Assignment no.9!

The numbered ones are the definitions, and what follows after each definition are the criticisms.

1.Human Resource Management is the the overall process of managing people in organizations. HRM encompasses the vast array of decisions frontline managers make about the people they supervise: Who should I hire? How can I reward good performance (and motivate even better performance)? Who should I promote into positions of higher responsibility (and who needs more training to do the jobs they are already occupying)? – Carol T. Kulik

Criticism: What Ms. Carol T. Kulik said is true, Human Resource Management is all about managing people in organizations. If you were the HR manager, important questions that you shall ask yourself are "Who should I hire?" or "How can I reward good performance?", or maybe even "Who should I promote into positions of higher responsibility?". Those are important things to be decided in Human Resource Management.

2. Miller (1987) suggests that HRM relates to:"... those decisions and actions which concern the management of employees at all levels in the business and which are related to the implementation of strategies directed towards creating and sustaining competitive advantage."

Criticism: I agree to what Miller said. Human Resource Management isn't merely just managing employees, you manage them based on a strategy that is to the company's or organization's benefit and advantage.

3. Torrington and Hall (1987) define personnel management as being:“a series of activities which: first enable working people and their employing organisations to agree about the objectives and nature of their working relationship and, secondly, ensures that the agreement is fulfilled".

Criticism: Torrington and Hall's definition of Personnel Management is true, although it focuses more on a particular topic. This topic, I think, is all about unions and collective bargaining. Part of managing personnel is to also hear out what the employees have to say and discuss on something and agreeing on it. Both of the parties(management and employees) should agree on it so as to prevent protests and the like.

4.Human Resource Management (HRM) - The goal of human resource management is to help an organization to meet strategic goals, be attracting and maintaining employees, and also to manage them effectively. - www.brij.net

Criticism: Even though it is small and brief, I think this definition of Human Resource Management is correct (I think "be" there is "by"). To meet the organization's goals, effective Human Resource Management is required, and this requires also attracting and maintaining employees and managin them effectively.

5. Human Resource Management - a strategic approach to managing employment relations which emphasizes that leveraging people's capabilities is critical to achieving sustained competitive advantage, this being achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programmes and practices". - (Bratton and Gold)

Criticism: All of what they said are true(although it gives me a nosebleed) for Human Resource Management.