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Key HRM Strategies and Roles Explained

The document discusses the main tasks and missing focus areas of human resource management (HRM). It also examines the differences between line and staff authority, the role of line managers in HR functions, and how the changing environment is impacting HRM. Specifically, the key areas of HRM are ensuring the right people are in the right jobs, motivating employees, measuring productivity, and developing potential. However, HRM is also missing a focus on improving productivity, quality, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, managing knowledge, and bringing new products to market.

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Key HRM Strategies and Roles Explained

The document discusses the main tasks and missing focus areas of human resource management (HRM). It also examines the differences between line and staff authority, the role of line managers in HR functions, and how the changing environment is impacting HRM. Specifically, the key areas of HRM are ensuring the right people are in the right jobs, motivating employees, measuring productivity, and developing potential. However, HRM is also missing a focus on improving productivity, quality, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, managing knowledge, and bringing new products to market.

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Special Topics in HRM

Overview of HRM
Jerry Estenson

Main Tasks of HRM

Right results Through people


Right people for the right jobs
Motivating these folks
Measuring their productivity
Develop their full potential

Missing Focus for HR

Improving productivity
Increasing quality
Facilitating mergers and acquisitions
Managing knowledge
Improving organizations ability to bring
new product/services to market

Line versus Staff Authority


Line Managers
Carry the burden of the bottom line

HRM
Lightens the load from a people perspective
Implied or borrowed authority
Functional control (speaks for management)
Employee advocate (conscious of the
organization)

Role of Line Managers in HR


functions
See page 6 for the list of ten activities that
are clearly HR in nature.

Changing Environment
More HR executives come from outside
the field (25%)
Globalization
Technology (IT will play an important role.
Moving traditional HR functions to the
Intranet)
HR being tied to performance metrics

Core Competencies

Knowledge of Employment Law


Soft Leadership Skills
High ethical standards
Technology skills (Human Resources
Information Systems

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