HRM Notes (An abstract from Dr. Jamil's first lecture)

Dear semester 1,2,3 colleagues, I have compiled an abstract from Dr. Jamil's lecture on HRM and hope that you will find it useful.


Management:

 Management is getting things through people so, it is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals working together in groups to efficiently accomplish selected aims.
 According to Walter D. Scot
• Management is that activity in an enterprise which strives to mould human resources into an effective organization.
• It provides opportunity of maximum individual contributions.
• It promotes individual development and encourages mutual confidence.
• It encourages understanding between employees and the employer as well as among employees themselves.

Importance of management:
• Makes work easier
• Improves relationship
• Quality of work improves.
• Harmonious work.
• Lessens irritations and fractions.
MANGMENT IS CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
BUT
Managers tend to deal with problems in one of three ways
• Avoid them- refuse to recognize that a problem exists.
• Solve them as necessary- i-e deal with the urgent.
• Seek them out- anticipate to avoid them becoming urgent.

 Creative problem solving is accomplished through four functions of management;
 Planning
 Organizing
 Leading
 Controlling

1.Planning:

 Planning is concerned with the future impact of today’s decisions.
 Planning involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve them, it requires decision making that is choosing future courses of action from among alternatives.
 It is the fundamental function of management from which organizing, staffing, leading and controlling functions stem out.
 Planning must thus clearly state the following points
1. What is to be done.
2. How much of it.
3. Where it is to be done.
4. When it is to be done.
5. When is is to be completed.

2. Organizing:

 Organizing is established the internal organizational structure of the organization. The focus is on division, coordination and control of tasks and flow of information within the organization.
 Managers distribute responsibility and authority to job holders. It is that part of management that involves intentional in the sense that all the tasks necessary to accomplish goals are assigned to people who can do them best.

3. Staffing:

 Staffing involves filling and keeping filled the positions in the organization structure.
This is to be done by:
1. Identifying workforce requirement.
2. Inventorying the people available.
3. Recruiting, selecting and placing.
4. Promoting, appraising and planning the carriers
5. Compensating and training.

4. Directing:

 Directing is influencing people’s behavior through motivation, communication group dynamics, leadership and discipline.
 The purpose of directing is to channel the behavior of all personnel to accomplish the organization’s mission and objectives, while simultaneously helping them accomplish their own career objectives.

MOTIVATION :

 Selecting, training, evaluation and discipline cannot guarantee a high level of employee performance.
 Motivation, the inner force that directs employee behavior, also plays an important role.
 Highly motivated people perform better than unmotivated people.
 Motivation covers up ability and skill deficiencies in employees.

Three ways of looking motivation are:

1. Needs
2. Rewards
3. Effort.
1.The needs approach stems from the notion that people’s unsatisfied needs drive their behavior.
Thus
Figure out a person’s needs, satisfy the needs and the person will be motivated.
(For. Example, a person with a need to have logic facilities to satisfy the organizational objectives is motivated by provision of computers etc)

2. The rewards approach is based on the exception that rewards behavior is repeated.
Giving a person a bonus for excellent performance for a difficult and challenging task encourages the person to make a special effort during the next assignment.

3.The effort approach to motivation is based on the exception that effort brings the worker what he or she wants.

The thought that working hard leads to advancement and new career opportunities is consistent with the effort approach.
The effort approach includes a presumption that the employer is fair i-e, effort is recognized and rewarded.

Thank you Durani Saib for updating us it is appreciated.

Regards

I appreciate the efforts of naeem durrani in contributing to the forum. After dr abuzar finally I have another capable student who is helping me in this forum. Keep it up durrani and well done

Thanks for the encouragement Sir

You are most welcome naeem and keep the wheel spinning :-)