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HRM 1
HRM 1
in India – HRM implications
Prof. T N Krishnan
Organizational Behaviour &
Human Resources Area
Extension – 244
Flow of the session
• Significance of HR function – Why HRM?
• Roles performed and competencies required
of HR personnel
• Significant macro‐environmental influences on
HRM in India
Your views on the following
• How is HRM function be relevant to you in your work
and personal life?
Why Study Human Resource Management
(HRM)?
• HRM has a direct personal impact on us as an employee
– Eg. Compensation, careers, performance assessment, learning and
development
• You will implement HRM practices as a HR manager
• You will most likely oversee HR policies and practices as you move up the
hierarchy
• You are attracted to companies because of HR practices like rewards or
training/development or fallouts of HRM like culture
• Your company’s reputation as a “good employer” is based on its HRM practices
• As a line manager you would be involved in supervisory roles – motivation,
assessment and development of subordinates
• Productive, creative and HAPPY set of colleagues is satisfying for all employees
not just HR departments
– Each one of you as managers in whatever role you may be are concerned with HR
practices and its consequences on its employees
Think Pad
HRM – Three Definitions: What are the key ideas?
• “Human Resource management (HRM) refers to policies,
practices and systems that influence employees’
behaviors, attitudes and performance”
‐ Noe et al
• “The design of formal systems in an organization to
ensure effective and efficient use of human talent to
accomplish organizational goals”
‐ Mathis
• “Personnel management may be defined as a set of
programmes, functions and activities designed to
maximise both personal and organisational goals”
‐ VSP Rao
Your views on the following
• What roles do HR department perform?
• What competencies are required by HR
personnel?
What Roles Do
HR Departments Perform? (Ulrich, D.)
Strategic Partner
Change Agent
Competencies needed by HR
professionals (Noe et al)
• Ability to
– Consider current and future business goals and how HRM can
contribute (strategic partner).
– Analyze turnover, retention, productivity, and customer service
problems to recommend potential HRM solutions (strategic
partner).
– Overcome resistance to new HRM policies and procedures,
technology, and work designs (change agent).
– Coach and counsel employees and represent their views to
management (employee advocate).
– Design and deliver effect HRM systems and understand how
technology can make HRM systems more efficient and less
costly (administrative expert).
Your views on the following
• What are the significant HR trends you
observe in recent times?
– Any reasons for these?
Prepare this for the next class for a
particular company
• How has business environment changed over the
years?
• How has this organization changed over time?
• How have these changes impacted HRM practices?
• What are some specific focus areas in HRM for the
organization?
Discuss this in your group – come with a group reflection
on these questions
Prepare a ppt submission based on your research over
net and readings
Not Just a Story!
• A famous writer was in his study room. He
picked up his pen and started writing:
**Last year, I had a surgery and my gall
bladder was removed. I had to stay stuck to
the bed due to this surgery for a long time.
**The same year I reached the age of 60 years
and had to give up my favourite job. I had
spent 30 years of my life in this publishing
company.
• **The same year I experienced the sorrow of
the death of my father.
**And in the same year my son failed in his
medical exam because he had a car accident.
He had to stay in bed at hospital with the cast
on for several days. The destruction of car was
another loss.
At the end he wrote: Alas! It was such bad
year!!
• When the writer's wife entered the room, she
found her husband looking sad lost in his
thoughts. From behind his back she read what
was written on the paper. She left the room
silently and came back with another paper
and placed it on side of her husband's writing.
• When the writer saw this paper, he found this
written on it:
**Last year I finally got rid of my gall bladder
due to which I had spent years in pain.
**I turned 60 with sound health and got
retired from my job. Now I can utilize my time
to write something better with more focus
and peace.
• **The same year my father, at the age of 95,
without depending on anyone or without any
critical condition met his Creator.
**The same year, God blessed my son with a
new life. My car was destroyed but my son
stayed alive without getting any disability.
At the end she wrote:
This year was an immense blessing of God and
it passed well!!
Just a thought!
• "If you change the way you look at things, the
things you look at change.“ – Wayne Dyer
• When you judge an event or a person, you do
not as much define them as you define
yourself