Human resource development:

People should continue giving their best

Prasad Sachinthamapatunage

Importance of human resource for the part of national development. In highly competitive business even a strong market position cannot be held or improved with mediocre people. IT takes the best people,continually giving their best to attain challenging but achievable goals. It takes people with superior education, training and experience who are interested in maintaining the initiative in the face of carefully calculated business risks to stay on top of competitive heap.

IT takes people with highly capable with workmanship who carefully apply their skills and disciplines to produce a marketable product of the competitive quality on time within carefully controlled costs. It takes first line supervisors who are very much aware of influence their people and who by their jobs more effectively.

It takes a healthy profitable company to engage in public service activities. This takes managers with superior skills who recognize and takes advantage of opportunities while keeping the wheels turning, the cost down, and the profits up.

IT takes broad gauged managers who see beyond the four walls of their offices to initiate social change and do so profitability. Interested of merely reacting to change. It takes managers with special skills in communication, organization, selection, utilization, motivation and manpower development to make business plans become realities.

In short, the bigger the job done, the higher the caliber of person who must be hired to do the job and more complex and challenging the task of managing him and providing the climate and the environment within which he will put forth his best efforts. Whatever the objective, the human resource it’s the key factor in its attainment.

Identification and solution of management problems is another responsibility of the human resources executive. One of the prerequisites of the human resource executive is to recognize those causes and provide operating management with the tools to reduce the effects or eliminate the condition that detract from an organization ability to achieve its goals.

To set guide posts to line management in managing the human asset is a vital part of the human resource executive office. Policies are made for several reasons to assure consistency of action by all managers faced with common decisions, to avoid making the same decisions over and over again to provide for fair and equitable treatment of all employees in similar situations and circumstances to communicate top major philosophies, values and attitudes and translate these into practice, to insure maintains of a competitive posture in accord with company goals, to communicate top management decisions to all concerned.

Employ relations policies relate to compensation, vacation, holidays, fringed benefits, moving expenses and transfer allowances, performance appraisal, discrimination, termination, severance pay, promotions, manpower development, educational assistance, disciplinary action and discharge, and communication.

Good sound up to date employee relations, policies, well administered help to prevent conflict and internal dissension. They clarify and communicate, that provide guidelines for managerial decisions on human resource questions. They help to recruit high caliber executives. As an example if a company compensation policy provide for payment above the going rate for executive talent, the recruiting job is made immeasurably easier. Money is important particularly at the middle management level. Add to the money/ salary increasing, fringe benefit packages including a holiday and vacation schedule on the liberal side for the industrial level and chance of winning over a prospect are further enhanced. Couple this with a formal policy of education assistance, including a plan for the individual career development, and the chances are enhance even further.

When we consider of an organization or a company there are people in a several stages like those in a ladder. It means labour to top management.

Therefore people have to work together to attain common goals. Achieving the goals of the organization at that planning, organizing, staffing, leading, controlling plays a major role. Actually it’s a process of involving those functions using all organizing resources to reach the stated organizational goals. Deploy organizational resources that is 5Ms in order to achieve the organizational goals. 5Mss ( mechinary, money, methods, men and materials).

To optimize or maximize organizational goals we have to fulfill another important task that is Human Resource Management. It is also a process of planning, recruiting selecting, training, development and rewarding and appraising the people of HR aspect from a managerial position by working ad through other people. These functions are particularly important. In order to maximize the production level and enhance the organizational effectiveness.

There are key areas that are required for the organizational development in a good way. Those are Human resource planning, management compensation system, performance management system, Human resource development, employ relation, employ services. Industrial relations ant etc.

Human resource is a very vital because it helps to get the right number of qualified people for the right jobs. That means it involves matching supply of people internally (existing employees) or externally (to be hired).

In organizational point of view it helps to identify future need of employees. And also HR management involves in managing employee cost to maximize the profitability of the organization.

(The writer is studying international transportation and logistics management at the CINEC Maritime Campus at Malabe. The writer could be reached at [email protected])