Human resource is wealth. It was considered wealth in ancient times. The true wealth of the great patriarch Abraham who lived in BC was estimated by the number of his slaves. Size of his cattle and gold and silver were other two components. He had no land of his own. Still he was considered to be wealthy. During ancient times, farming and war were two major occupations. Farming to sustain living and war to protect themselves and all they had. Both needed human resource. After wards, it seems that people got a wrong notion that money (gold and silver) is wealth. Wisdom is wealth is a true concept. Wisdom is also a human resource. But the single fact of being born and brought up in a particular race won’t make anybody wealthy.
Now we know that all means of creating wealth and fighting war use
human resource. Human resource is the basis of wealth and war.
In ancient India, occupations were divided on the basis of cast system.
Cast system was a of division of occupation. Or otherwise, it was the wisdom of
the ancients for effective human resource management. It turned out to be not a
blessing for the majority. The ruled and ruling class gradually developed. The
division of occupation was permanent for generations. Labour itself was divided
into noble and ignoble. Even modern India is suffering from the negative
influence of this human resource management based on cast system. Still it was
a kind of human resource management. The ancient Indians formed a management
system for human resource tells us of its importance.
Today India is considered to be a large market for trade and business.
The consideration is based on the human resource available in India. Customers
and employees are available in India. The population of a country is a double
sided sword now. It is a threat to a nation – the nation has to occupy, feed
and protect them. At the same time, population is a blessing – it makes the
nation a large market for trade and business. A nation can prosper or
impoverish on the basis of human resource management. Every nation should have
a special programme to manage human resource for its prosperity.
In India, compulsory pension scheme is practiced by the Government
sector. The private sector does not practice compulsory pension scheme. But the
public sector (Government sector) still practices it. Compulsory pension scheme
is foolish and disastrous. Compulsory pension at a particular age (in Kerala
state, India, the compulsory pension age is 56), is rejecting human resource
that can be used for the prosperity of the country. It may be argued that the
high population in India will never create any shortage of human resource. But
availability is not a wise excuse for wastage.
Human was resource was the strength of King Alexander, the English
Empire and all wars fought, failed and won. Human resource is the backbone of
every business or industrial firm. It is the strength of social and religious
organizations.
Human resources are:
1.
Physical strength
2. Intellectual
capacity
3. Strength
of the mind
4.
Emotional strength
Managing human resource is: Engaging
human resource and Empowering human resource
Engaging or appointing people is the
easiest way to add human resource. It is addition of content. People are readily
available human resources. Sufficient number of ministers gives sound sleep to
a king. There is a solution to every problem.
Equally important to adding content is
empowering human resource. Human resource that an employer added is raw
materials. We can use it as it is or empower it.
Empowering is for:
Refining human resource
Sharpening human resource
Discovering human resource
Refine the raw resource so that it will
be useful in our firm.
Sharpen it for a better result.
Discover hidden abilities in a
particular person.
By the above mentioned three methods of
empowerment we can multiply human resource.
Multiplying human resource is equivalent
to adding more human resources
It is engaging empowered resources in a
particular person.
When we empower human resources we are:
Multiplying human resource
Multiplying time
Multiplying wealth
Every employee is a condensed stock of
human resource. The employer can refine, sharpen and discover the human
resource.
Wise employers empower their employees.
How shall we empower human resources?
Let us read it in another blog.
Further readings:
Professor Jacob Abraham
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