Characteristics of Human Resource Management

1.       People focus: - Human resource management is concerned with managing people in organization. It is concerned with people dimension in management. Human Resource Management is concerned with acquisition, development and motivation and maintenance of people in organization. Human resource management rewards people important resource that can be developed and better utilize. It regards people as a source of competitive advantage.

2.       Management Function: - It is important function of management like planning, organizing, directing and controlling. Human Resource Management is also important function of management.

3.       Continuous commitment: - Human Resource Management is continuous function that must be performed continuous function that must be performed continuously. It is not one time event or function. It must be performed continuously.

4.       Dynamic: - Human Resource Management is a dynamic function. It is influence by change in environment and it adjusts with changing environment. Human Resource Management is flexible enough. Its policies and practices can be change in accordance with the change in environment.

5.       Regards people source of competitive advantage: - Human Resource Management regards people as a source of competitive advantage. Competitive advantage is advantage over competitors and competitive advantage can be achieved through competent and capable manpower. Strategic resources that can be developed and better utilized.

6.       System: - Human Resource management is a system composed of acquisition, development, motivation and maintenance of subsystem. Human resource management utilizes human resource to increase productivity. Human resource management is a system composed of input process, output and feedback component.

7.       Mutuality of interest: - It means common interest between employer and employees. Human Resource management ensures employees commitment. Human Resource Management integrates organizational goal with individual goal. It keeps balance between organizational goal and individual goal. Human Resource Management believes that along with organizational goal, interest individual interest must be solved.