This document discusses the functions of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. It outlines several key functions of HRM including job organization and information, acquisition, maintenance, and development of employees. For each function, it provides details on related processes like job analysis, recruitment and selection, performance evaluation, training and development. It also discusses how the size of an organization's HRM department depends on the number of employees and resources. In small agencies, HR functions may be combined with other roles, while in large agencies there are often separate and specialized HR units.

1. FUNCTIONS OF
HRM
Module 3
MPA 212
Ist Semester 2019

2. OBJECTIVES
•Different functions of HRM
•Interre;ationship with other
process of managing people in
the organization

3. INTRODUCTION• Efforts to reform the way which
governments handle the personnel
management function have a long history
in the USA as they have struggled with
changing political and economic
circumstances. These administrative
reforms are typically design to reflect new
models or emerging paradigms for public
management. With each reform,
changes, large (tidal waves) or small in
the administrative system of the
government is implemented and the
effects of those changes often last long
after the reform itself become a distant
memory. Kellough and Nigro (2006).
Public
expectations are
high, effective
public
management can
be difficult.

4. • A reform index is developed to
document the considerable variation
among the states in their approach to
personnel practices. Several state
characteristics are associated with
scores on this index, including
legislative professionalism, which
bears a positive relationship to reform,
and the level of unemployment within
a state and the proportion of state
employees associated with public
employee unions, which are both
negatively associated with reform.
The Act espoused
efficiency, as well as the
elimination of politics from
personnel decisions,
effective methods of
recruiting and selecting
and paying employees
Pendleton Act of 1883

5. HRM
Job
organization
and
information
Acquisition
Maintenance
Development
Employee’s skills, abilities, and
motives must match the job
requirements for a satisfactory
performance.
Job design specifies the tasks to be
performed by the individual employees
as well as groups within the agency. It
set out rules and regulations and
establishes working conditions under
which tasks are performed
Many recruited personnel occupy positions which do not
match with their qualifications resulting in poor performance,
absenteeism and turnover.

6. •Job analysis implies a process by
which the task and behavior of the
employee is investigated in relation
to performance of the job. The
information obtained from the
analysis is used to write job
descriptions and establish an
employee qualifications for the job.
Job descriptions are very useful in
the recruitment and selection
process

7. HRM
Job
organization
and
information
Acquisition
Maintenance
Development
Intially, this starts with the
planning of human resources by
reviewing the organization’s
human resources requirements
to:
• ensure the required number of
employees with the required skills;
• Assess its manpower needs in
relation to its goals and objectives;
• Determine the quantity and quality
of work force and ensure
competent personnel are
employed.

8. STRATEGIC PLAN
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
development
acquisition
Does the SP
relate to its
plan for staff
acquisition and
development?

9. How to retain a
competent work force?
The process include
motivation, compensation
administration, rewards
and sanctions,
performance evaluation,
benefits, services,
maintenance of discipline
and working conditions
HRM
Job
organization
and
information
Acquisition
Maintenance
Development

10. This include training and
education which are
aimed in upgrading
knowledge and skills and
improving the attitudes of
all personnel. It includes
career planning &
counseling;
HRM
Job
organization
and
information
Acquisition
Maintenance
Development

11. MODULE 4: ORGANIZATION
LOCATION OF HRM DEPARTMENT

12. THE SIZE OF HUMAN RESOURCE
• Handful of personnel depending on the number
of employees and financial resources of the
Agency
• It is combined with other section like
administration, operations and finance
Small Agencies
• Separate HR functions which tend to be more developmental and specialized.
• A separate HR does human planning, job design, analysis and evaluation,
performance appraisal and review and organization review.
• The staff becomes specialists rather than generalists.
Big Agencies

13. •Many HR units in the bureaucracy do not perform
line functions. They are not even integrated into
the top management. HR function as a whole is
not integral to the functioning of the organization
and appears to be a separate concern for line
management.