Showing posts with label Line Manager. Show all posts
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HRM System in an Organization

HRM System in an Organization

Human resource management deals with people dimension in organization. If focuses on management of human abilities.

To understand what human resource management is, first we should review what manager do most experts agree that there are five basic functions manager perform: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. In total, these management process functions represent the management process. Some of the specific activities involved in each function include;
  1. Planning: Establishing goals and standards; developing rules and procedures; developing plans and forecasting predicting or projecting some future occurrence.
  2. Organizing: Giving each subordinate a specific task; established departments; delegating authority to subordinates; establishing channel or authority and communication; coordinating the work of subordinates.
  3. Staffing: Deciding what type of people should be hired; recruiting prospective employees; selecting employees; setting performance standard; counseling to employees; training and development of employees.
  4. Leading: Getting order to get the job done; maintaining morale; motivating to subordinates.
  5. Controlling: Setting standards such as sales quotas, quality standards, or production levels; checking to see how actual performance compares with these standard; taking corrective action as needed.
Human resource management refers to the practices and policies you need to carry out the people or personnel aspects of your management job. These includes:
  • Conducting job analysis (determining the nature of each employee’s job)
  •  Planning labor needs and recruiting job candidates
  • Orientating and training new employee
  • Managing wages and salaries (i.e. how to compensate employees)
  • Providing incentives and benefits
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Communicating (interviewing, counseling, disciplining)
  • Training and development
  • Building employee commitment
  • And a manager should know that about
    • Equal opportunity and affirmative action
    • Employee health and safety
    • Grievances and labor relations
Why are these concepts and techniques important to all managers?
Perhaps, it is easy answer by listing some of the personnel mistakes you doesn’t want to make managing. For example, you don’t want:
  • To hire the wrong person for the job 
  •  To experience high turnover
  • To find your people not doing their best
  • To waste time with unless interviews
  • To have you company taken to court because of your discriminatory actions
  • To commit any unfair labour practices
  • To have your company cited under federal occupational safety for unsafe practices
  • To have some of your employees think their salaries are unfair and inequitable relative to others in the organization.
  • To allow a lack of training to undermine your department’s effectiveness.
Line Manager’s Human Resource Management Responsibilities
According to one expert, “the direct handling of people are and always has been an integral part of every line manager’s responsibility, from president down to the lowest level supervision.” For example, one major company outlines its line supervisor’s responsibilities for effective human resource management under the following general headings.
  • Placing the right person on the right job
  • Starting new employees in the organization (orientation)
  • Training employees for job that are new to them
  • Improving job performance of each person
  • Gaining creative cooperation and developing smooth working condition
  • Interpreting the company’s policies and procedures.
  • Controlling labour cost
  • Developing the abilities to each person
  • Creating and maintaining departmental moral.
  • Protecting employee’s health and physical condition
In small organizations, line managers may carry out all these personnel duties unassisted. But as the organization grows, they need the assistance, specialized knowledge, and advice of a separate human resource staff.

Project Manger and Line Manager Interface

Project manager and line manager interface refers to working relationship between project manager and line manager to get project activities accomplished within constraint of limited time, allocated cost and specified quality performance.

Project manager is fully responsible to achieve the project objectives within the parameters (constraints) of time, cost and quality standard.

Project manager needs all types of human and non-human resources like money, man-power, materials, equipment, information and technology etc. for the successful completion of a project through smooth operation of project activities. But project manager does not control the resources directly accepted the project budget. The resources are collected by line managers, they are often called as resource manager. They assign directly to resources to projects. Project mangers control only those resources which are temporarily loaned by line managers. S/he reminds the line managers that there are also time and cost constraints of the project. This is the starting point for better resource control. Therefore project manager must negotiate with all line mangers for pooling require resources on time.

Project manager always requires to interface with the line mangers for the following major purposes.
  • To get needed resources from functional department on time.
  • To get good support of line managers while negotiating with various parties in connection with project work.
  • To achieve harmonization between project works and line department's work.
  • To get technical and managerial assistance.
  • To solve the project related problems.
The effective project management and project success is highly dependent on working relationship between project manager and line manger. So there must be better coordination, reporting, communication and negotiation between them for good working relationship. Moreover to promote good working relationship, project manager should help a proper understanding of;
  • Quantitative tools and techniques for planning, scheduling and controlling work.
  • Organization structure, own job description.
  • Open communication with line managers including effective coordination.
  • Organizational behavior to tackle the problems of dual reporting system.