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Human resource management
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This subject guide is about human resource management (HRM). This is the
management activity taken by commercial firms, state owned enterprises
and other organisations to recruit, retain and motivate their employees. In
other words HRM is the bundle of policies, programmes and plans which
organisations adopt with the objective of making full use of the people they
employ. These include everything from recruitment and selection techniques
(which initiate the relationship between firm and employee), to the mass of
rules that determine how people are treated as current employees, and all
the way to policies on separation (which determine whether, and in what
circumstances, an employee is to be let go).
This guide takes, as its organising framework, a model of strategic
HRM advanced by Boxall and Purcell in their book
Strategy and human
resource management
(Palgrave Macmillan, third edition, 2011). They
conceptualise workforce performance as a function of
capabilities
(the
knowledge, skills and aptitudes which employees need to carry out their
work),
motivation
(the incentives which employees require to encourage
them to perform to the best of their abilities) and
work organisation
(the way that work and organisations are structured so as to allow
employees to perform well). To this we add
employment relations
(the
policies, programmes and practices which govern the relationship between
employees and employers) on the basis that employee relationship
management is a key responsibility of the HRM function. See Figure 1.
The guide follows the perspective adopted in most HRM textbooks and
looks at the subject from an organisational point of view, but it also
acknowledges that a range of other factors shape the use of HRM policies
and practices, including government and regulatory frameworks.
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Management
English
2013
London
1-66
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