Career as a HR Manager: Be the Peoples Person
The lowdown
HR managers have to look after the recruitment, learning, development and welfare of a company's 
human resources. Their key focus is on recruiting, training, team-building, performance updates, salary, benefits and increments, employee health, safety and amenities. The manager is also responsible for mobilising the workforce to achieve the company's objectives. Roles can change from organisation to organisation. A manager might be dealing with all HR issues in a small organisation and handling certain responsibilities in a bigger company.
Clock Work
9-10 am: Plan the day with special focus on priority tasks
10-11 am: Attend to priority tasks / crisis if any
11am-12pm: Focus on process setting systems
12-1 pm: Meeting with consultants, vendors and agencies
2-4 pm: Progress meeting with the team
4-6.30 pm: Closing on executional / operational plans
6.30-7 pm: Closing on updates and daily task list
8 pm: Head for home
The Payoff
The starting salary of a management trainee with a PG diploma in HR can range from R2 lakh to R2.3 lakh a year
With three years' experience as HR manager, one can expect to take home R9 lakh a year
At the director level, salaries can be in the range of R1 lakh and above a month. With more experience one can rake in as much as R27 lakh a year, for managing a team of around 6 - 10 people
Skills/Traits
- Ability to understand human
- Relations
- Leadership skills
- Negotiation skills
- Should have good knowledge of the industry
- Being a people's person helps - and some counselling skills can also come handy
- Understanding of different cultures
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to take a hard call, tocreate a win-win situation for the organisation and staff getting there
One can obtain a bachelor's degree in human resources administration and management. One could opt for other disciplines as well, such as psychology. Follow this up with a master's or MBA programme in human resources. A summer internship in a company's HR department will stand you in good stead. Education and experience both count equally for succeeding in this profession
Institutes
- XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur, www.xlri.ac.in
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, www.tiss.edu
- Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, www.mdi.ac.in
- Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune, www.scmhrd.edu
- International Management Institute, Delhi, www.imi.edu
- Loyola Institute of Business Admistration, Chennai, www.liba.edu
- Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, www.imt.edu
- Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi, www.fms.edu
Pros And Cons
- Being part of the recruitment process, one can get great satisfaction in outfitting an organisation with the right people
- You are responsible for nurturing and helping people develop in the organisation and doing well by lend a helping hand to others
- Playing the mediator between the management and employees can be stressful
- Sometimes one needs to put personal feelings aside and make hard decisions based on facts
Source: HT Horizons
Date: 1st April, 2011
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