Human Resourse Management

1218 Words3 Pages

What is Human Resource Management (HRM)? "It's a strategic and compre-

hensive management area that involves establishing policies, practices, and admi-

nistrative structures that focus on an organization's most valuable resource – its

people." (Dictionary.com)

HRM is always a leadership, financial, and management issue. Employee costs

usually consume 70 to 80 percent of the budget of most organizations. By managing

human resources effectively and efficiently, you will know that your workers are

satisfied and motivated, willing to perform their duties to the best of their abilities.

Effective human resource management should help employees find meaningful work

and try to provide them with career satisfaction. It may also help an organization to

improve its performance and increase success.

In this essay, I will touch upon a few major issues and try to think of ideas

which may help to resolve them.

First of all, I believe that in era of organizational reforms and shrinking bud-

gets, providing high-quality service requires strong leadership. Leaders and mana-

gers need to have:

• Accurately predict human resource needs in order to deliver services to the

public;

• A strong workforce that is properly trained and educated to help improve

customer service;

• Be able to assign staff members to the geographic areas where they are

needed;

• Good relationships with union officials (if there are any);

Also, a good leader/manager should:

• Create a positive climate for human resources;

• Create a management structure for human resources;

• Define what needs to be done;

• Make new organizational ar...

... middle of paper ...

...r, effective HRM sys-

tem that provides opportunities for employees, among other things, will motivate

workers and increase their level of job satisfaction. This can result in improving the

quality of services. Finally, it's a human resource partnership between senior mana-

gers, supervisors and other administrative personnel that makes an HRM system

work.

References

FPMD. "Improving Supervision: A Team Approach." The Family Planning Manager.

Volume 2, Number 5, October/November/December 1993.

Letts, C., W.P. Ryan, and A. Grossman. High Performance Nonprofit Organizations:

Managing Upstream for Greater Impact. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

Ulrich, Dave. Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and

Delivering Results. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Open Document