Role of Line Managers in Human Resource Management

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1. Line managers play a very crucial role in supervising, managing and making a strong bridge of
communication between the employees and the upper management. Line managers are bestowed
with the duty of recruiting and hiring talent to fill in team position as well as lending necessary
support to the new employees (Noe, et al. 2017). A line manager is expected to be very well
versed with what is the actual staff requirement in the organization so that when required he or
she can initiate alternate staffing strategy. Alternate staffing strategy is based on hiring
individuals on a part-time basis typically under a short term contact (Li-Carrillo, 2017).
Understanding the industry needs and specifically responding to the employment structure as
well as catering to employee satisfaction play a significant role. Line managers perform the most
critical duty of ensuring that the new programs are implemented in accordance with the time
frame and in an effective manner. Regular business units require such experimentation
depending o the market demand, any crisis situation or impact of various micro and macro
environmental elements on the business operations.
2. The industry experts have often advised that the human resource managers must work together
with the line managers to do utmost justice to the organizational needs. Working together, the
line managers can ensure expert handling of human resources functions which in turn makes
room for human resources professionals to dedicate more time to planned HR management
(Foss, et al. 2015). Line managers can strategically plan how an individual employee can be
made more productive and communicating the same to the HR department so that the HRM
personals can take better initiatives in fulfilling an employee’s personal and professional needs
that would help him or her achieve better. Strategic and gainful communication between HR and
line managers often involve revising and reconsidering future business demands to govern