By Vandana Dhawan


As we all know, human resource management is a function that helps organizations to meet their business goals by enhancing the productivity and efficiency of all related processes through employee performance. It handles all the activities related to organization workforce including job analysis, recruitment, training and development (T&D), employee relations, and performance monitoring and compensation management to maximize the employee performances.

Businesses are different from one to another. Therefore, different HR practices are applicable for different organizations. Here are some common explanations for above described HRM procedures.

Occupation analysis - Different organizations have different job positions. Therefore, the management of any organization should have a clear understanding about their job positions. They should know the qualification levels, experience levels, training and development needs, ways of performance analysis of each job position. Knowing these facts are vital to assign correct person to the correct job and teach him the responsibilities and duties he has. Hiring experienced workers is the most suitable option available for firms that need short-term productivity increase. Then, they can cut costs relate to training and development, as well as performance evaluation

Recruiting employees - HRM is liable to recruit correct employees for all job positions. They have various methods to find potential candidates. Some popular methods are job banks, vacancy advertisements, job fairs and recruiting agents. Online recruitment is also getting popular among many business firms because there are many opportunities to find talented employees through social networks and online job banks. Business firms in countries like India use these online recruiting methods very often because of the proven benefits they give.

Training and Development - This is mainly done to improve the performance of employees. Companies mainly use two methods to train their employees. They are on the job training and specifically arranged training sessions and workshops. Internal trainers or external training providers are used for training and development.

Employee relations - Healthy working environments improve the efficiency of workers. HRM is responsible to maintain a conflict-free working environment. Proper information flows to be developed from the top management to lower level workers and vice versa.

Activity monitoring - It is always necessary to check whether the workers do their jobs correctly and work for organization success. This can be done through methods like critical Incident technique, Ranking Method, the checklist method and Forced Distribution method. There should be a mechanism to reward workers with higher performances.

Compensation management - Human resource management should provide monetary and non-monetary benefits to employees. It helps to motivate employees to achieve business goals. If the organization has an innovative business strategy, it should pay more than an organization which has cost control objectives.




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