Course Name: BCOMH

Semester Number: V Semester

Subject Code: BCOMH-502
Subject Name: Human Resource Management
Faculty Name: Himanshu Upadhyay
Designation: Assistant Professor
Topics: HRM: Meaning, Nature & Scope
 Human Resource Management
▪ HRM is concerned with managing the people resources of an organization.
▪ Managing human resources is the most crucial and challenging task.
▪ Crucial because it is the key to sustainability in the present competitive world
and challenging because no two individuals are same.
▪ According to Mary Parker Follett, “management is the art of getting things
done through people".
▪ Management is, "that field of human behaviour in which managers plan,
organize, staff, direct and control human, physical and financial resources in
an organized effort, in order to achieve desired individual and group activities
with optimum efficiency and effectiveness."
▪ The important resources that have to be managed by the organization include:
human, finance, operations and information.
▪ Out of these, human resource is the only resource that is living part of the
organization.
▪ Thus, human resource is a crucial sub-system in the process of management.

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 Definitions of HRM
▪ According to F. E. L. Brech, “Human Resource Management is that
part of management progress which is primarily concerned with the
human constituents of an organization.”
▪ According to Dessler, “the policies and practices involved in
carrying out the “people” or human resource aspects of a
management position, including recruiting, screening, training,
rewarding, and appraising comprises of HRM.”
▪ According to Armstrong, “Human Resource Management can be
defined as ― a strategic approach to acquiring, developing,
managing, motivating and gaining the commitment of the
organization’s key resource – the people who work in and for it.”

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 Features/Nature of HRM
▪ HRM is a pervasive function
▪ HRM is action oriented
▪ HRM is individually oriented
▪ HRM is people oriented
▪ HRM is future oriented
▪ HRM is development oriented (career planning and development,
reward structure , training, job enlargement and job rotation)
▪ HRM is an integrating mechanism
▪ HRM is a comprehensive function
▪ HRM is auxiliary service
▪ HRM is an inter-disciplinary function
▪ HRM is a continuous function
▪ HRM seeks to maximize employee motivation
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 Scope of HRM

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