The Role of Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the basis of all management activity:
getting the people of the business to make things happen in a productive way, so that the business prospers and the people thrive.
Constant balancing act between meeting the human aspirations of the people and meeting the strategic and financial needs of the business.
(Torrington, Hall and Taylor, 2008:4)

“Human resource management (HRM) is a strategic approach to managing employment relations which emphasizes that leveraging people’s capabilities is critical to achieving competitive advantage, this being achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programmes and practices.” (Bratton, J. 2007:3)
“The design, implementation and maintenance of strategies to manage people for optimum business performance, including the development of policies and processes to support these strategies.” (CIPD, 2008).…