Introduction to Human

1 Resource Management

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 Learning Objectives

1-1. Explain what human resource

management is and how it relates to
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the management process.
1-2. Briefly discuss and illustrate each
of the important trends influencing
human resource management.

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 Learning Objectives

1-3. List and briefly describe

“distributed HR” and other important
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aspects of human management today.
1-4. List at least four important human
resource manager
competencies.
1-5. Outline the plan of this book.
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 I.
Explain what human
resource management
is and how1it relates to
the management process.

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 What Is Human Resource
Management?

• The Management Process

o Planning
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o Organizing
o Staffing
o Leading
o Controlling
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The topics we’ll discuss should

therefore provide you with the

concepts and techniques

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every

manager needs to perform the

“people” or personnel aspects of

management.
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 Why Is Human Resource
Management Important to All
Managers?
• To Avoid Personnel Mistakes
• To Improve Profits and Performance
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• You May Spend Some Time as an HR
Manager
• HR for Small Business – you may end
up as your own human resource
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Line and Staff Aspects of Human
Resource Management
• Authority is the right to make
decisions, to direct
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the work of
others, and to give orders.
Managers usually distinguish
between line authority and staff
authority.

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 Line and Staff Managers

• Line authority
gives you the
right to issue
orders 1
• Staff authority
gives you the
right to advise
others in the
organization

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 Line Manager’s HR
Management Responsibilities
• Placing the right
person in the
right job 1

• Starting new
employees in the
organization
(orientation)

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 Line Manager’s HR Management
Responsibilities continued

• Training
• Gaining creative
employees for
cooperation and
jobs that are new 1
developing smooth
to them
working relationships
• Improving the job
• Interpreting the
performance of
company policies and
each person
procedures

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 Line Manager’s HR Management
Responsibilities continued

• Controlling labor
• Creating and
cost
maintaining
• Developing the 1
departmental morale
abilities of each
• Protecting
person
employees’ health
and physical
conditions

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 The Human Resources Department

FIGURE 1-1 Human Resource Department

Organization Chart Showing Typical HR Job Titles
Source: “Human Resource Development Organization Chart Showing Typical HR Job Titles,” www.co.pinellas.fl.us/persnl/pdf/
orgchart.pdf. Courtesy of Pinellas County Human Resources. Reprinted with permission.

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 New Approaches To Organizing HR

• Reorganizing the HR function of how it

is organized and delivers HR services

o Shared Services 1(Transactional ) HR

teams
o Corporate HR teams
o Embedded HR teams
o Centers of expertise
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 II.
Trends Shaping Human
Resource Management
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 Trends in Human Resource

• Management
Workforce Demographics and Diversity
Trends
• Trends in How People Work
• Improving Performance
1 At Work: HR as a

Profit Center
• Globalization Trends
• Economic Trends
• Technology Trends
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 More on HR Technology Trends

• There are 5 main types of digital technologies driving

HR professionals to automation:
o Social Media 1

o Mobile Applications
o Gaming
o Cloud Computing
o Data Analytics (as known as Talent Analytics)

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Today’s New Human
Resource Management
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 Today’s New Human Resource
Management

• A Brief History of Personnel/Human

Resource Management

• Distributed HR and 1the New Human

Resource Management

• Trends Shaping HR: Digital and Social Media

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 A Quick Summary

FIGURE 1-4
What Trends Mean
for Human 1
Resource
Management

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 HR and Strategy

Strategic Human Resource Management

• Strategic human resource management –

means formulating and executing human
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resource policies and practices that
produce the employee competencies and
behaviors that the company needs to
achieve its strategic aims.

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HR and Evidence Based Management

• Evidence-based human resource

management – is the use of data, facts,
analytics, scientific rigor, critical
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evaluation, and critically evaluated
research/case studies to support human
resource management proposals,
decisions, practices, and conclusions.

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 HR and Adding Value

• Adding value – means helping the firm and

its employees improve in a measurable
way as a result of the human resources
manager’s actions.1

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HR and Performance and Sustainability

• It is about measuring companies in terms

of maximizing profits but also on their
environmental and 1social performance as
well.

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 HR and Employee Engagement

• Employee engagement – refers to being

psychologically involved in, connected to,
and committed to getting
1 one’s job done.

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 IV.
The New Human
Resource Manager
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 The New Human Resource Manager

The Society of Human Resource Management

(SHRM) has a new “competency model”
called the SHRM Body of Competency and
Knowledge that itemizes what a New HR
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Manager needs

• What should they be able to exhibit?

• What basic functional areas of HR should

they have command?

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 Human Resource Manager
Certification
• HRCI Certifications
o PHR – Professional in Human
Resources
o SPHR – Senior Professional in
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Human Resources

• SHRM now has its own competency

and knowledge based testing

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