Professional Documents
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course aims :
To enable the students to understand the HR Management
CO1: and system at various levels in general and in certain
specific industries or organizations.
Controlling Organizing
Standards Assurance Structure
Measurements
Human Resource
Comparisons
Management
Actions
Leading
Motivation
Leadership
Communication
Individual and
Group Behavior
Levels of Managers
Top
Managers
Middle
Managers
First-line
Managers
In Organizations…..
Organizational Behavior
OR
The field of Organizational Behavior
has developed to help us better
understand the behavior of
individuals and Groups
Performance
Appraisal
Communication
Work
Design
Organizational
Structure
Jobs
Human
Behavior
Basic OB Model
Organization level
Group level
Individual level
Overview of HRM
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the design of
formal systems in an organization to ensure effective
and efficient use of human talent to accomplish
organizational goals.
Human Resource Management (HRM) refers
to the policies, practices, and systems that
influence employees behavior, attitudes,
and performance.
Overall purpose of HRM is to ensure that the organization
is able to achieve success through people.
Human Resource Management Process
Basic HR Concepts
• The bottom line of managing:
Getting results
• HR creates value by engaging in activities that
produce the employee behaviors that the
organization needs to achieve its strategic goals.
• Looking ahead: Using evidence-based HRM to
measure the value of HR activities in achieving
those goals.
Line and Staff Aspects of HRM
• Line Manager
– Is authorized (has line authority) to direct the
work of subordinates and is responsible for
accomplishing the organization’s tasks.
• Staff Manager
– Assists and advises line managers.
– Has functional authority to coordinate
personnel activities and enforce organization
policies.
Strategy
• Faulkner and Johnson (1992), strategy is concerned with
long term direction and scope of an organization, with
matches its resources to its changing environment.
• Strategy is a statement of what the organization wants to
become, where to go and how it means to get there.
– Competitive advantage – firm creating value for its customers by
differentiation
– Distinctive capabilities – characteristics that cannot be replicated
by competitors
– Strategic fit – matching organizational competences (internal
resources and skills) with the opportunities and risks created by
environmental change
Human
Humans are uniquely adept / skillful at utilizing
systems of symbolic communication (such as
language and art) for self-expression and the
exchange of ideas, and for organizing
themselves into purposeful groups.
Resource
A resource must add value to the organization,
it must be rare, it must be inimitable and there
must be no adequate alternates for the resource
(Barney, 1991). Human resources add
definitive value to the firms in the shape of
providing the firm with a competitive edge in
their environment.
Management