Thoughts on Human Resource Management

Thoughts on Human Resource Management

People really do not want to be managed.  Unconsciously, they resent management because you cannot really manage people, what you can do is to lead people.  You can manage time, property, a system, a procedure and even a culture or a behavior – but people?  An attempt to manage people is difficult task, but leading people is as easy as a snap.

Leading and managing people are diametrically opposed concepts, I for one, subscribes to leading people.  Now, there are many types of leadership – one could adopt the autocratic type of leadership, a democratic type of leadership or even a laissez-faire type of leadership.  Some would even ask about a principle type of leadership, a servant type of leadership, a transactional type of leadership or even a visionary type of leadership.

Personally, I subscribe to all of the enumerated type of leadership.  The usage depends on the situation and the type of people one is currently dealing with and if there is one thing that I learned about leadership, nothing and no one is permanent, in fact, permanence or the appearance of permanence is an illusion that could easily be challenge by a single person, event or even a place.

Problems in Human Resource Management could easily be solved by simple execution of whatever solution formulated and decided.  My philosophy here is simple, execution and making things happen.

In my experience, whatever the problem is, there is already an easy solution.  The difficulty lies in the execution of the solution.  Most people delay executing solutions in the hope that things might change.  Guess what?  Problems not acted do not change, in fact, if there is a change on the horizon; it is usually for the worse.

Making things happen means acting of the plans and scheme formulated.  Plans are useless without actions.  Men are defined by their actions and not by their plans.  Actions are far more important than plans.  Plans are inputs while actions are outputs.  In Human Resource Management, actions are more important than inputs.

Academicians sometimes have a way of complicating things, I for one subscribes to keeping it short and simple.  Besides, that which you comprehend, you could simplify.  If you cannot simplify a concept or an idea means that you really haven’t understood the essence of such.