so that they will get the greatest possible realization of their intrinsic abilities, thus attaining maximum efficiency for themselves and their group, and thereby giving to the enterprise of which they are part its determination competitive advantage and its optimum result.”

5. According to Tead and Metcaff , “Human resource management is the planning, supervision, direction and co-ordination of those activities of an organisation which contribute to realizing the definite purpose of that organisation, with an animating spirit of co-operation and with a proper regard for the well-being of all the members of the organisation.”

6. According to E.F.L. Breach, “Personnel Management is that part of management process which is primarily concerned with the human constituents of an organisation.”

7. In the words of Thomas G. Spates, “Personnel administration is organizing and treating individual at work so that they will get the greatest possible realization of their intrinsic abilities, thus attaining maximum efficiency for themselves and their group, and thereby giving to the enterprise of which they are part its determining competitive advantages and its optimum results.”

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