NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   
                    
                    
                    
                    
                   FACULTY  OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES  
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                         COURSE CODE: BUS 809    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                   COURSE TITLE: HUMAN RESOURCES  
                             MANAGEMENT    
        
                BUS 809: Human Resources 
                              Management 
                          
                          
                          
                                 COURSE DEVELOPMENT 
                                  Course Developer/ Writer 
                                    Prof. P. E. Oribabor 
                                Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 
                                            
                                      Course Editor 
                                       Prof. P. E. Oribabor 
                                Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 
                                            
                                  Programme Coordinator 
                            DR (MRS) CAROLINE ATURU-AGHEDO 
                                  Department of Administration, 
                                National Open University of Nigeria, 
                                    Victoria Island, Lagos. 
                                            
                                    Head of Department 
                              DR (MRS) YEMISI I. OGUNLELA 
                                  Department of Administration,  
                                National Open University of Nigeria, 
                                    Victoria Island, Lagos. 
   
                                     Dean of Faculty 
                                  DR TIMOTHY ISHOLA 
                                 Faculty of Management Sciences, 
                                National Open University of Nigeria, 
                                    Victoria Island, Lagos. 
                                            
                    
                    
                    
                    
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                   ID National Open University of Nigeria 2004    
                   First published 2004    
                    
                   ISBN 978-058-036-0   
                    
                    
                   Published by Longman Nigeria Plc for National Open University of Nigeria    
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                       COURSE GUIDE 
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                       Human Resources    Management  
                       Department of Administration  
                       Master of Business Administration   
                        
                       Contents    
                        
                       1 .        I n t r o d u c t i o n    
                       2 .        C o u r s e a i m s    
                       3 .        C o u r s e o b j e c t i v e s    
                       4 .        S t r u ct ur e o f t he    cou r s e    
                       5 .        A s s e s s m e n t   
                        
                        
                       Introduction   
                        
                       Organisations today face many challenges in the management of their    
                       human resources. Every month brings media reports on organisational   re-    
                       engineering,   restructuring,   delayering,    outsourcing,   workforce diversity    
                       and downsizing. Most of these change-management strategies have  
                       implications for human resource management. The purpose of this course  
                       is to provide understanding of developments in the field of human resource    
                       management, that managers of organisation will increasingly face.   
                        Most students who take human resource management (HRM) courses  
                       wil     not necessarily    become    human   resource    generalists    or    specialists.   
                       But    it    is    an   accepted     fact   today    that    everyone      who   works    in    any  
                       organisation will come in contact with HRIsA, (both effective and ineffective).   
                       Those who become operating managers must be able to manage human    
                       resource activities, because as elemental management functions, they can have  
                       major consequences    for every organisation.   
                        The overal    aim, therefore, of this course on HRM is to introduce the  
                       student to the fundamentals of managing people in organisations. Human    
                       resource is considered today as the most valuable but problematic resource    
                       available to management. What makes it such a vital resource? How is it  
                       being managed? How can it be best managed? Who should manage it?    
                        Traditionally,   its    management   was    viewed    as    the    exclusive    role    of   the    
                       personnel manager. Have changes occurred in the management of this vital   
                       resource? It wil   be necessary therefore that the student is introduced, not    
                       only to the various core functions involved in the management of people,    
                       but whose responsibility it is to do so, both efficiently and effectively