The functions of human resource management may be classified as under:
(i) Managerial function
(ii) Operative functions

Universally relevant :
Human Resource Management has universal relevance.
Goal Oriented :
The accomplishment of organizational goals is made possible through best utilization of human resource is an organization.

(i)The branch of management that deals with managing human resource is known as Human resource management.
(ii) Human resource management is a function of management concerned with hiring, motivating and maintaining people in an organisation. It focuses on people in an organisation.

(i) The organisation recruits, selects and utilises high quality human resource the sustainability remains a question.
(ii) In order to accomplish personal and organisational objectives the unique asset called human resource.

According to Dale Yoder human resource management as ''the effective process of planning and directing the application, development and utilisation of human resources in employment''.

The functions of human resource management may be classified as:
(i) Managerial function
(ii) Operative function
(i) Managerial function:
Planning
Directing
Organising
Controlling
(ii) Operative function:
(i) Procurement
(ii) Compensation
(iii) Integration
(iv) Development
(v) Retention
(vi) Maintenance

The vital resource namely human resource is significant because of the following reasons:
(i) It is only through human resource all other resources are effectively used
(ii) Industrial relations depend on human resource.
(iii) Human relations is possible only through human resource
(iv) Human resource manages all other factors of production
(v) Human resource can be utilised at all levels of management
(vi) Human resources are well protected by legislative frameworks.

	Human Resources	Human Resource Management
1.	In an organisation the human resource are the employees who are inevitable for the survival and success of the enterprise.	1. Human Resource Management is a function of management concerned with hiring, motivating and maintaining people in an organisation.
2.	Human resource created all other resource.	2. It focuses on people in an organisation.

The unique, peculiar and distinctive features of human resources are as under :
(i) Human resource is the only factor of production that lives.
(ii) Human resource created all other resources.
(iii) It is only the labour of employees that is hired and not the employee himself.
(iv) Human resource exhibits innovation and creativity.

In the words of E.F.L. Breach, HRM as that part of management process which is primarily concerned with the human constituents of an organisation.

The vital resource namely human resource is Significant because of the following reasons:
(i) It is only through human resource all other resources are effectively used.
(ii) The sustainable growth of an organisation depends on the important resource called human resource.
(iii) Industrial relations depend on human resource.
(iv) Human relations is possible only through human resource.
(v) Human resource manages all other factors of production.
(vi) The skill sets of the human resources can be improved through training and development programmes.
(vii) Human resource can be utilised at all levels of management.
(viii) Human resources are well protected by legislative frame works.

The operating functions of HRM are as follows:
(i) Procurement:
Acquisition deals with job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer and promotion.
(ii) Development:
Development includes performance appraisal, training, executive development, career planning and development, organisational development.
(iii) Compensation :
It deals with job evaluation, wage and salary administration, incentives, bonus, fringe benefits and social security schemes.
(iv) Retention:
This is made possible through health and safety, welfare, social security, job satisfaction and quality of work life.
(v) Integration:
It is concerned with those activities that aim to bring about reconciliation between personal interest and organisational interest.
(vi) Maintenance:
This encourages employees to work with job satisfaction, reducing labour turnover, accounting for human resource and carrying out audit and research.

1. In order to accomplish personal and organisational objectives the unique asset called human resource.
2. The branch of management that deals with managing human resource is known as Human Resource Management.
3. In an organisation the human resource are the employees who are inevitable for the survival and success of the enterprise.
4. It incudes the overall progress of the employee and the enterprise

The characteristics of Human Resource :
(i) Human resource is the only factor of production that lives.
(ii) Human resource created all other resources.
(iii) It is only the labour of employees that is hired and not the employee himself.
(iv) Human resource exhibits innovation and creativity.
(v) Human resource alone can think, act analyse and interpret.
(vi) Human resources are emotional beings.