Managing Human Resources: Hard and Soft Approaches

MANAGING HUMAN
RESOURCES

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Definition and explanation of the Hard and Soft concepts of HRM .........................................3
Example of an organization using a Hard approach to HRM.....................................................5
lExample of an organization using a Soft Approach to HRM....................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

·INTRODUCTION
·Human resource management (HRM or HR) is the strategic approach to the effective
management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a
competitive advantage. This report highlights the concept of HRM and the two branches of Hrm
namely Soft HRM approach and Hard HRM approach. After that the report goes on to explain
one of the organizations which is using Hard HRM operation in the organization to influence the
work of all the employee in such a way that it contributes toward achieving the organization
(Noe and et.al., 2017). In the end the report highlights example of the Soft HRM operation using
organization, report also specify the different evidence in the organization on the basis of which
it can be identify the HRM approaches which is used by the organization in long turn of the
business.
·MAIN BODY
·Definition and explanation of the Hard and Soft concepts of HRM
HRM is the approach or can be said as a group of the strategies which looks at effective
management of employee in the organization in such a way that it help the company in achieving
the organizational goal effectively. Generally this approach in the organization are designed to
maximize the efforts of the employee in such a way that all the employee in the organization feel
free to showcase their talent and also contribute toward the organization success (Wilton, 2016).
There are two different type of the HRM approaches which are used by the organization to
manage the employee of the organization namely soft HRM and Hard HRM. Soft HRM is the
approach which rooms around the betterment of employee in the organization as this approach
used to treat all the employee as one of the most important asset of the organization. In this
approach all the strategies which are developed in the organization are developed by keeping the
eye on the need of the employee in the organization. Whereas Hard HRM approach is the
approach which does not rooms around any specific party in the organization as this approach
used to treat the employee of the organization as just another resource of the organization. In
simple words, it can be said that this approach used to look at the employee as a resource which
will help them in achieving the higher amount of profit and will also help in getting the
competitive advantage in the market (Malik, 2018).