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My name is Professor
Christine Cross.
I work at the Kemi
Business School
at the University of
Limerick in Ireland.
Today the topic is what is
human resource management?
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Human Resource Management
is the term most
widely used to describe
the activities
a business engages in to manage
its relationship
with its employees.
If you're an employer, a
manager or an employee,
or you will be in the future,
the areas we cover in
human resource management
are going to be relevant
to your working life.
In every organisation,
the employer needs
their business to be
successful and profitable.
The manager needs the right
people in the right place
doing the right things to
meet the business goals.
The employee needs a
job they feel able for
in a fair and safe environment,
which pays them appropriately.
Taking all of this on board,
human resource management
is firstly about
understanding and
meeting the needs
of these three stakeholders.
It is also about
appreciating that there are
potential links between
each of these needs
but that some stakeholders
are quite powerful,
while others may have very
little, if any, power at all.
In order to manage
these relationships,
organisations choose from
a range of HR policies
and practices which together
make up their strategy
for the management
of their employees
and includes areas such as:
how to recruit and
select employees,
how to ensure that everyone
in the organisation
is treated equally
and how to pay and
reward employees.
