Discuss The Importance Of Human Resource Management

evaluation, training and development, career management, pay management, welfare management, management of incentives, employee movements, health and safety management, discipline management, grievance handling, and labour relations. A model of HRM has been developed and presented showing interrelatedness and interdependence among the HRM functions.

Responsibility of HRM rests with every manager of the organisation. When the organisation employs an expert in HRM there will be dual responsibility existing between other managers and the human resource manager. Five reasons of why

HRM is of very importance for an organization are: (1) Human resources are the most important resource that managers utilize to achieve goals of an organization; (2)

Human resources, management, systems, proactive, strategic, soft, and hard are viewpoints or approaches of HRM providing complementary themes to be pursued.

There are five fields of HRM and they include employment planning, staffing, human resource development, rewards management and employee & labour relations.

Review and Discussion Questions

1. Define what Human Resource Management is. Discuss the importance of

HRM for an organisation.

2. “HRM has been defined in different ways. However there are several common characteristics of HRM.” Do you agree or not? Why?

3. (a) What is the Generic Purpose of HRM?

(b) What are the Strategic Goals and Objectives of HRM?

4. Present a model of HRM and describe and explain it.

5. “Responsibility of HRM rests with every manager in an organisation.”

Elaborate this statement.

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6. “Though every manager in an organization cannot be considered as an expert in HRM, every manager is treated as a manager of people at work.”

Discuss.

7. “Viewpoints of HRM or HRM approaches are useful for managing people at work. They provide complementary themes to be pursued.

SLT’s Chief Officer HR and Legal, I.C.L.

Bertus in an interview with The Sunday Times FT said that the restructuring of the organization was made with the aim of transforming the SLT to a modern and profit making telecom giant in the island successfully facing the challenges of other competitors. He added that the new structure comprising of 11 Chief Officers and 57 heads of divisions equivalent to General Managers has been approved to streamline the functions of SLT and competent, efficient and qualified persons have been appointed with the approval of the Board of Directors.

He said that the new organisation structure was devised in December last year following the models of world telecom organizations. It will help to enhance the work of the SLT and fast track the services in accordance with the company’s plan to shift its focus from voice service to modern value added services like Internet,

Broadband, CDMA and WIFI wireless technology used in home networks, mobile phones, video games and