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NATURE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


NATURE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

 1. Growth-Oriented: HRM is concerned with employees both as individual and as cooperative group in attaining goals. It provides for employee satisfaction and growth as well as group goals.

2. A Co-operative Function: Personnel administrators also function as coordinators of personnel activities. This duty is often referred to as “functional control.” In this role the personnel administrator and his department act as “the right arm of the top executive to assure him that personnel objectives and policies are being properly carried out by line manager.”

 3. Employee Objective: The main object of HRM is to help employee to develop their potentialities and capacities to the full so that they can derive the greatest satisfaction from their work. It attempts at getting the willing cooperation of the people for the attainment of the desired goals. It promotes esprit of corps.

4. Implied Authority: HR managers have no line authority but likely to exert implied authority. This is because line managers know the personnel director often has access to top management. As a result personnel directors’ “suggestions” are often viewed as “orders from topside.” This implied authority carriers even more weight with employee.

5. Science as Well as Art: HRM is a science of “human engineering”. It has an organisational body of knowledge consisting of principle and techniques. It is also an art because it involves skill to deal with people. It maintains human relationship between organisation and the employee. To handle men and solve their problems is one of the most creative arts.

6. Young Discipline: It is relatively new specialized area as compared to production and marketing. It has recent origin. Only in recent years the influence and prestige of the personnel has expanded.

7. Interdisciplinary Nature: It has its roots in social science. It uses concept drawn from various discipline like psychology, sociology, anthropology etc. It has borrowed principles from behavioral science also.

8. Wide Application: HRM function are not confined to business enterprise only. They are applicable to non-business organisation, too, such as education, health care, recreation, and like.

9. Philosophy of Management: HRM is not only an art and a science but it is a philosophy of management also. It has also belief in the dignity and worth of the individual human being – in his right to seek his own goals through working in an organisation.

10. Comprehensive Function: Personnel management is concerned with managing people at work. It covers all types of people at all level in the organisation. It applies to workers, supervisors, officers and managers. It covers skilled, technical, professional, clerical, management, organised and unorganized types of personnel.

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