HR in IT
...ill assume a critical role in providing businesses with the requisite flexibility, continuous learning, efficiency and customer-organization interface in the 21st century. HRM is no longer viewed as synonymous with the limited concepts of Personnel Management or Human Resource Development. ‘integration’ and ‘devolvement’ are two features of such widening of scope of HRM which has come to be seen as more than just a managerial function. 1. Integration of HRM with corporate strategy and thereby “changing the HR function from being reactive prescriptive and administrative to being proactive, descriptive and executive (Boxall, 1994)” has led to the conceptualization of ‘Strategic Human Resource Management’. The rationale behind this change is: a. to utilize all resources of the organization- human, material, technical, financial - in an optimal manner b. to avoid relegation of HRM function as an add-on(dispensable) functional area in an organization c. to limit the subordination of an organisation’s strategic goals to HR constraints and considerations 2. Devolvement of execution of HRM practices to line managers The rationale behind this development is: a. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizational restructuring is taking ...