Human Resource Management and Its Importance …

1 International Journal of Education and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 2; September 2014 85 Human Resource Management and Its Importance for Today s Organizations Zehra Alako Burma, PhD, Edu. Assistant Professor Higher Vocational School of Mersin Mersin University Mersin, Turkey. Abstract Today in the world, global competition is the basic element to define firms strategies as a result industrial economy has been experienced to pass toward to knowledge economy. At an age where total quality is of primary Importance , efficiency can only be achieved by the successful utilization of Human resources. Human Resource Management is one of the necessary needs of today s business. Human Resource Management department has a very important role for supply of the Human being to main resources of companies. Human Resource Management department has fundamental role for personnel recruiting, orientation and performance appraisal and so on.

2 Human Resource Management issues to be addressed at the highest level in the organization and Management of strategic decisions are required. This research will inform Human Resource Management , scope and affecting factors on Human Resource Management , Human Resource Management functions and relationship between organizational effectiveness and Human resources Management . Key words: Human Resources Management , Management , Management Functions, Organizational Effectiveness 1. Introduction Today in the world, global competition is the basic element to define firms strategies as a result industrial economy has been experienced to pass toward to knowledge economy. As being a competitive market development day by day it s very difficult to enhance sustainable growth for the firms side. All researchers and practitioners are aware of the advantages and disadvantages of a competitive work environment and try to find ways for adapting to competitive conditions.

3 These efforts have mostly focused on Human Resource Management practices in the last two decades especially with the emergence of strategic Human Resource Management approach. There is a considerable difference between the prospects or prescriptions in favor of the investment in man , and the practices of the companies. Human resources function is well developed and completely recognized, its Importance is increasing, but nothing makes it possible to think that the most traditional constraints and priorities were confused: the control of market, requirements of finance and short-term profitability, surveillance of competitors, the possibility of recruiting a well-educated labor under advantageous conditions: many factors invite to found the idea of strategy of Human resources . The relationship between perceived sufficiency of Human Resource Management practices, person-organization fit, and person-job fit has not been examined before.

4 In the present study, it is hypothesized that perceived sufficiency of HRM practices contributes to actual and perceived person-organization fit and perceived person-job fit. Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge 86 That is, if HRM practices are perceived as sufficient, the employee will have a better sense of fit with the organization and the job. In addition, the other hypothesis asserts that anxiety will influence the positive relationship between perceived sufficiency of HRM practices and person-organization fit and person-job fit. That is, although HRM practices are perceived as sufficient, persons with high anxiety may not have a better sense of fit with the organization and the job. It is a necessity that the strategic approach to Human resources issues to be addressed in modern organizations.

5 Changing internal and external environmental conditions and new problems emerging and complex understanding of Management -organization is the most important source of competitive advantage must not forget to give strategic Importance to man. Into almost every part of the world as a result of globalization, operations, growth, downsizing, mergers, restructuring and corporate responsibility as the lives in the process, introduced concepts such as active and working every day to try a new technique in the Management of Human resources in organizations, Management is becoming a very big Importance and priority. Therefore, Human Resource Management issues to be addressed at the highest level in the organization and Management of strategic decisions are required. People in all matters related to the organization as a whole is brought together and integrate in a way compatible with its surroundings.

6 Managers with strategic decisions and practices focus on results and it should reflect the thoughts and actions. As the technology presents new solutions to the organizations, HRM departments start using cutting-edge technology solutions in the market. Purchasing the best-of-breed tool in the market seems the best solution. However, using tools directly commercial-off-the shelf brought new problems rather than informing the business processes. Human Resource Management literature has generally focused on the constructs of commitment, job satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness. The fit between persons and organizations, and persons and jobs is a neglected area. However, when one considers the intended goals of HRM practices, a sense of fit may be suggested as an expected target. Thus, it seems worth studying whether the positive views of employees about HRM practices makes a difference in terms of their fit with the organization and the jobs that they undertake.

7 Previous studies have revealed that person-organization fit has significant effects on organizational commitment, performance, positive work attitudes, turnover intention, and the like. But the antecedents of person-organization fit have not been studied as frequent as the outcomes of person organization fit. Among the few antecedents that have been studied, organizational entry and socialization can be mentioned. The present study aims to make a contribution to the literature by examining the perceived sufficiency of HRM practices as an antecedent of person-organization fit. 2. Human Resource Management (HRM) Although it was commonly accepted that HRM practices had formally started with industrial revolution, the fact is that the roots of HRM lie deep in the past. Just as the employees who shared the tasks that have to be done in modern organizations, humans in ancient societies also, divided work among themselves.

8 So it can be said that division of labor has been practiced since prehistoric times. Tasks were allocated according to skills such as the ability to find food or plants, track animals or cook (Price, 2007) but the major contribution to the development of the HRM systems is provided by industrial revolution in the 1800 s. The terms of Human Resource Management (HRM) and Human resources (HR) have largely replaced instead of personnel Management (PM) in the processes of managing people in the organizations. While Human Resource Management is defined as a strategic and coherent approach for the organization s most valued assets behind on the workers, there is no upon description of it. Personnel department is mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people. International Journal of Education and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 2; September 2014 87 More recently, organizations consider the HR department as playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner (McNamara, 1998).

9 In the global business, HRM is increasingly considered a contemporary development to reshape employment relationships as a tool that may have effectively replaced other Management traditions like Personnel Management (PM) and Industrial Relations (IR) (Marchington & Wilkinson, 2002). Since the 1980s, Human Resource Management (HRM) strategy has become an important topic for the Management area, HRM strategy has achieved its prominence because it provides competitiveness and promote managerial efficiency in the business area. The rise of Human Resource Management in the 1980s brought managerial scholars to the link between the Management of people and performance. A number of attempts were made to put empirical facts with the theoretical bones of the knowledge based firms and the specific HRM views concerning how the systems on HR practice, which can make an increment on the organizational performance.

10 The approach that focuses on individual HR practices and the link with the performance continued since early 1990s (Hendry & Pettigrew, 1990). HRM is used in a global context which contains ; (a) specific Human Resource practices such as recruitment, selection, and appraisal; (b) formal Human Resource policies, which direct and partially constrain the development of specific practices; and (c) overarching Human Resource philosophies, which specify the values that inform an organization's policies and practices (Gilley 2002). Scope of HRM As HRM has tools of a system which attracts, develops, motivates, and retains the effective functioning related with the people managing, the scope of HRM is very wide. Researches in behavioral sciences show that new trends in managing workers and advances in the field of training have expanded the scope of HR function in recent years.