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Components of HRM

While looking human resources management more specifically, we can find the four major components/functions/process of it. They are respectively –

1.    Acquisition

2.    Development and training

3.    Utilization

4.    Maintenance

Acquisition: It begins with manpower planning. It includes job analysis, recruitment, selection and socialization of employees.

a.     Job analysis: Job analysis is a technique to identify of job nature, characteristics, and required skills to perform that job and number of person that perform that job.

b.    Recruitment: Recruitment is attracting more applicant, post to be filled, number of person need to selection, duties to be performed by selected person, qualification required to be select, advertising and collection of application from potential candidates

c.     Selection: Selection is the process of short listing arranging interview and selection test and selection of competent applicant which was collected in recruitment process.

d.    Socialization: Socialization is familiarity of organization goals, objectives, organization environment, organization rules, regulation, working procedural and other existing employees.

Development and training: Development and training activities will conduct after the selection of potential candidates. This function will be implicated to those existing employees to. It has four activities:

a.    Analysis of development needs: It involves human resource development planning for employees to predetermine future human resource development needs.

b.    Employee training: It involves skill development and change of attitude and behavior ability.

c.     Career development: It matches long-term individual and organization needs.

Utilization: This function ensures willingness of employees for increasing productivity by doing job effectively. It consists of employing people productively through motivation, job design work schedule, and performance appraisal and compensation management.

Maintenance function: This function maintains the commitment employee to the organization. It consists of employee discipline, attitudes, behaviors, skill correction, maintain relation and employee welfare.

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