Explain why human resource management is important to an organization? How external influences affect human resource management . Explain environmental factors affecting human resource management.

1. Human Resource Management
Human Management

2. Question
 Explain why human resource management is
important to an organization? How external
influences affect human resource
management . Explain environmental factors
affecting human resource management.
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3. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 Prior to the mid-1960s, personnel
departments in organizations were often
perceived as the “health and happiness”
crews.4 Their primary job activities involved
planning company picnics, scheduling
vacations, enrolling workers for health-care
coverage, and planning retirement parties.

4. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 The role of human resource managers has changed.
HRM jobs today require a new level of
sophistication.
 Federal and state employment legislation has
placed new requirements on employers.
 Jobs have become more technical and skilled.
 Traditional job boundaries have become blurred
with the advent of such things as project teams
and telecommuting.
 Global competition has increased demands for
productivity.

5. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 Global competition has increased the importance of
improving workforce productivity and looking
globally for the best-qualified workers. Thus,
companies need HRM specialists trained in
psychology, sociology, organization and work
design, and law.
 Federal legislation requires organizations to hire the
best-qualified candidate without regard to race, age,
religion, color, gender, or national origin—and
someone must ensure that this is done.

6. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 HRM Certification
 Colleges and universities offer HR
programs.
 The Society for Human Resource
Management and Human Resource
Certification Institute offer professional
certification.

7. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 Many companies today recognize the
importance of people in meeting their goals.
HRM must therefore balance two primary
responsibilities: assisting the organization in its
strategic direction and representing and
supporter for the organization’s employees.
 Clearly, HRM has a significant role in today’s
organizations.5 HRM must be forward
thinking.

8. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 HRM must not simply react to what
“management” states. Rather, HRM must take
the lead in assisting management with the
“people” component of the organization.
 Moreover, an organization’s employees can
assist in gaining and maintaining a competitive
advantage.
 Attracting and keeping such employees
requires HRM policies and practices that they
desire.

9. Why is HRM Important to an
Organization?
 Being a strategic partner also involves
supporting the business strategy.
 This means working with line management
in analyzing organizational designs, the
culture, and performance systems, and
recommending and implementing changes
where necessary.

10. How External Influences Affect
HRM
Strategic/dynamic Environment of hrm
Governmental Legislation
Labor Unions
 current Management Thought/practice

11. How External Influences Affect
HRM
 HRM Strategic Environment includes:
 Globalization
 Technology
 Work force diversity
 Changing skill requirements
 Continuous improvement
 Work process engineering
 Decentralized work sites
 Teams
 Employee involvement
 Ethics

12. Environmental Factors
Affecting Human Resource
 Political
 Economic
 Legal
 Cultural
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