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UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

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Political environment covers the impact <strong>of</strong> political institutions on <strong>HRM</strong> practices.<br />

Democratic political system increases the expectations <strong>of</strong> workers for their well being. The<br />

total political environment is composed <strong>of</strong> legislature, executive and judiciary.<br />

An enlightened legislature passes plethora <strong>of</strong> legislations bearing on trade and<br />

finance, fixing responsibilities and duties to management and employees. Executive is<br />

always alert in implementing various schemes <strong>of</strong> government and law. The judiciary is<br />

zealously guarding the rights <strong>of</strong> business and society. All these aspects has made <strong>HRM</strong> to<br />

be active not only in choosing right people but also in looking after the employees welfare<br />

and legal directions.<br />

Technological Factors<br />

Technology is a systematic application <strong>of</strong> organized knowledge to practical tasks.<br />

Technological advances affect the HR functions in more than one way. Firstly, technology<br />

makes the job more intellectual and upgraded. Secondly workers are to know and put in<br />

practice to the upgraded technology, lest they are left out. Thirdly jobs and operations<br />

become highly pr<strong>of</strong>essionalized where the workers and employees <strong>of</strong> yester years have to<br />

be weeded out or employed in substitute work. All these involve active <strong>HRM</strong> operations.<br />

Demographic Factors<br />

Demographic variables include sex, age, literacy, mobility etc. Workers are now<br />

called ‘knowledge workers’ and the organization ‘knowledge organization’. The problems,<br />

skills and ability <strong>of</strong> women workers need separate treatment. This adds dimension to <strong>HRM</strong><br />

thrust.<br />

Corporate Excellence<br />

Industrial organizations to a large extent depend on an entrepreneurial behaviour<br />

and motivation to engender corporate excellence. Companies need to shift from physical<br />

technology to information technology, from material growth to sustainable development<br />

from hierarchical pattern to decentralized organization and from conflict to cooperative<br />

working relationship.<br />

Organizations need to elicit entrepreneurial behaviour that calls for a high degree<br />

<strong>of</strong> employees achievement and motivation to attain excellence. Successful<br />

entrepreneurship has the following characteristics and <strong>HRM</strong> has a great role in shaping<br />

them.<br />

i. High sense <strong>of</strong> purpose among the people in the organization.<br />

ii. Absolute organizational focus on customers both internal and external.

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