Human Resource

Work environment is all about creating "A Great Place to Work", it is about making an organization where people belong, one where they would love to come, one where people would like to work, one where harmonious relationship are in existence. An environment is created by the stakeholders but most importantly it flows from the top, where leaders and top management have the responsibility to have values that foster, motivation, respect, commitment, risk taking, knowledge sharing and most importantly they take pride in what they do.

The Relationship bettwen the Business and Employee is changing. Change is the measure of success for individuals and the organisations, by Change it is referred to anything from change of working conditions, way to communicate, technological changes, anything that is different from the previous way of doing things, and is done for the betterment of both the people and the organisation is change.

HR Plays a key role in the process of managing and efficient working of the business organization, HR role in the business is more than what a normal departments do or what an HR department does. HR role is to take a lead role in initiating activities, provide guidance, support and services in all matters that are linked to employees. It is about propviding a service where by organization get thingsa done through people.

According to Marques (2006) Andragogy refers to one where Learners take responsibility for their own learning and resent authority, whereas cognitive learning is an approach where learning is an active mental’ process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge but one of the criticisms of cognitive learning is that learning itself is not directly observable.

Focus in Management is on efficient and effective use of resources to satisfy organizational objective, The Concept of HRM was first defined by Bakke in 1966, who was of the opinion that as with all other resaources in the business that needs to be properly managed and utilized, the optimum utilization of Humans as resource is inevitable for the success of any business organisation, thus the term Human Resource Management was coined.

The Article provides a prospective topic for research student that could be used for their final year research project. The topic under discussion is "Impact of Work Stressors on Work Behaviors". Heterogeneous occupations could be studied in order to identify occupation-specific stressors. Bankers, Teachers, Marketers and Engineers can be potential subjects for the study. The study should aim at  examining how stressors affect work behaviors.

The concept human capital management’ (HCM) is based on the concept of human capital as explained in the fi rst part of this chapter. The next three sections describe the processes of human capital management - measurement, internal and external reporting.

The distinctive feature of HRM is its assumption that improved performance is achieved through the people in the organization.’ (Guest, 1997) conditional therefore for performance improvement is that Organisation makes policies and processes that would facilitate HR at work, it could be assumed that Human Resource would have a substantial impact on the business performance.