Introduction to People Management

INTRODUCTION TO PEOPLE
MANAGEMENT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Contemporary issues face by line management in context of people management....................3
Knowledge, skill and behaviour that are need for effective people manager..............................4
HR process and support management require for effective performance management..............6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
People management is process of training, motivating and directing employees to make
optimum use of their existing capabilities, knowledge and skills for growth and development of
company. Human resource manager is responsible for managing people in the organisation as it
recruit, select and retained talented employees within firm so that all task can be smoothly
completed. The manager ensure that people are provided with appropriate training and
development program so that they are aware of the way particular task can be completed. In
recent scenario with impact of covid-19, the manager is facing issue pertaining to effective
management of people. Expectation, belief and values of people have changed they wants to be
part of organisation that priorities activity in ensuring their health and well being. So the report
has covered key information related to contemporary issue face by line management, knowledge
and skills need for effective people management and HR process to be followed for performance
management.
Contemporary issues face by line management in context of people management
In current scenario, line manager is facing wide range of contemporary issue such as
managing the diverse workforce, changing value of workforce and demand of employees and
recruiting and retaining high talented individuals within firm. Covid-19 has resulted in changing
the method in which company operate its function as well as duties, as now it has to take care of
maintaining social distancing among the people (Chemuturi and Chemuturi, 2020). Therefore,
the different challenges that the line manager is facing while managing range of talented, skill
and knowledgeable employees in the organisation are as follows:
Changing value of workforce: Most of the younger generation workforces are more educated
and qualified, have talent to complete task thereby they mainly prefer challenging and difficult
jobs. They like to be part of organisation that provide them respect, recognition and value for
their hard work and determination. Moreover they have high expectation and values therefore Hr
manager face difficult in meeting their changing values and preferences to much extend which
result in losing talented employees.
Diverse workforce: It can be stated that the large organisation have wide range of people belong
to different culture, belief and preferences are working together as team for achievements of end
goals. The line managers are facing issue pertaining to managing the diverse workforce as they
have different preference and belief thereby it is unable to plan appropriate strategies that could
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