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Leadership Development in Modern Era
Shikha Verma
Assistant Professor
S.D.College (Lahore), Ambala Cantt.
vermashikha13@yahoo.co.in
Abstract
It is apparent that leadership in a company is
indispensable for a company’s success. As we,
all know that human resources are the main
part of any organization. In modern era where
technology and environment change very
frequently, in this type of atmosphere, a
business unit faced so many challenges related
to their work and development. In this paper, we
will read about Leadership Development, which
is most important task for a leader. In modern
era it becomes an important issue for managing
human resources. Beside this we also read
about different aspects about leadership
development.
Key Words:
Human resource management, Challenges of
HR in modern era, Leadership Development,
Desirable styles of leadership
Introduction
Leadership development is very important issue
of Human Resource management. And now
These days human resource management
become a wide subject itself. Organizations are
Social systems. People, who are responsible for
managing them, need to understand how they
operate. Organizations are a combination of
science and people- technology and humanity.
Leadership is an important element of the
directing function of management. The power of
leadership is the power of integrating. It is the
human force which binds a group together and
motivates it towards certain goals.
Leadership is the process of stimulating
members of group towards the achievement of
organizational goals. An effective leader directs
and integrates the activities of his followers for
fulfillment of some pre-determined objectives.
Many scholars attempt to define what leadership
is. Some may say that leadership is the act of
influencing others to follow. In a Richard
Lynch’s book, called: Lead! How public and
nonprofits managers can bring about the best in
themselves and their organizations”.
Leadership is characterized by a group of skills
and productive thoughts, aiming at creating an
organizational situation in which committed
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self- confident people work in exciting jobs that
enhance the followers self esteem.
Leadership are therefore, defined as “people
who work by influence.” They act in ways that
cause others to choose to act in accordance with
their leader’s wishes. Since power is the ability
to influence the actions of others, leadership can
then be viewed as the effective use of power.
So we should know about human resource
management before further proceedings.
Meaning of Human Resource Management:
It includes three words:
Human: refer to skilled employees
Resource: refer to limited availability
Management: refer to proper utilization of
limited resource
So Human Resource Management is the
process of proper use of limited resource.
Human Resource Management is a function
in organizations designed to maximize
employee performance in service of their
employer's strategic objectives. HRM is
primarily concerned with how people are
managed within organizations, focusing on
policies and systems.
The process of hiring and developing employees
so that they become more valuable to the
organization.
Human Resource Management includes
conducting job analyses, planning, recruiting
the right person for the right job, training,
managing salaries issues, job evaluation,
resolving disputes and communicating with
employees of all levels.
Organizations depend on people to make
them operate. An organization is nothing
without resources. If we remove the employees
from the organization, there is nothing but a pile
raw material, machines, and physical
commodities. Organization consists of the
combination of different resources, among
which human resource is the superior. But how
did these people come to be employees in the
organizations; How were they found and
selected? Why do they come to work on a
regular basis? How do they know what to do on
their jobs? How does management know if the
employees are performing adequately? It they
are not, what can be done about it? Answers of
these questions lie in the subject of human
resource management.
In other words we can say that Human Resource
Management is the process of recruitment,
selection of employee, providing proper
orientation, maintaining employee’s safety and
welfare by complying with labour laws of
concern state or country.
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Definition of Human Resource Management:
1. According to Decenzo and Robbins:-
"Human resource management is a
process consisting of four functions- acquisition, development, motivation and
maintenance of human resources."
2. According to Gary Dessler:-
"Human resource management refers
to the policies and practices one needs to
carry out the people or human resource
aspects of management position including
recruiting, screening, training, rewarding
and appraising."
From the above definitions, certain new
and some of the most important ones HRM
aspects emerge could be stated as:
1. There is an explicit link between
managing human resource and success
of administrative or management
strategy. Competition forces
management to alter the latter with
implications for the former.
2. Sector strategies cannot be appreciated
in isolation (mean in Simon’s terms) but
only as parts of the integral whole.
Human resource management regards
people as the most important resource of
an organization. It’s all policies and
practices are oriented towards improving
human resources' performance, which
directly contribute to the achievement of
organizational goals.
Functions of Human Resource Management:
While looking human resource
management more specifically, we can
find the four major functions of it. They
are respectively:-
1. Acquisition functions:- It begins
with planning of man power. It includes job
analysis, recruitment, selection and socialization
of employees.
2. Development functions:- It has
four dimensions.
i. Analyzing development needs: - It
involves human resource development planning
for employees to predetermine future human
resource development needs.
ii. Employee training:- It involves skill
development and change of attitude of human
resources.
iii. Management development:- It involves
knowledge acquisition and executives
conceptual ability.
