Human resource management

Human resource are the people that work for an organization, and Human Resource Management is concerned with how these people are managed. However, the term Human Resource Management (HRM) has come to more than this because people are different from the other resources that work for an organization. People have thoughts and feelings, aspirations and needs. The term HRM has thus come to refer to an approach, which takes into account both:

1. The needs of the organization
2. The needs of its people.

Different individuals have their own needs and aspirations. HRM therefore involves finding out about the needs and aspirations of individual employees, for example through the appraisal process and then creating the opportunities within the organization example through job enlargement and outside the organization example through taking up educational opportunities at local colleges/universities) for employees to improve themselves.

HRM therefore relates to every aspect of the way in which the organization interacts with its people, e.g. by providing training and development opportunities, appraisal to find out about individual needs, training and development needs analysis.