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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