Human Resource Management is an operation in companies, designed to maximize employee performance in order to meet the employer's strategic goals and objectives. It is a process of recruiting, selecting employees, providing proper orientation, induction and training and developing skills. This is a brief introductory course that explains the methodologies applied in the rapidly growing area of Human Resource Management. In addition, it also explains the issues that we come across while managing workforce diversity and the major challenges faced by HRM.
Audience
This course will be useful for students from management streams who aspire to learn the basics of Human Resource Management. Professionals, especially HR managers, regardless of which sector or industry they belong to, can use this course to learn how to apply the methods of Human Resource Management in their respective project environments.
Prerequisites
The readers of this course are expected to have a basic understanding of the complexity of projects that an HR manager handles without overshooting his resources.
COURSE MODULES
Human Resource Management (HRM) is an operation in companies designed to maximize employee performance in order to meet the employer's strategic goals and objectives. More precisely, HRM focuses on management of people within companies, emphasizing on policies and systems.
Talent management indicates the skills of attracting highly skilled workers, integrating new workers, and improving and retaining current workers to meet the current and future business objectives.
Compensation can also include non-monetary perks like a company-paid car, company-paid housing and stock opportunities. Compensation is a vital part of human resource management, which helps in encouraging the employees and improving organizational effectiveness.
Human resources do have a challenging role to play in organizational culture, as it is the employees who work for the organization, who embrace and improve a particular culture within the organization. Any desired change to the culture of the organization has to be done through the employees and by the employees.
Dispute resolution processes are the methods or techniques that a company uses to resolve any dispute that occurs in the company. In this chapter, we will see that the dispute resolution processes are broadly divided into two major types ?
Adjudicative processes ? Process like litigation or arbitration, in which a judge, jury or arbitrator is involved and determines the result on the basis of facts and proofs presented.
Consensual processes ? Process like collaborative law, mediation, conciliation, or negotiation, in which the parties attempt to reach to a settlement through mutual understanding.
International Human Resource Management (IHRM) can be defined as a set of activities targeting human resource management at the international level. It strives to meet organizational objectives and achieve competitive advantage over competitors at national and international level.