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3.1
HRM system and the HRM functions
employment cycle stages
recruitment, selection and induction
training and development
performance appraisal and reward
the management of discipline and engagement
career planning
potential promotion/termination.
The HRM system is a broad concept that covers all HRM components and functions.
We can understand HRM components as ‘how HRM systems work’ (inputs, or what needs to be provided in order for the HRM system to operate)
HRM functions are ‘what HRM systems do’ (outputs, or HRM goals).
HRM components
HR principles
HR policies
HR practices
HR programmes
HR climate
HRM functions
HR Planning
Challenges
: environmental turbulence and changes, translating strategy into operation, forecasting demand.
Related OB topics
: organisation’s environment, organisational structure and forms, work design.
Activities
: Environmental Analysis, forecasting future HR needs, assessing current situation and working on decisions and plans.
Recruitment, Selection and Induction
Challenges
: addressing an increasingly diverse population, sensitivity to equality and diversity, e.g. the employment of women, ethnic minorities, people with mixed abilities, the elderly.
Related OB topics
: personality assessment, the search for ‘fit’, communication, learning, new organisational forms.
Activities
: finding the right people and recruiting them into the right jobs.
Learning and Development
Challenges
: tension between individual and organisational responsibility, development as a recruitment and retention tool, coping with new technologies.
Related OB topics
: learning, group and team’s work design, motivation, organisational change.
Activities
: assessing needs for staff learning and development, selecting, designing and implementing methods and evaluating effects.
Employee performance management and reward
Challenges
: relation to organisational performance, the need to attract and retain staff, use of surveillance.
Related OB topics
: motivation, equity theory, group influence on individual behaviour, teamwork.
Activities
: structuring and evaluating performance appraisal and management systems, pay and benefits policy, discipline and conduct management.
Employee relations
Challenges
: encouraging loyalty to avoid losing talent, organisational culture management.
Related OB topics
: communication, motivation, organisational culture and change, leadership style.
Activities
: design of communication and participation mechanisms, individual and team empowerment, nurturing employee voice as a means to increase commitment.