HR Management Excellence CHR 1501 Evolut
HR Management Excellence CHR 1501 Evolut
HR Management Excellence CHR 1501 Evolut
CHR 1501
▪ Industrial Revolution
▪ Personnel Department
▪ The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where
major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and
technology.
▪ It began in the UK then subsequently spread throughout Europe, North America,
and eventually the world.
▪ Conversion of the economy from agriculture-based to industry-based.
▪ The Industrial Revolution century replaced the time-consuming hand labor with
mechanical means of production.
▪ With the rapid growth of manufacturing industry, emergence of supervisors and
managers widened the gap between the workers and owners.
▪ Strict working conditions with long hours of labor dominated by a pace set by
machines, child labor, dirty living conditions, and long working hours.
▪ Late 1800s, people problems were a very real concern in the workplace.
▪ For the average blue-collar worker, most jobs were low-paying, monotonous
and unsafe. Some industries experienced difficulty recruiting and retaining
employees because of the poor working conditions workers were exposed to.
▪ Concerns grew about wages, safety, child labor and 12-hour workdays.
▪ Workers began to band together in unions to protect their interests and
improve living standards.
▪ Forward-thinking employers recognized that productivity was connected to
worker satisfaction and involvement
▪ B.F. Goodrich Company was the pioneers in designing a corporate employee
department to address the concerns of the employees in 1900.
It's believed that the first Personnel Management department began at the National Cash
Register Co. (NCR) in 1902.
▪ It’s a separate department to handle employee grievances, record keeping, wage
management, training for supervisors on new laws and practices and other employee-
related functions.
▪ Business leaders still viewed the work itself as infinitely more important than the
people doing it, and production rates remained the top concern.
▪ Elton Mayo and his associates conducted several studies on worker productivity.
The studies pointed out the importance of social interaction and work group on
output and satisfaction.
Mayo wanted to find out what effect fatigue and monotony had on job
productivity and how to control them through such variables as rest
breaks, work hours, temperatures and humidity.
▪ But early personnel departments were only concerned with the blue-collar
workers.
▪ Between the 1960s and 1970s, the HRM movement gained further momentum
due to the passing of several acts like the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 Income
▪ HRM function was integrated into the organizational goals and strategies. The
crucial role of HRM became gradually evident in attaining the strategic and
competitive advantage of organizations for survivals
HRM
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the philosophy, policies, procedures, and
practices related to the management of people within an organization. – Wendell French.
HRM is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees ,
and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.- Gary
Dessler
A strategic approach to managing employment relations which emphasizes leveraging
people’s capabilities is critical to achieving sustainable competitive advantage, this being
achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programs and
practices. (Bratton & Gold)
HRM Model
The model suggests that these nine areas
have impacts on three human resources
outputs:
Job Analysis
• Observation Method
• Interview Method
• Questionnaire Method
•Diary/Logbook Method
• Most commonly used method
– very adaptable
• Usually conducted with
– job incumbents
– technical experts
– supervisors
• Questions like:
– what are your most typical duties?
– How long do they take?
– How do you do them?
• Con: people may misrepresent/exaggerate job
• method is most useful for comparing
jobs
• very commonly used (esp. with
interviews)
• Unobtrusive method
– camera; video; audio
• Excellent for understanding and appreciating conditions
under which job is performed
• Allows analyst to experience aspects of job that worker
may not be aware of
• Not as good for understanding why behaviors do/do not
occur
• Worker makes systematic entries in book outlining
activities
• May be useful for jobs that are difficult to observe
• But, not commonly used
• Reduce Role Conflict and Ambiguity
– reduce discrepancy between what organization thinks job is and
what job is in reality
• Design and Evaluation of Training
– focus training on most difficult and/or most frequent elements of
job
• Performance Appraisal
– criteria for appraisal should be matched with most important
elements of job
Job Evaluation