Role of Human Resource Manager in an Organisation

 In most of the big enterprises, human resource department is set up under the leadership of personnel manager who has specialised knowledge and skills. The human resource manager performs managerial as well as operative functions. Since he is a manager, he performs the basic functions of management like planning, organising, directing and controlling to manage his department. He has also to perform certain operative functions of recruitment, selection, training, placement, etc., which the problems to management, the human resource managers attach highest priority to the settlement of industrial disputes than anything else. The role of human resource management in industry is underlined by the complex and dynamic nature of environment under which the modern large-scale industries function. The impact of technology on organisation structure, politicisation of workers‘ unions, and the growing consciousness of industrial employees about their rights and privileges, have made the role of personnel management increasingly more important in industrial undertakings. The task has also been facilitated by the greater recognition of the value of human resources in industry and application of human resource development (HRD) techniques by the enlightened managers in modern organisations..