HR - then and now

     Before HR was just a small plant which was not so required in any organizational premises but now it is a tree whose roots are well spreaded holding the base of organizations. An effective HR injects a vaccine of healthiness in organization which in turns helps it to cope up with routine as well as specific activity according to its desired level of treatment. Any industry or field today we look into showcases one thing which is very interesting to know  that is how well you maintain the people within predicts how well you will be treated by the people outside; this was not the case before and it was not even this much important. Human resource in this dynamic era is very much inbuilt as far as its place was not so particular in earlier times. Before it was just a managerial term use for understanding a theoretical aspect of business, but today it has far further moved out of then confined plot and has made its own existence felt. An employee in today’s time will not only look to monetary aspect which he/she will be getting in form of pay cheques but apart from this there is one factor which will be more crucial then economical rewards is what way he/she is treated by, within an organization and this where HR of present comes into action.

   Radius of circle can be associated with human resource practices before but now HR is like diameter of circle where each and every thing of personnel is known and taken note of. 720 degree approach is basic need of any unit as then only proper plan of actions can be worked on. Moving out of mere recruitment and selecting now modern Inc. looks forward to scientific process of functioning by putting right person with required temperament at right job designation. As for any book, its book cover shows and tells to much extent as to what it has to serve in the same way human resource in today’s time helps to draw out efficiency and working methodology of an firm. Importance of team building and proper allocation of resources with compatible authority and accountability is widely accepted business mantra.

    Monitoring with guidance, over all role of employer has changed now. An employer just cannot keep on informing his employees about their work but he also has to provide his employees them with all the mentoring requisites which can   be helpful to his employer. Now the task is not just limited to employing personnel but it’s all about ‘employing as well as developing personnel’. Each and every employee if gives an extra genuine effort then and only then marginal productivity in reference to output and efficiency cane be experienced.

    In today’s times an HR has to deal with overall business activity i.e. all the areas where there is human factor involve an there can be hardly any area where human input is not required in business so it becomes an serious and important task for human resource handler. Cost of doing any activity also has to be controlled and should be made sure that there is no wastage or repetition of any processes or process this also an HR look out as he can easily know which person to place at which place can yield best returns and how the productivity of an personnel can be raised by giving him an fair opportunity and allowing subordinates to prove their mettle. Human capital now has to be thus dealt accordingly which makes job of HR very prior, proper knowledge of job requirement and job specifications and justifying that with suitable candidate is what an good HR of today’s time is expected before the work load was not this much on shoulders of an HR. “Minimum of risk and maximum of efficiency” that is the main target area for any HR and that can be done only when the HR is well acquainted with his role and expected output from him, its all about an continuous process where an person is responsible for the activities and making each of the process smooth and easy going- this an HR of today.

    GLOBAL VILLAGE- globalization has already started to show its effect on market thus an HR has to be generator of “innovative global workforce” who can withstand the competition and can give a tough fight to white competitors. With all this qualities an HR of today is involved is of helping the employees to adjust in as accepted frame and also helping them to get a proper chance to reframe it accordingly. Proper resources are to be allocated to employees and also with this required authority also should be delegated to them then and only then they can give best of results.

         Practical and emotional stability, an HR of today should have mix of this both elements in order to understand other people and to deal with their problems before this was not the part of HR’s duty. Apart from work targets an individual also has his personal life and now just 360 degree approach towards employee is not accepted, with an individual proper guidance relating to develop personality and over all of growth is also to be taken care by an HR.