The role of HRM in new public management
FOR most, human resources management (HRM) is better known within the context of private institutions. HRM generally involves proper procurement, evaluation, recruitment, and training of job candidates or applicants. In addition to this, the HR Department is tasked to programs and manage employees. This is seen every day in most private companies and is an integral part of any company’s survival and, most especially, its success. This is how private or - prove and maintain one of their most valuable resources – human resources – or what is also called human capital. Through the application of different methods and techniques for increased employee growth, effectiveness, and retention, many companies within the private sector have
Within the public sector in the Philippine setting, the role of HRM, especially in local government units (LGUs), is related to the forecasting and planning of human capital, selection and - ing, performance management, employee discipline, and the promotion of the productivity and welfare of each employee. All these are vital elements to the success of any organization
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as HRM marshals the productive capabilities of its employees or members. Conceivably, HRM in the public sector could be a change through the development of human capital.
Fortunately, within the last few decades, many theorists and practitioners started looking closely at how HR strategies and theories could be used in the public sector in order to improve the quality of public service.
In the past, the public sector delivered public services and formed its organization through the bureaucratic hierarchy, direct control, centralization, planning these bureaucratic concepts, with reference to Max Weber, began to be regarded as “no longer relevant” in the present and, therefore, had to be dropped. The emerging recommendation of numerous experts was to utilize market-based public service management, or enterprise culture. The adaptation of these new methods was labelled New Public Management ( NPM). Under NPM, tall hierarchies are
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