(PDF) Managing people at work

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE
MANAGING PEOPLE
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The essay discusses the process of human resource management and it application on
the current organisations. The process of HRM aims to bring people as well as other
organisations together in meeting the objectives and goals. It aims to try and win whole
hearted cooperation of the people associated with the organisation and secure their best. The
HR management is the art of procuring development and maintain the workforce competent
(Tzabbar, Tzafrir and Baruch 2017). This processes help the management to achieve the
organisational goal in an effective as well as efficient manner. It balances the staff
responsibility with the production of the organisation and maintain a true competitiveness. It
is designed for maximising the performance of the employees in accordance to the strategic
objectives of the employers. This essay however, discusses the nature and characteristics of
human resource management, strategies and techniques in people management, implication
of HRM and current trends followed by the successful human resource mangers. The essay
also discusses the issues regarding managing people in an organisation with support of case
studies and survey data.
The HRM has various features among which its pervasiveness plays a major role. It
permeates all the levels of management in the organisation. HRM particularly focusses on the
actions rather than keeping written records and procedures. The issues of the employees at
their work are solved through rational and logical policies (Xing et al. 2016). HR
management revolves round the people at work. It takes care of both people as well as
groups. It helps to improve the skills of the people so that they can give their best for the
organisations. HRM uses systematic processes of recruitment, training and potential
development together with fair wage policy. HRM selects people on assigned tasks to
produce a good result. The subsequent gains are used for rewarding people which ultimately
motivate them for further improvement in the organisational productivity (Donate, Peña and
Sanchez 2016). It helps the organisations to meet goals by increasing their competence

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through the motivated employees. For instance, in the successful company like Google, the
employees are recruited from the best colleges so that they can carry the brand name and
create positive nature as well as values in the company.
HRM is an integrating mechanism that build as well as maintain a cordial connection
among the employees and other levels of the organisation. The Nature of HRM is to stay
concerned with the decisions taken in the organisations and their impacts on the potential
employees (Veth et al. 2017). The workforce of a company is consisted of various levels of
employees which include top managers, supervisors and other employees. Each of these
employees’ fictions may take diverse shapes at each level. Hence the basic objectives of the
HRM particularly remains the same that is to achieve organisational goals effectively. HRM
enables the employees to get maximum satisfaction out of their work.
Human resource department of an organisation works hand in hand with the operating
manners. The HR mangers of the organisation efficient advice the managers to apply
motivational methods to the employees as they know the strengthens as well as weaknesses
of each of the employees. Through these advices from the HR departments, the operational
mangers can regulate their employee functions (Caligiuri 2014). HRM is an interdisciplinary
activity where the managers utilise their knowledge as well as inputs drawn from sociology,
psychology and economics. HR managers are capable of unravelling the mystery of the
human brains based on which they can understand as well as appreciate contributions of the
soft skills of the employees. One of the major features of the HRM process is its constant
alertness and responsiveness to the employees along with the organisations (Ahlvik and
Björkman 2015). It utilises awareness of human relations in the everyday operations. In the
top IT firm IBM which has a lot of branches all over the world, maintains a flexible
environment in the workplace so that the HRs can reach the employees easily and catch their
requirements. Each department have HR in order to reduce time for meetings.