HRM Notes

What is HRM?

  • Management achieves organizational goals effectively and efficiently through planning, organizing, leading, and monitoring resources while respecting individual-organization relationships.
  • Organizational resources are crucial; shareholders invest in firms expecting success.
  • Labor costs are significant, requiring efficient worker performance.

People as Organizational Resources

  • Human Machines: Avoid overexertion to prevent breakdowns (burnout, sickness).
    • Motivate and manage, but recognize limits to sustain healthy engagement.
    • Update skills through retraining and coaching for continued effectiveness.
    • Predict human behavior to optimize investment returns.

Four Key Management Functions

  • Planning: Determine production goals and required personnel types.
    • Align staff with organizational objectives (e.g., clothing store vs. computer company).
  • Organizing: Structure the work environment for efficiency.
    • Organize factories to execute plans.
  • Leading: Motivate workers for improved performance.
  • Monitoring: Assess performance for greater efficiency.

Team Effort

  • HRM is a team effort, with supervisors playing a crucial role.
  • Supervisors lead teams and need HRM skills.
  • HR provides skills for supervisors

Direct Impact of HR

  • HRM's direct impacts include team building, shaping company culture and employer brand, conducting surveys, and navigating social law.
    • Team Building: HR organizes activities with specific learning objectives.
    • Company Culture & Employer Brand (EB): Communicating company values to attract aligned employees.

Social Law

  • Supervisors must understand social law to avoid legal missteps.
  • Important to check the legality of actions.

Role of the Manager

  • HR can educate managers to prevent errors and promote better leadership.
  • HR tries to diminish damages and educate managers
  • Operational HR tasks include job interviews, performance monitoring, and motivational leadership.

HR Tasks by Employees

  • Employees can also perform HR tasks by supporting colleagues.
  • HR practices involve everyone in the organization.

A Good HR

  • A good HR must be EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, and CALCULATED

Effective

  • Deliver on promises to build trust.
  • Act on commitments to foster growth.

Efficient

  • Stay within budget and use resources wisely.

Calculated

  • Develop business cases for HR programs, demonstrating return on investment (ROI).
  • Use sciences and economics to prove the return on investment

Why Organizational Goals Are Important

  • Shareholders expect profits exceeding bank interest rates.

Managing Humans

  • HR involves hard decisions; supervisors need skills to lead teams effectively.

Hard Decisions

  • Restructuring can lead to difficult decisions like firing employees due to economic turmoil.
  • Terminating hits the lives and emotions of the staff hard

Empathy

  • Empathy >< misplaced empathy

HR is not a charity

  • HR focuses on fulfillment and contributing to organizational goals, not just happiness.
  • The priority of HR is the business, but they know that if you feel happier in the business, you’ll work better
  • HR is more a means than an end