Special Topics-HRM

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SPECIAL TOPICS IN HRM

Main Tasks of HRM


• Right results – Through people
• Right people for the right jobs
• Motivating these folks
• Measuring their productivity
• Develop their full potential
Missing Focus for HR
• Improving productivity
• Increasing quality
• Facilitating mergers and acquisitions
• Managing knowledge
• Improving organizations ability to bring new product/services to
market
Line versus Staff Authority
• Line Managers
• Carry the burden of the bottom line
• HRM
• Lightens the load from a people perspective
• Implied or borrowed authority
• Functional control (speaks for management)
• Employee advocate (conscious of the organization)
Role of Line Managers in HR
functions
• See page 6 for the list of ten activities that are clearly HR in nature.
Changing Environment
• More HR executives come from outside the field (25%)
• Globalization
• Technology (IT will play an important role. Moving traditional HR
functions to the Intranet)
• HR being tied to performance metrics
Core Competencies
• Knowledge of Employment Law
• Soft Leadership Skills
• High ethical standards
• Technology skills (Human Resources Information Systems

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