Are UK Organizations Getting Better at Managing Their People?

ARE UK ORGANISATION
GETTING BETTER AT
MEANING THEIR PEOPLE?

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management................................3
What Knowledge, skill and behavior are needed to be an effective people manager...............................5
What HR process underpin and support management when it comes to effective performance
management............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
People management defines as a human resource management that mainly involves
recruitment, training & development and management of employees. Managing people is more
important to making strength of firm by encouraging workers towards attaining organizational
targets or objectives. In this human resource management reflects as a strategic approach that
helps manager to manage people within any situation by maximize employee performance in
service of employer strategic objectives (Bader, Schuster and Dickmann, 2020). This report
includes the contemporary issues that were face by line management at the time of people
management so that they effectively focus on that to resolve it. Further it also demonstrates
skills, knowledge and behavior that are required to be an effective people manager. At last it
elucidates HR process that support management in effective performance management by using
real world company examples like Marks and Spencer that is one of the largest multinational
retailing company in UK since 1884.
MAIN BODY
Contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management
Line management defines to that management of employees who directly involved in
delivery and production of goods and services. A Line manager is the one who directly manage
or organize other employees and operations while report to high authority manager. In present
time pandemic situation occur in all over the world due to COVID 19 because of these
companies move towards the work from home or working online that impacted the manner that
is used for interaction among manager, HR and employees. In this management face several
types of issues when to manage people of an organisation (Kahn and Baum, 2020). In this some
contemporary issues that were face by line manager in managing people are demonstrated below:
 Employee communication- It is one of the major contemporary issue that was face by
line manager in terms of managing people. Communication is a critical aspect whether to
work in office environment or working remotely. Without getting right information it is
very complex to manage workforce effectively and efficiently. In the time of COVID 19
line management face complexity in delivering the correct information to workforce.