Norton University

Faculty of Business: Year III, Academic Year 2020-2021

Chapter 1
Human Resource Managemt:
An Overview

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Chapter 1 Outline
1. Human Resource Management (HRM)
Functions
2. HR Restructuring Trends: Who Perform the
HRM Tasks? The Impact of Technology.
3. Human resource Executive, Generalists,
and Specialist
4. The Human Resource Function in
Organizations of Various Sizes.

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 Learning Objectives
1. Identify the human resource management
functions.
2. Explain how organizations are adjusting to
human resource restructuring trends.
3. Explain the need for human resources to be a
strategic partner.
4. Distinguish among executives, generalists, and
specialists.
5. Describe the changes that occur in the human
resource function as firm grows large and more
complex.

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 What is HRM ? The
Management Function that is concerned with
getting, training, motivating , and keeping
competent employees.
HRM ORGANIZATION

Efficiency Effectiveness
Productivity Goals, Objectives

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 HRM Functions
The utilization of individuals to achieve organizational
objectives.

HR Training &
Staffing Development

HRM

Employee Compensation
& Labor & Benefits
Relations
Safety &
Health

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 HRM
Staffing: The process through which an
organization ensures that it always has the
proper number of employees with the
appropriate skills in the right jobs at the right
time to achieve the organization’s objectives.
Operative employees: All Workers in an
organization except managers and
professionals, such as engineers,
accountants, and professional secretaries.
Outsourcing: The process of transferring
responsibility for an area of service and its
objectives to an external provider.
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HR Restructuring Trends: Who Performs the HRM
Tasks?

HR Managers

Out-Sourcing

Line Managers

The Impact of
Technology on HR

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 HR Executives, Generalists, and Specialists
Executive: A top-level manager who reports directly to a
corporation’s chief executive officer (CEO) or to the head
of a major division.

Generalist: A person who performs tasks in a variety of

human resource-related areas.

Specialist: An individual who may be a human resource

executive, a human resource manager, or a non-manager
and who is typically concerned with only one of the five
functionally areas of human resource management.

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HR Executives, Generalists, and Specialists

Vice President,
Vice President,
Industrial
Human Resource
Relations

Manager, Manager, Training Manager,

Compensation and And Development Staffing
Benefits

Benefits Analyst

HR Executives, Generalists, and Specialists

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The HR Functions in Organizations of
Various Sizes

Manager /
Owner

Sales Operations Finance

HR Function in a Small Business

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The HR Functions in Organizations of
Various Sizes

President

Sales Operations Finance HR

Manager Manager Manager Manager

HR Function in a Medium-Sized Business

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 The HR Functions in Organizations of
Various Sizes

President &
CEO

Vice, Vice Vice Vice

President, President, President, President,
Marketing Operations Finance HR

Manager, Manager,
Manager, Manager,
Training& Compensati Manager,
Safety & labor
Developmen on Staffing
Health Relation
t & Benefits

Traditional HR Function in a large Firm

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 The HR Functions in Organizations of
Various Sizes

President &
CEO

Vice
Vice, Vice Director of
President,
President, President, Safety and
Other Major
Operations HR Health
Functions

Executive Manager,
Outsourc Manager, Employee
Developmen Other HRM
ed Training Benefits
t Functions

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 Key Terms

Human resource management (HRM)

Staffing
Operative employees
Human resource manager
Outsourcing
Executive
Generalist
Specialist
Profession

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