Understanding human resource management: Concept, basic functions and clarification

Both public and private organizations heavily rely on human resources to be functional. However, proper management of this resource is needed that means right persons should be in the right positions to achieve organizational goals. This study focuses on major human resource management functions to understand human resource management clearly. For better understanding a story example has been given to know how a person unconsciously performs human resource management functions in his daily activities. But large organizations have is to perform these functions more consciously, extensively and obviously systematically since their area of activities is very much wider. Actually knowledge comes from practical life. The knowledge of human resource management has also come from practical life which is a focus of this study.