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and consumer stores. Under the Factories Act, Welfare officers are expected to take care of
safety, health and welfare of employees. The HR managers are often asked to oversee if
everything is in line with the company legislation and stipulation.
7.Legal consultant: Personnel manager plays a role of grievance handling, settling of disputes,
handling disciplinary cases, doing collective bargaining, enabling the process of joint
consultation interpretation and implementation of various labor laws, contacting lawyers
regarding court cases, filing suits in labor courts, industrial tribunals, civil courts and the like.
In some organizations the above administrative functions are being outsourced to external
providers in recent times, with a view to increasing efficiency as also cutting operational costs.
Technology is being put to good use to automate many of the administrative tasks.
Operational Roles:
These roles are tactical in nature and include recruiting, training, and developing employees
coordinating HR activities with the actions of managers and supervisors throughout the
organizations and resolving differences between employees.
1.Recruiter: Winning the war for talent has become an important job of HR managers in recent
times in view of the growing competition for people possessing requisite knowledge, skills and
experience. HR managers have to use their experience to good effect while laying down lucrative
career paths to new recruits without, increasing the financial burden to the company.
2.Trainer /developer/ motivator: Apart from talent acquisition talent retention is also
important. To this end, HR managers have to find skill deficiencies from time to time, offer
meaningful training opportunities, and bring out the latent potential of people through intrinsic
and extrinsic rewards which are valued by employers.
3.Coordinator /linking pin: The HR manager is often deputed to act as a linking pin between
various divisions / departments of an organization. The whole exercise is meant to develop
rapport with divisional heads, using PR and communication skills of HR executives to the
maximum possible extent.
4.Mediator: The personnel manager acts as a mediator in case of friction between two
employees, groups of employees, superiors, and subordinates and employees and management
with the sole objective of maintaining industrial harmony.
Better morale
Reduced turnover
Freedom of Speech
Right to privacy
Numerous laws
In procurement
Development
compensation,
integration,
maintenance
separation.