Assessment Brief Assessment ObjectiveAfter getting through the materials of this unit, you should be able to do the following:1. Explain the essence and nature of human resource management and contrast this with traditional personnel management;2. Analyse human resources management activities and functions.Essay QuestionDefine Human resource management and explain its scope by considering effective literature review analysis and collaborate your findings to offer an individually based conclusionThe following resources should be used and not any outside sources:Bowin, Robert Bruce, and Donald Harvey. Human resource management. Upper Saddle River:Prentice-Hall, 2001.Clarke, Bruce. View from HR: A good manager sees what people need, not just whatthey seem to want. New Observer. Available online:http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/19/3289596/view-from-hr-a-good-manager-sees.html (Accessed November 2013).Harel, Gedaliahui H., and Shay S. Tzafrir. “The effect of human resource management practiceson the perceptions of organizational and market performance of the firm.” HumanResource Management 38.3 (1999): 185-199.Schuler, Randall S., and Ian C. MacMillan. “Gaining competitive advantage through humanresource management practices.” Human Resource Management 23.3 (1984): 241-255.OverviewOrganisations today face many challenges in the management of their human resources. Every month brings media reports on organisational reengineering, restructuring, delayering, outsourcing, workforce diversity and downsizing. Most of these change-management strategies have implications for human resource management. The purpose of this course is to provide understanding of developments in the field of human resource management, that managers of organisation will increasingly face. Most students who take human resource management (HRM) courses will not necessarily become human resource generalists or specialists. But it is an accepted fact today that everyone who works in any organisation will come in contact with HRIsA, (both effective and ineffective). Those who become operating managers must be able to manage human resource activities, because as elemental management functions, they can have major consequences for every organisation. The overall aim, therefore, of this course on HRM is to introduce the student to the fundamentals of managing people in organisations. Human resource is considered today as the most valuable but problematic resource available to management. What makes it such a vital resource? How is it being managed? How can it be best managed? Who should manage it? Traditionally, its management was viewed as the exclusive role of the personnel manager. Have changes occurred in the management of this vital resource? It will be necessary therefore that the student is introduced, not only to the various core functions involved in the management of people, but whose responsibility it is to do so, both efficiently and effectively.Course aimsThe overall aim of the course can be summarised as introducing you, the student, to the basic concepts, scope and processes of HRM. This will be achieved in the following ways: 1. Introducing you to the essential areas of HRM; 2. Treating you to concepts and principles relating to the management of people in organisation; 3. Presenting HRM in the context of how it contributes to organisational effectiveness and efficiency; 4. Making you gain a clear understanding of how each separate HRM function is consistent and supportive of the corporate strategy through which an organisation achieves its goals and objectives. Course objectives To achieve the broad aims set out above, the course objectives are set out below. Each of the separate units of the course also has its objectives at the beginning of the unit, to guide your focus. Once you have successfully completed the course, it is expected that you should be able to do the following: 1. Understand and critically discuss the many ways in which HRM contributes to the success and survival of an organisation. 2. Gain a good insight into the theoretical discussions about the dynamics of human resource management. 3. Discuss fully the various strategies that management need to put in place to ensure effectiveness in the acquisition, utilisation, training and development, maintain and reward employees in your organisation. 4. Identify and contribute to better decisions about the design of strategies for organising cooperation and managing conflicts in workplace labour management relations.After getting through the materials of this unit, you should be able to do the following:1. Explain the essence and nature of human resource management and contrast this with traditional personnel management;2. Analyse human resources management activities and functions.Essay QuestionDefine Human resource management and explain its scope by considering effective literature review analysis and collaborate your findings to offer an individually based conclusionThe following resources should be used and not any outside sources:Bowin, Robert Bruce, and Donald Harvey. Human resource management. Upper Saddle River:Prentice-Hall, 2001.Clarke, Bruce. View from HR: A good manager sees what people need, not just whatthey seem to want. New Observer. Available online:http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/19/3289596/view-from-hr-a-good-manager-sees.html (Accessed November 2013).Harel, Gedaliahui H., and Shay S. Tzafrir. “The effect of human resource management practiceson the perceptions of organizational and market performance of the firm.” HumanResource Management 38.3 (1999): 185-199.Schuler, Randall S., and Ian C. MacMillan. “Gaining competitive advantage through humanresource management practices.” Human Resource Management 23.3 (1984): 241-255.Organisations today face many challenges in the management of their human resources. Every month brings media reports on organisational reengineering, restructuring, delayering, outsourcing, workforce diversity and downsizing. Most of these change-management strategies have implications for human resource management. The purpose of this course is to provide understanding of developments in the field of human resource management, that managers of organisation will increasingly face. Most students who take human resource management (HRM) courses will not necessarily become human resource generalists or specialists. But it is an accepted fact today that everyone who works in any organisation will come in contact with HRIsA, (both effective and ineffective). Those who become operating managers must be able to manage human resource activities, because as elemental management functions, they can have major consequences for every organisation. The overall aim, therefore, of this course on HRM is to introduce the student to the fundamentals of managing people in organisations. Human resource is considered today as the most valuable but problematic resource available to management. What makes it such a vital resource? How is it being managed? How can it be best managed? Who should manage it? Traditionally, its management was viewed as the exclusive role of the personnel manager. Have changes occurred in the management of this vital resource? It will be necessary therefore that the student is introduced, not only to the various core functions involved in the management of people, but whose responsibility it is to do so, both efficiently and effectively.Course aimsThe overall aim of the course can be summarised as introducing you, the student, to the basic concepts, scope and processes of HRM. This will be achieved in the following ways: 1. Introducing you to the essential areas of HRM; 2. Treating you to concepts and principles relating to the management of people in organisation; 3. Presenting HRM in the context of how it contributes to organisational effectiveness and efficiency; 4. Making you gain a clear understanding of how each separate HRM function is consistent and supportive of the corporate strategy through which an organisation achieves its goals and objectives. Course objectives To achieve the broad aims set out above, the course objectives are set out below. Each of the separate units of the course also has its objectives at the beginning of the unit, to guide your focus. Once you have successfully completed the course, it is expected that you should be able to do the following: 1. Understand and critically discuss the many ways in which HRM contributes to the success and survival of an organisation. 2. Gain a good insight into the theoretical discussions about the dynamics of human resource management. 3. Discuss fully the various strategies that management need to put in place to ensure effectiveness in the acquisition, utilisation, training and development, maintain and reward employees in your organisation. 4. Identify and contribute to better decisions about the design of strategies for organising cooperation and managing conflicts in workplace labour management relations.