HUMAN RESOURCES

MANAGEMENT
PREPARATORY MATERIAL SET 1



PGP 18 | 2014-2016

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This presentation is prepared by the HR interest group
HRiday @IIM Kozhikode. The material will help you to
gain insights in the field of HR from a managerial
perspective. We believe that this presentation will help
you by giving an introduction to what you will learn in
your curriculum at IIM Kozhikode.
All PGP-18ers are expected to go through the material.
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About HRiday
HRiday is the HR Interest group at IIM Kozhikode, came into
existence owing to the keen interest of students in the field of
Human Resources. The objective of this group is knowledge
sharing, industry interaction and promoting the field of HR. As
the name suggests, HRiday wants to convey the message that
the Human Resource function is like the heart of every
organization. HRiday conducts weekly sessions on a gamut of
HR related topics from balanced score card to predictors of
success in the software industry to models of competency
mapping. Faculty, members of the industry and students alike
participate in these sessions. HRiday takes care of the Annual
HR Summit and all related co-curricular activities in campus
under the directives of the Area Head.

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LEARNING METHODOLOGY @ IIM K

HR related courses form a major part of your curriculum in your first
year of PGDM and carries heavy weight age in terms of Credit points.
Curriculum:
Your curriculum will require you to go through case studies, often
spanning over 20 pages.

Application of theoretical frameworks to work and related
scenarios is imperative in the study of human resources and
organizational behavior.


Learning with
a managerial
perspective
Classroom Lectures
& activities
HRiday interest
group activities
with PGP 17 & PGP
18
Guest Lectures
Case analysis and
discussion
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To get essence of HRM, please go through the following basic concepts
of HRM:
Human resource happens to be one of the most important
functions of the organizations. This section will introduce some of
the major functions which they perform. They are mentioned as
under-

Manpower Planning: Human resource department forecasts the
number people needed in the various department across the business.
This planning depends on several factors like-
Number of people leaving the organization
Technology changes
The growth in the business
The current productivity level of the workers etc.
Human
resource
management
Manpower
planning
Job analysis
and Job
description
Compensation
Recruitment
and Staffing
Performance
Appraisal
Training and
Development
Trade Unions
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Job Analysis and Job description: Job analysis involve evaluating the
requirements for a job like- the skill set, duties, responsibilities and the
environment in which the job need to be performed. Putting down the
job analysis in words is known as job description. Before recruiting any
person in the organization, the Job analysis is done and the description
is prepared.
Compensation: They decide the compensation of a particular job role,
which also requires benchmarking the wages the salary paid in other
organization.
Recruitment and staffing: Recruitment is selecting the right candidates
for the organization. Staffing means assigning relevant jobs to the
recruited people.
Performance Appraisal: Once the employee starts working for an
organization, on a regular basis HR has to measure their performance
and thereby decide action plan for each employee. Performance
appraisal is carried out by taking the comments about the work of the
employee from his/her manager. The participation of the HR in the one
on one performance appraisal interactions between the employee and
the manager is to ensure fair and transparent proceedings.
Training and Development: All the trainings and development plans in
an organization are carried out by the HR department. For e.g. - A job
requires some additional skill set. Then the HR helps the employee by
organizing training for them. This not only helps in the development of
the employee as a whole but also improves their efficiency.
Managing Trade Unions: In the companies which have a manufacturing
unit, then one of the major functions of the HR is to manage the Trade
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Unions. This is considered to be one of the most difficult tasks. Trade
unions are essentially the voice of the labor. Trade union makes it a
point that the labor gets all the due benefits and good working
conditions in the factory. HR department makes sure that labor gets
heard and their demands are taken care of.
These are just some of the major functions which HR performs. There
are a lot more things. For e.g. HR actually implements the policies of
the organization. One such example can be the leave policy. HR keeps
the record of all the employees who are associated with the
organization. Now technology has been a big enabler to do all these
things with great ease. The ERP (Enterprise Resource planning) system
is extensively used by HR department to take care of some the
processes concerning employees. In some organization you can even
find an IT- HR department which takes care all these.
Whenever a new employee becomes a part of the organization then
they are taken through an Orientation program by the HR. This
program makes sure to make the person aware of the organization
rules and policies and at the same time ensure that they gel with the
team well. HR manages the employee life cycle in the organization.
They plan career development path of the employee. HR ensures that
the employees are motivated, and also organize ice breaking events to
ensure that the employees remain enthusiastic and energetic. Various
outings and team lunches are also organized on a regular basis for the
team building purpose.
Apart from the above mentioned functions HR is now emerging as the
Strategic Business Partner. Human resource is the biggest asset
which an organization has. If they are used in the right way then they
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can become a Competitive Advantage which is very difficult to
replicate. Southwest Airlines is the epitome of it.

Personality:
Personality is defined as the relatively enduring pattern of thoughts,
emotions, and behaviors that characterize a person, along with the
psychological processes behind those characteristics. Given below are
the two main frameworks that help in evaluating the personality of a
person - the Big Five Model and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
These frameworks are useful in finding out the personality of a person
and categorize similar/ different personalities, find out traits required
for a certain job and the right person for a job.
A) The Big Five Model/ OCEAN model
As per this framework a personality is evaluated on the basis of
five traits
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Agreeableness would be effective in jobs requiring cooperation
and helpfulness while extroversion would be effective in a sales
role.

B) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
It is based on Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jungs personality theory and
helps in identifying an individuals preferences for perceiving the
environment and obtaining/processing information.
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Thus we have sixteen combinations/types and each type tends to be
drawn toward specific industries, jobs, and vocations. For example,
accountants would generally be of the type ISTJ.

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Individual Behavior: MARS Model:

Employee Motivation: Internal forces that affect a persons
voluntary choice of behavior
direction
intensity
persistence
Employee Ability:
Natural aptitudes and learned capabilities required to
successfully complete a task
Competencies-personal characteristics that lead to superior
performance
Person job matching
selecting
developing
redesigning
Role Perceptions
Beliefs about what behavior is required to achieve the
desired results:
understanding what tasks to perform
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understanding relative importance of tasks
understanding preferred
behaviors to accomplish tasks
Situational Factors
Environmental conditions beyond the individuals short-term
control that constrain or facilitate behavior
time
people
budget
work facilities


For Further learning:
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R0807G-PDF-ENG
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R1309D-PDF-ENG
http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=55411
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WtIYpsclLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAA_gK8jzX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVyJXnZEp2A














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Hope you went through the material properly.
Thank you!
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Team HRiday
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