Let us briefly explore the field of Human Resource Management through this post!
Organisations are not new to this world and the principles of management have forever been there. The phenomenal buildings during the age-old civilization proves the amazing engineering and management skills that the humans have demonstrated.
However, Fredrick Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory was among the first documented principles to drive organisations and productivity. He stressed on the significance of pay to drive productivity. But then again, Howthorne study was conducted in the 1930s that concluded to the fact that only paychecks could not drive more employee productivity. Humans are not machines! They need more!
Human resource management is a term that came to broad light after the 1960s. It has always been the department that steps back to get an overall picture of the situation both from the management side as well as employees’. Before being called human resource management the field was known as Personnel Management and was a department that was primarily concerned with collecting the documents from all employees.
The HR professionals currently address the following responsibilities in organisations:
- Recruitment: Attract more and more candidates to apply for the job vacancy. Designations such as
- Selection: Choose the best fit out of the applicant pool through the tests and interviews.
- Learning and development: Develop hired/existing employees’ skill levels according to the goals of the organisation.
- Performance appraisal and management: Oversee the appraisal process where employees get hikes and promotions for their last year’s performance.
- Compensation and benefits: Process the salaries of all the employees in the organisation as per the current national, state and company policies.
- Employee engagement: Ensure employee’s grievances are rested and that everyone in the organisation is finding the work engaging.
In fact HR Analytics is a new branch of Human Resource Management that looks at quantifying the HR initiatives and applying analytics.
As technologies continue to intrude into every area of the organisation and individuals, and as we more and more accept the modern work from home model, some of the future designations of HR (mentioned on asanify.com’s blog) are:
- HR Business Director
- Chatbot facilitator
- HR Data Director
- Head of Human Machine Integrations
- Head of Skill design
- Head of Work from home facilitator
Qualifications
If one is interested to step into this field after their twelfth they can take up a degree in Business Management / Human Resource Management / Industrial relations / Personnel management. These degrees are also offered at the Post graduate level if you realize your interest somewhat late. Careers are ever-evolving and one could realize their interest in Human Resouces much after PG too! Short term courses could come to rescue.
As times are changing, and professionals look forward to change careers not just once but several times in their life spans, short term programs offering clarity on the trends in the field, could be a great turning point for anyone wanting to step into the field.
A short term internationally validated certification into Human Resouce Management such as the ones offered by CHRMP is an example. CHRMP also has programs for novice (CHRMP Foundation), experienced professionals (HRBP Advanced) as well as HR Analytics. Visit the link to explore more and register.