Difference between Soft HRM and Hard HRM.

Soft HRM:

• People are assets
• Developing/investing in human capital
• High employee loyalty
• Well rewarded and satisfying work
• Positive employment relationship
• Planalism 
• collaborative 

Hard HRM:

• People are a cost to be minimise
• Instrumental use of labour 
• Unitarisation (All have same interest)
• Exploitative work practice (compliance, low pay, low job security)
• Calculative (exactly what I want from you)

General knowledge.

1. Committed People → Amount of innovative products → Competitive advantage 
                 ↑→→→→→→→→ Directly related →→→→→→→→→↑

2. What is people management?
It's all those management utilities administer, recruitment, selection, work for, design, motive and control workers.

Useful/Important keywords

1. Diktat:
A diktat is a statute, harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor, or a dogmatic decree. The term has acquired a pejorative sense, to describe a set of rules dictated by a foreign power or an unpopular local power.

2. Commitment:
Want to.
Have emotional attachment to do something.
The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.
An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action.

3. Hard Human Resource Management:
Organisation view labour as cost.
Emphasizes the quantitative, calculative and business-strategic aspects of managing human resources in as 'rational' a way as for any other economic factor.

4. Soft Human Resource Management:
Workers are seen as assets.
The soft version traces its roots to the human relations school, it emphasizes communication, motivation and leadership.

Resources

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Assignment

Differences between personal management and Human Resource Management.

Content & Recommended books

Content:

1. Rise of Human Resource Management.
2. Evolution of HRM from personal management.
3. Human resource planning & labour market analysis.
4. Recruitment.
5. Selection (Psych testing & profiling).
6. Reward management.
7. Training and development.
8. Performance appraisal/management.
9. Managing under-performance.
10. organisation culture.
11. Flexibility & downsizing (firm-model).
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12. The self & power of freedom. 
13. Technologies of the self.
14. Intro to ______ studies.
15. Motivation & the self.

Recommended books:

1. Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
2. Human Resource Management theory & practice by John Bratton (Author) & Jeffrey Gold (Author)
3. Contemporary Human Resource Management by Tom Redman (Author) & Adrian Wilkinson (Author)
4. The Realities of Work by Mike Noon & Paul Blyton