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It can easily be said that in the recent past, no other area of an organization has changed so much as human resource management. Till recently, companies and organizations had a department or division for personnel or labor relations or industrial relations. Its functions normally centered around ensuring smooth production and operations, discouraging strikes and labor activism, appraisal and compensation issues and complying with the government's mandates and rules.

There is a shift from controlling to managing these resources due to changes and improvements in industry and economy in addition to the realisation that employees are its most resourceful asset. It's the people not the capital, technology that is the most vital asset in any organisation. Since people are emotional, ever changing and susceptible to ups and downs and they need careful handling.

Various activities find a place in human resource management, such as recruiting the right kind of employees, training them to enhance themselves and enrich the organization at the same time, keep them motivated and enthusiastic and encourage high performance. Other areas include hrm and psychology, benefits and compensation, equal opportunity to minorities, women and physically challenged, and compliance with regulations.

An organization's success depends increasingly on the human resources manager. His job is not only to recruit people who have the right qualifications, but also the right approach and attitude. Nobody can envy him these tasks. The human resources manager has to balance, through hrm and psychology, the need to have staff working together in the direction set by the organization with individuality and creativity of the employees.

An effective human resource management has some fundamental features like a system to bring suggestions and complaints and to apply/think over them immediately and effectively. Some other functions of a good human resource management are to have a responding appraisal system that contains the facility of giving counsel to each employee in his/her career and in building their personality and also an honest feedback mechanism.

All organizations, be it is a large corporation, a non-profit or a small business unit, has to take care of its people if it has to grow and prosper. It must identify and nurture those who are high performers and groom them for leadership roles. At the same time, it has to identify and help average performers to improve themselves and their productivity. It can't hope to achieve these objectives, without a well-developed human resource management. Basicly, it has to keep its people happy, since a happy person is even a productive one.