Summary of Chapter 1: Introduction to HRM

The book further provides a detailed explanation of the Line Managers’ Human Resource Duties like placing the right person on the right job, starting new employees in the organization (orientation), training employees for jobs that are new to them, improving the job performance of each person etc. In order to carry out this specialized assistance, the HR managers carries out three distinct functions, A line function, A coordinative function and Staff function. New approaches to Organizing HR have also been discussed with four specific points, the transactional HR, corporate HR, embedded HR and the centers of expertise, these are four groups within which the employees try to organize themselves. To further clear the concept of new approaches three different examples have also been shared. Then the chapter proceeds to how some trends are shaping up the HR management. Trends like, globalization, competition, technological innovations etc. are drastically changing the whole human resource management system. Due to globalization, trade groups like NAFTA, SAARC are formed which requires partnerships, job offshoring and more employment, this leads to training the employees to learn the culture and tradition of foreign countries to work in a congenial environment. Technological trends has enabled the introduction of high-tech jobs, new service jobs requiring technological expertise encouraging the knowledge workers and thus increasing the demand for human capital. The topic moves on to the important trends in human resource management which further elaborated the way how new human resource managers work, their focus which is more on the big picture issues, new ways to provide transactional services, new proficiencies which includes HR proficiencies, Business proficiencies, Leadership proficiencies, Learning proficiencies. Being a