Human resource management involves acquiring, developing, motivating, and maintaining human resources in an organization. It is a critical management function that must adapt to changes in the internal and external environment of organizations. Key aspects of the internal environment include organizational goals and policies, culture, and reward systems, while external factors include technological advances, workforce diversity, globalization, and legal trends. HR management plays several important roles in organizations, including as a line function, staff function, representative, coordinator, mediator, strategic partner, and integrator.

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2.  Organizations are human associations. Managing people is
an important aspect of managing an organization.
 Organization needs people and people needs organization. It
is a people who staff, direct, control organization.
 Human resource management is concerned with the people
dimensions in organization. It Is an essential function of
management.

3.  Human resource management is a process of consisting of
four function acquisition, development, motivation and
maintenance of human resource.

4.  Human focus
 Management function
 Pervasive
 Continuous commitment
 Dynamic
 System
 Mutuality-oriented

5.  Goal Achievement
 Personal Goal
 Functional Goal
 Organizational Goal
 Societal Goal

6.  Acquisition
 Development
 Utilization
 Maintenance

7.  Internal Environment
◦ Organizational goals and policies
◦ Organizational culture
◦ Reward System
◦ Labor Unions
◦ Other Organizational Activities
 External Environment
◦ Political legal
◦ Technology
◦ Socio-cultural forces
◦ Economic forces

8.  Globalization – Globalization refers to tendency of firm to extend
their sales or manufacturing for new market abroad.
 Technological changes (advances) – Technology is changing
rapidly. Organization must keep up pace with technological
changes and implement them in the workplace.
 Nature of work – Work must be identified.
 Workforce diversity – HR management should take care of varied
labor force. In the diversified workforce, HR professional must
ensure that diverse group are managed and treated equitably in
organization.
 Legal trends – Every employees should treat equally in organization

9.  Line function role
 Staff function role
 Representative role
 Coordinative role
 Mediator role
 Strategic role
 Integrative Role