Human resource management deals with issues related to an organization's workforce, including hiring, compensation, performance management, training, and other activities. The purpose of human resource management is to improve employee contributions in a way that is strategic, ethical, and socially responsible. Human resource activities aim to provide and maintain an appropriate workforce by addressing challenges like workforce diversity, global competitiveness, and unemployment. These activities include human resource planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, and compensation. An effective human resource department takes a proactive approach to anticipate problems and undertakes corrective action before issues arise.

1. Human Resource Management is the
function within an organization that deals
with issues related to people such as
compensation, hiring, performance
management, organization development,
safety, wellness, benefits, employee
motivation, communication, administration,
and training.
Mahmood Qasim

2. Global Competitive
Population-growth
Unemployment
Central Challenges:
Workforce Diversity
BETTER
ORGANIZATIONS
Ethical
Social Responsibility
Medical, Food, Housing
Unknown
Mahmood Qasim

3. The purpose of human resource
management is to improve the productive
contribution of people to the organization
in ways that are strategically, ethically, and
socially responsible.
Mahmood Qasim

4. Objectives are benchmark against which
actions are evaluated.
Organizational
Objectives
Functional
Objectives
Societal
Objective
Personal
Objective
Mahmood Qasim

5. Human Resource Activities are actions that are
taken to provide and maintain an appropriate
workforce for the organization. Not every
organization undertakes every activities. HR
departments simply focus on the activities that
are most important for the organization .
Mahmood Qasim

6. Human
Resource
Management
Activities
Human
Resource
Objectives
•Societal
•Organizational
•Functional
•Personal
Purpose of
Human
Resource
Management
Other
Resources
Human
Resources
Overall
Organizational
Objectives
Societal Needs
and
Challenges
Other
Resources
Mahmood Qasim

7. Human Resource activities are actions that are taken to provide and maintain an
appropriate workforce for the organization
When organizations
grow large
Human
Resource
Planning
As demand change
Placement,
promote,
demote ,
transfer
With an eye
towards future
needs
Recruitment
(pool of
applicants)
Subsequent HR
planning reveal
new staffing need
Recruitment
&
development
With an eye
towards future
needs
Selection
(screen
applicants)
Performance is
analyzed
Evaluation /
appraisal
New employees
are tuned to the
organization’s need
Orientation
&
Training
Compensation
Wages,
salaries,
benefits,
Employee relations
Union – management relations

9. Feedback among
activities and objectives
Human resource
activities, challenges to &
from the environment.

10. Feedback
Input
Transformation Process
Challenges
Human Resource
Education
Skills
Human Resource Management
Activities
Recruiting
 Selection
 Others
Outputs
Human Resource
Contribution
Capable Workers
 Motivated
Workers
Mahmood Qasim

11. PROACTIVE
REACTIVE
Human Resource Management
•Effective and efficient solutions are
generally more likely to be found if
managers and HR departments use
proactive approaches.
•It improves productivity by minimizing
the resources needed to respond to
changes in the environment or to
produce the organization’s goods or
services.
•It is a major step in enhancing
organizational productivity.
•It occurs when HR problems. Are
anticipated and corrective action
begins before a problem arises.
•Mangers and HR departments cannot
always wait for feedback and then
respond.
•Waiting until an actual problem occurs
and then reacting may be
inappropriate and costly.
•Reactive Human Resource
Management occurs when decision
makers respond to HR problems.
Mahmood Qasim

12. 1. Since HR department are typically seen as a cost of operations, explain how
they contribute to an organization’s ability to confront the increased
globalization of business now taking ;lace throughout the world.
2. Describe the purpose and primary objectives of an HR department.
3. Why is improved human productivity important to organizations?
4. Explain the relationship between societal needs and the activities of a human
resource department.
5. What benefits exist when the HR department is viewed with a systems
approach?
6. Why is proactive approach to human resource management more
emphasized?
7. If a Bank opened a branch in a distant city, what activities would the HR
department need to undertake before a fully operational and staffed branch
was ready for business?
Mahmood Qasim