Human Resource Management Overview
Human Resource Management Overview
Introduction
1. Introduction
HR practices involve the strategic operation of HR. they form the foundation and
guidance for managing the company’s employees and should coordination with the
executive business plan.
Human resource management practices play an important role in the part of the
social exchange which characterizes employment relations, and in which the
components of its practices helps to manage and understand the better relationship
of the human resource in the organization. All most all developing countries are
trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. In spite of such
efforts, employee's indiscipline, politicized labor unions, low individual
productivity and unsatisfactory enterprise performance are some of the commonly
observed realties in most of the organization. Because of the prevalent socio-
economic conditions, these countries are placed at competitive disadvantages even
when they have huge of technical competent human resources. Most professional
manager in these countries expresses frustration over the situation but seem to
suffer from a withdrawal syndrome symptomatic of inaction and helplessness.
Recently, several attempts have been made to explain the ineffective utilization of
human resources in India These attempts provide different perspectives for our
understanding, but argue for developing a systemic rather than piecemeal approach
to the study of human resource management practices.
Many organizations have started to realize that Human Resource Managers must
take a proactive role on the employee's [Link] knowledge, skills, creative
abilities, talents and aptitudes of an organisation’s workforce, as well as the value,
attitudes and beliefs of the individuals involved. It does mean that the management
can get and use the skill, knowledge, ability etc.
Different terms are used to denote human resource management. They are labour
management labour administration, labour management relations employee
employer relations, industrial relations, personal administration, personal
management, human capital management, human asset management, human
resources management and the like. Though these terms can be differentiated
widely, the basic nature of distinction lies in the scope or coverage and
evolutionary stage.
Human resource management is a management function that helps manager recruit,
select, train and development for members function obviously; HRM is concerned
with the people’s dimension in organisation.
Human Resource Management is a function involving procurement of suitable
human resources train and develop their competences motivate them reward them,
effectively and create inpart of the management team whose aim should be to
rendered dedicated and committed service for the success and growth of the
organization.
Organization and individual should develop and progress simultaneously for their
survival and attainment of mutual goals. So every modern management has to
develop the organization through human resources. Employee is a specialized
function and is one of the fundamental operative functions for human resources
management.
Why name 'Human Resource Management'?
Human: refers to the skilled workforce in the organisation.
Resource: refers to limited availability or scarceness.
Management: refers how to optimize and make best use of such limited and
a scarce resource so as to meet the ordination goals and objectives.
1.2Meaning of Human Resource Management
1.3 Definition
Many great scholars had defined human resource management in different ways
and with different words, but the core meaning of the human resource management
deals with how to manage people or employees in the organization.
According to Edwin Flippo - HRM as “planning, organizing, directing,
controlling of procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance
and separation of human resources to the end that individual, organizational and
social objectives are achieved”
This is one of the major responsibilities of the human resource team. The
HR managers come up with plans and strategies for hiring the right kind of
people. They design the criteria which is best suited for a specific job
description. Their other tasks related to recruitment include formulating the
obligations of an employee and the scope of tasks assigned to him or her.
Based on these two factors, the contract of an employee with the company is
prepared. When needed, they also provide training to the employees
according to the requirements of the organisation. Thus, the staff members
get the opportunity to sharpen their existing skills or develop specialized
skills which in turn, will help them to take up some new roles.
Performance-Appraisals
HRM encourages the people working in an organisation, to work according
to their potential and gives them suggestions that can help them to bring
about improvement in it. The team communicates with the staff individually
from time to time and provides all the necessary information regarding their
performances and also defines their respective roles. This is beneficial as it
enables them to form an outline of their anticipated goals in much clearer
terms and thereby, helps them execute the goals with best possible efforts.
Performance appraisals, when taken on a regular basis, motivate the
employees.
Managing-Disputes
The responsibility of establishing good public relations lies with the HRM to
a great extent. They organize business meetings, seminars and various
official gatherings on behalf of the company in order to build up
relationships with other business sectors. Sometimes, the HR department
plays an active role in preparing the business and marketing plans for the
organization too.
Any organization, without a proper setup for HRM is bound to suffer from
serious problems while managing its regular activities. For this reason,
today, companies must put a lot of effort and energy into setting up a strong
and effective HRM.
1.6 Objectives of human resource management
The primary objective of HRM is to ensure the availability of right people for right
jobs so as the organizational goals are achieved effectively.
HR Strategy Planning:
Recruitment:
Compensation:
Safety:
HRM plays a vital role in ensuring safe and sound working conditions to the
employee. This department executes Workplace Safety and Risk
Management Policies by maintaining correct work logs and records, and
setting programs in order to reduce incident of workplace injuries and
fatalities.
No to Liability Claims:
HR Department lays its prime focus towards offering the required training
and development programs to forge a strong employer-employee
relationship.
1. Managerial Functions,
2. Operative Functions, and
3. Advisory Functions
In this function of HRM, the number and type of employees needed to accomplish
organizational goals is determined. Research is an important part of this function,
information is collected and analyzed to identify current and future human resource
needs and to forecast changing values, attitude, and behavior of employees and
their impact on organization. To get things done through the subordinates, a
manager must plan ahead. Planning is necessary to determine the goals of the
organization and lay down policies and procedures to reach the goals. For a human
resource manager, planning means the determination of personnel programs that
will contribute to the goals of the enterprise, i.e., anticipating vacancies, planning
job requirements, job descriptions and determination of the sources of recruitment.
Firstly, a supply and demand forecast for each job category is made. This step
requires knowledge to both labour market conditions and the strategic posture and
goals of the organization.
Secondly, net shortage and excess of personnel by job category are projected for a
specific time horizon.
Finally, plans are developed to eliminate the forecast shortages and excess of
particular categories of human resources.
Organizing –
Directing –
In other words, the direction function is meant to guide and motivate the people to
accomplish the personnel programs. The personnel manager can motivate the
employees in an organization through career planning, salary administration,
ensuring employee morale, developing cordial relationships and provision of safety
requirements and welfare of employees.
The motivational function poses a great challenge for any manager. The personnel
manager must have the ability to identify the needs of employees and the means
and methods of satisfy those needs. Motivation is a continuous process as new
needs and expectations emerge among employees when old ones are satisfied.
Controlling –
2. Operative Functions:
The operative functions are those tasks or duties which are specifically entrusted to
the human resource or personnel department. These are concerned with
employment, development, compensation, integration and maintenance of
personnel of the organization
Recruitment of candidates is the function preceding the selection, which brings the
pool of prospective candidates for the organization so that the management can
select the right candidate from this pool.
The first operative function of the human resource of personnel department is the
employment of proper kind and number of persons necessary to achieve the
objectives of the organization. This involves recruitment, selection, placement, etc.
of the [Link] these processes are performed, it is better to determine the
manpower requirements both in terms of number and quality of the personnel.
Recruitment and selection cover the sources of supply of labour and the devices
designed to select the right type of people for various jobs. Induction and
placement of personnel for their better performance also come under the
employment or procurement function.
Job Analysis and Design –
Job analysis is the process of describing the nature of a job and specifying the
human requirements like qualification, skills, and work experience to perform that
job. Job design aims at outlining and organizing tasks, duties, and responsibilities
into a single unit of work for the achievement of certain objectives.
Performance Appraisal –
Human resource professionals are required to perform this function to ensure that
the performance of employee is at acceptable level.
This function of human resource management helps the employees to acquire skills
and knowledge to perform their jobs effectively. Training an development
programs are organized for both new and existing employees. Employees are
prepared for higher level responsibilities through training and development.
For this purpose, the personnel departments will device appropriate training
programs. There are several on- the-job and off-the-job methods available for
training purposes. A good training program should include a mixture of both types
of methods. It is important to point out that personnel department arranges for
training not only of new employees but also of old employees to update their
knowledge in the use of latest techniques.
Compensation:
Factors which must be borne in mind while fixing the remuneration of personnel
are their basic needs, requirements of jobs, legal provisions regarding minimum
wages, capacity of the organization to pay, wage level afforded by competitors etc.
For fixing the wage levels, the personnel department can make use of certain
techniques like job evaluation and performance appraisal.
This function refers to various services, benefits, and facilities that are provided to
employees for their well being. Human resource is considered as asset for the
organisation. Employee turnover is not considered good for the organisation.
Human resource management always try to keep their best performing employees
with the organization.
Merely appointment and training of people is not sufficient; they must be provided
with good working, conditions so that they may like their work and workplace and
maintain their efficiency. Working conditions certainly influence the motivation
and morale of the employees.
These include measures taken for health, safety, and comfort of the workforce. The
personnel department also provides for various welfare services which relate to the
physical and social well-being of the employees. These may include provision of
cafeteria, rest rooms, counseling, group insurance, education for children of
employees, recreational facilities, etc.
Motivation:
Employees work in the organisation for the satisfaction of their needs. In many of
the cases, it is found that they do not contribute towards the organisational goals as
much as they can. This happens because employees are not adequately motivated.
The human resource manager helps the various departmental managers to design a
system of financial and non-financial rewards to motivate the employees.
Industrial Relations:
The human resource manager can do a great deal in maintaining industrial peace in
the organisation as he is deeply associated with various committees on discipline,
labour welfare, safety, grievance, etc. He helps in laying down the grievance
procedure to redress the grievances of the employees. He also gives authentic
information to the trade union leaders and conveys their views on various labour
problems to the top management.
Separation:
Labour Relations –
Personnel Research –
The Study and analyze the HRM practices adopted by the organization
To evaluate the perception of the employees towards the HRM practices of
the organization
To study the factors effecting employee satisfactions towards HRM practices
of the organization
To offer suitable suggestions to the problems encountered during the study
Data refers to information or facts however it also includes descriptive facts, non-
numerical information, qualitative and quantitative information
Primary data
Secondary data
Secondary data
Secondary data are data; wich cannot be traced back to the level of individual cases
of statistical unit. In contrast to primary data it does not allow for mathematical
calculation such as determining an arithmetic mean, a [Link]
The survey was conducted only for the sample size respondents.
Lack of co-operation by organization to disclose the information.
Interaction employee was very limited because of their busy schedule.
The time limit for the study was very short and insufficient.
Bennet (1996) described that CRM seeks to establish long term, committed,
trusting and cooperative relationship with customers characterized by openness,
genuine concern for the delivery of high quality services, responsiveness to
customer suggestions, fair dealings and willingness to sacrifice short term
advantage for long term gains. As suggested by (Levitt, 1986; Gronroos, 1994;
Morgan, 1994; Gummesson, 1999; Bejouetal, 1998) trust, commitment, ethical
practices, fulfilment of promises, mutual exchange, emotional bonding,
personalisation and customer orientation have been reported to be the key elements
in the relationship building process. Schneider and Bowen (1999) suggested that
companies manage how to implement concern for customer needs in all actions
that might influence.
Schuler (1992) suggests that Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has
many different components, including policies, culture, values and practices.
Strategic business needs of an organization are influenced by its internal (which
mainly consist of factors such as organizational culture and nature of business) and
external characteristics (consisting of the nature and state of economy in which the
organization is existing and critical success factors, i. e., opportunities and threats
provided by the industry), which are influenced by HR activities.
Thornhill, Lewis, Millmore, and Saunders (2000) found a potential role for HR-
centred strategies to be used to change or realign the culture of an organization. An
organization can change its culture through its recruitment strategy of replacing
managers with those from outside, restructuring the organization, downsizing the
workforce, training programmes, new reward strategies and performance
management to alter employee behaviours or reinforce emergent ones. After the
economic liberalization, Indian organizations were under pressure to change from
low-cost, indigenous, less efficient and outdated technology to high-cost modern
technology and prepare people to use it. This was done to develop and maintain
their competitive edge in the larger business environment (Khan, 1999).
Fombrun, Tichy, and Devanna (1984) expanded these premises and developed
the model of SHRM, which emphasises a ‘tight fi t’ between the organizational
strategy, organizational structure and HR system. Political, economic and cultural
forces are responsible for an organization’s mission and strategy. This explains
these causal relations, which form the ‘tight fi t’ between strategy, organization
structure and HR polices and practices. On the basis of mission and strategy, the
shape of organization is structured, i.e., people are organized to carry out different
tasks to achieve the organization’s mission.
Mr. R. K. Raoin his article” management by values" (personnel today, vol. xx,
no.3, oct-dec; 1999) has mentioned about the importance of ethics in an
organization and management. According to him an organization that follows a set
of guiding beliefs and communicates those ethical values to its employees to
follow them and thus institutionalize as a culture, can win and sustain loyalty of the
customers for longer period of time. Also, such organizational culture has a
positive impact on the performance of its employees. True cost of employee
turnover has long been underappreciated and underestimated by human resource
managers and all stakeholders entangled in the issue (Mohanty, 2009). Internal
marketing concept in organization has long been viewed by several researchers.
White, and Poul (1998) developed and tested a model of the effects of the service
oriented climates in bank branches on customer satisfaction. They took some HRM
factors e.g. participation, leadership and training and treated these as foundation
variables important to create climates for service. They found some support for
inferring that HRM factors influenced theclimate for service and found that climate
had a reciprocal cause-effect relationship with customer satisfaction.
Garvin (1988) and Zemke (1989) examined internal service quality from different
perspectives; they shared a fundamental underlying belief that the organizations
attempting to deliver service quality to their external customers must do so by
serving the needs of their internal customers first. Berry (1981); Gronroos (1990)
and Gummesson (1990) stated that if a management wanted its employees to
deliver an outstanding level of service to customers, it must be prepared to do a
great job with its employees. Gronroos (1981) stated that internal marketing should
create an internal environment which supports customer consciousness among
staff.
Chapter scheme:
3.1 Introduction
3.2meaning of MSME
MSME is stand for micro small and medium enterprise it was introduce by
the government of India in agreement with the micro, small, and medium
enterprises development act of 2006
The micro, small and medium enterprises sector in India just like the
population, only second to China. In financial year 2020, the total number of
MSMEs in the country was more than 63 million. The majority comprised of
micro enterprises, with a higher number in rural areas than urban parts of the
country. More often than not, these were run by the owners with little or no
support and revenue earnings as a priority.
MSME significance
MSMEs are vital for the economy in terms of their contribution to the
market and generation of employment in the country. The manufacturing
output of MSMEs was close to 30 trillion Indian rupees during financial year
2015. The output from the enterprises also accounted for an almost 31
percent contribution to the GDP in the same financial year. A glance at the
enterprises. Between the two sectors, the dominant hand is laid by the
service sector, which had an employment figure of approximately 50
million, whereas the manufacturing sector could only pull off half that
number. Most of the employment comes from unregistered enterprises, with
hesitations and avoidance of the difficult registration process quite evident.
The saying “small things make the largest impact” holds true for MSMEs in
India where small enterprises had a fixed asset value of over two trillion
Indian rupees. With more infrastructural input and a simplified process of
registration and receiving benefits from the government, MSMEs in the
country are destined to go a long way.
3.4.1Innovation
Innovations are not meant for only large firms which happen through
rational and analytical approach. In the existing competitive market, MSME
should take an initiative to use all unmet needs and convert them as
opportunities for its growth against the large firms. The literature indicates
that MSMEs have a significant potential that favors innovation. As against
big players, the MSMEs can distinguish themselves with less bureaucracy in
R & D system, ability to react quickly to the market demands and also less
of goal conflicts among employee and employer. In case of MSMEs,
employer strategy to grow is only to seek the opportunity and convert them
as innovative product…
3.5 Human resource issues in MSME
Indian MSMEs also play a significant role for Nation development through
the high contribution to Domestic Production, Significant Export Earnings,
Low Investment Requirements, Operational Flexibility, Location Wise
Mobility, Low Intensive Imports, Capacities to Develop Appropriate
Indigenous Technology, Import Substitution, Contribution towards the
Defense Production, Technology – Oriented Industries, Competitiveness in
Domestic and Export Markets and Generate new entrepreneurs by providing
knowledge, training and practice. MSMEs that have a strong technological
base, innovative, inventive, international business outlook, competitive spirit
and willingness to restructure them as they can withstand the Present
challenges and come out successfully to contribute 22% to GDP.
face unique challenges that stem largely from their size. While economies of
scale permit larger organizations to employ a team of specialists to address
the complexities involved in managing HR programs, this is not a viable
option for many MSME‟s. However, there has been little to no attention
paid to the role these strategic human resource management practices of
MSME‟s in bringing about the sustainability of the business. The
uniqueness of the MSME‟s forces the HR managers to be creative and make
some major amendments in their policies. Most of the MSME‟s failed to
achieve their individual objectives due to the lack of human resources and
the organization capabilities. Other reasons were probably because there was
a little invention, lack of skilled or know-how workers, traditional methods
of operation, cash flow and difficulties in obtaining financial support from
financial institutions or the government, lack of human resources
development, high level of international competition; lack of willingness to
spend on technology facilities. The market place for talented, skilled people
is competitive and expensive. Taking on new staff can be disruptive to
existing employees. Also, it takes time to develop 'cultural awareness',
product/ process/ organization knowledge and experience for new staff
members. As organizations vary in size, aims, functions, complexity,
construction, the physical nature of their product, and appeal as employers,
so do the contributions of human resource management. But, in most the
ultimate aim of the function is to: "ensure that at all times the business is
correctly staffed by the right number of people with the skills relevant to the
business needs. MSME‟s faces a number of problems - absence of adequate
and timely banking finance, limited capital and knowledge, non-availability
of suitable technology, low production capacity, ineffective marketing
strategy, identification of new markets, constraints on modernization&
expansions, non availability of highly skilled labour at affordable cost,
follow up with various government agencies to resolve problems etc.
Chapter 4
Data analyses and interpretation
4.1 Introduction
Data analyses are the process of systematically applying statistical and or logical to
describe and illustrate, condense and recap and evaluate the data. An essential
component of ensuring data integrity is the accurate and appropriate analyses of
research findings.
This chapter deals with the data analysis and interpretation. For the purpose of the study
data were collected by way of administering questionnaires to the private sectors
employee. Analysis involves organizing the data in a manner, while interpretation is that
which explains the facts and figures.
The survey has been successfully carried out and the respondents gave good and
realistic answers to the questions. The information collected from the respondents is
tabulated, processed and analyzed to get some meaningful inferences.
Tabulation is the part of technical procedure where in the classified data are put in the
form of tables. After analyzing the data, the researcher should have to explain the
findings on the basis of some theory. It is known as interpretation. The data has been
collected from 50 employees. On HRM Practices,
Table 4.1: Classification of the Respondents Based on their Gender
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Interpretation: The above table and chart reveals that among 50(100%)
respondents, 80% of respondents belong to male category and 20% of the
respondents belong to female category. Thus from the above data it is found that
the highest respondents (80%) were male.
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Interpretation: The above table and graphs shows that out of 50(100%)
respondents 18-20 years old are 20%, 21-30 are 40%, 31-40 are 20% 41-50 are
16% and 50 above were 4% in the company.
Thus from the above data shows that majority 56% of the respondents
belong to the age group of 26-35 years.
married unmarried
40%
60%
Interpretation: The above table and chart shows that among 50 (100%)
respondents, 40% of the respondents are married where as 60% of the respondents
are unmarried.
From the above data it is found that majority of the respondents were
unmarried.
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Interpretation:
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employees were in
nuclear family and 60 % of the employees were lived from joint family.
From the above data it is found that majority of the respondents were
belongs to joint family
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Interpretation: The above graph shows that out of 50 respondents 20% of the
employees have less than 1 year experience, 50% 1-5 years, 14% 5-10 years, 10%
10-15 years and 6% having the job experience of above 15 years.
The majority of the respondents are having 1-5 years of the work
experience.
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From this data we can interpret that majority 32% of the employees have
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Interpretation: The above graph shows that out of 50 respondents 28% of the
employees were completed SSLC, 20% of the employees were completed PUC,
8% of the employees were completed graduation, 4% of the employees were
completed post-graduation and 40% of the employees were completed other
course.
Thus from the study it is observed that majority of employees are hold other
qualification.
Table 4.10: Classification of the Respondents Based on their opinion aboutmethod of
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employees were joined the company through advertisement, 30% were joined from
third party recruitment, 0% from college recruitment, 0% from job fairs, 10% from
employee referrals and 50% of them are joined walk in interview.
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Interpretation:
The above graph shows that out of 50 respondents 20% strongly agree, 40% agree,
20 % neutral, 14% disagree and 6% strongly disagree for Effectiveness of selection
process in organization. 40% strongly agree, 20% agree, 20% neutral, 12%
disagree, 8% strongly disagree for increase efficiency in the organization.
36%strongly agree, 40%agree, 10% neutral, 10% disagree and 4% strongly
disagree for increase efficiency in organization activities. 30% strongly agree, 40%
agree, 20 % neutral, 10% disagree and 0% strongly disagree for selection process
depends on source of recruitment. 30% strongly agree, 40% agree, 20 % neutral,
10% disagree and 6% strongly disagree for increase in selection if recruitment
result are good. 20% strongly agree, 60% agree, 4 % neutral, 12% disagree and 4%
strongly disagree for selection depends on recruiter. 36% strongly agree, 34%
agree, 20 % neutral, 10% disagree and 0% strongly disagree for interviews are
filter of selection process.20% strongly agree, 30% agree, 20 % neutral, 6%
disagree and 4% strongly disagree for different methods of recruitment. 36%
strongly agree, 34% agree, 16 % neutral, 14% disagree and 0% strongly disagree
for it recruitment should be knowledgeable. 20% strongly agree, 30% agree, 20 %
neutral, 10% disagree and 20% strongly disagree for behaviour of recruiter.
CHAPTER- 5
5.1 FINDINGS:
A following are the major finding that the researcher came across in the study of
effectiveness of training program on the performance of employees.
It is found that a majority (40) percent of the respondents were in the age
group between 21-30 years.
The majority 50 percent of the respondents were having 1-5 years of service.
About their monthly income it is observed that most of the employees have
Rs 5000 to10,000.
Number of employees are completed lower level education like SSLC and
PUC just few of them have completed higher studies
Performance appraising techniques used by the organization are very old and
traditional it may not give clear picture of real performance.
5.2 SUGGESIONS:
Vishveshwarayya alloy casting pvt ltd currently has Performance related meetings
once in a year but these meetings to be conducted more frequently in a year,
because it will help employees to correct their loopholes immediately. Rather than
waiting for whole year.
5.3 CONCLUSION:
Human resource management plays a crucial role in fostering employee motivation by taking proactive steps to manage motivation levels . This includes developing skills, setting appropriate compensation, and ensuring the alignment of individual goals with organizational objectives, thereby enhancing team commitment and performance .
Different educational qualifications among employees imply that HRM must tailor its training and development programs to suit diverse educational backgrounds. Diverse qualifications could necessitate varied approaches to learning and engagement to ensure all employees' skills are developed to meet organizational needs effectively .
The relationship between organizational goals and HRM objectives is intrinsic, as HRM involves acquiring, developing, and managing an organization's workforce to meet these goals. HRM ensures that employee skills and motivations align with business objectives, facilitating the attainment of both individual and organizational goals .
Adopting a systemic approach in HRM is significant as it allows for a comprehensive understanding and more effective management of the human resources within an organization. This approach looks at HRM practices holistically as part of a larger system, improving integration with organizational goals and enhancing overall performance, unlike piecemeal approaches which may address issues superficially without addressing core problems .
To address the ineffective utilization of human resources in India, HRM practices can be realigned to focus on developing a systemic approach rather than addressing issues piecemeal. This involves improving HR strategies to better align with organizational objectives, enhancing motivation, and correcting socio-economic barriers that hinder productivity . Furthermore, emphasizing continuous training, transparent communication, and collaborative labor relations could address some systemic issues .
Human resources management can overcome competitive disadvantages by focusing on strategic human capital development, such as enhancing skills and competencies, motivating employees, and fostering better labor relations . By implementing a holistic HRM strategy that aligns with business goals and addresses local socio-economic challenges, organizations in developing nations can mitigate these competitive disadvantages .
MSMEs face challenges such as lack of timely banking finance, limited capital, non-availability of suitable technology, low production capacity, ineffective marketing strategies, and skilled labor shortages at affordable costs. These issues complicate the HRM function, making recruitment and retention of skilled employees challenging and limiting expansion and modernization efforts .
Socio-economic conditions in developing countries often lead to challenges like indiscipline among employees, politicized labor unions, low productivity, and unsatisfactory enterprise performance, which impact the effectiveness of human resource management practices . These conditions create a competitive disadvantage despite having technically competent human resources, leading to frustrations and a sense of helplessness among managers .
The management of human relations is crucial in HRM because human beings differ from physical production factors in having diverse needs, perceptions, and expectations. Effective HRM requires handling these differences skillfully to maintain motivation, ensure job satisfaction, and boost performance, ultimately meeting both individual and organizational objectives .
Human Resource Management is a pervasive function because it is involved in all levels and departments of an organization, not just within the HR department. All managers, regardless of their department, perform HR-related tasks such as managing employees, hiring, and training, making HRM integral to overall organizational operations .