What is human resource management? It’s the social discipline of developing employees and personnel to create a value to the organization. Human resource management or HRMS includes: Performing job analysis, Planning personnel needs and recruitment, Selecting right people for the right job, Orientation and employee training, Management of wages and salaries, providing incentives and benefits, doing a performance appraisals, resolving disputes and communication with all employees at all levels. It is also called as personnel management.

So basically HRMS is the process of managing people in organizations in a well structured and thorough manner. The task of human resource management is not only horizontal ie. employee to employee, but also vertical, employee to management. HRM must enable the harmonization and relationships between management and employee and to bring the corporate or organization core value to it’s employees.

HRMS is mainly about people in organizations, so in multinational company they call HR Managers as People Managers. In organizations, the HR manager or the people manager is no longer seen as someone who takes care of the activities described in the traditional way. In fact, most organizations have different departments dealing with Staffing, Payroll, and Retention etc. Instead, the HR manager is responsible for managing employee expectations via  the management objectives and reconciling both to ensure employee fulfillment and realization of management objectives.

HRMS is often help by tools to do the job like using software such as payroll software, recruitment software, performance management software, talent management software, or integrated sophisticated human resource management software. HRMS mainly in recruitment or staffing department often using psychometric tools to give a glimpse about a person or individual behavior.