HR management may be useful in almost all areas where need for new people meets with possible shortage: see geriatric care agencies facing increasing amount of elderly people. The most impressive are regarded developing branches, including:
- novel technologies, e.g. IT programmers of mobile solutions, cloud technologies, medical IT, medical robotics, bioNEMS, bioMEMS, etc.,
- relatively (lack of graduates) novel ideas, e.g. cognitive science, neurmarketing, gamification, many neuro- disciplines,
- branches, which cannnot be relocated to cheaper countries, e.g. India, China, nut have to operate locally :)
HR management is all encompassing and is applicable to each and every sphere of work where human involvement is required. However in India,I don't find much involvement of HR management in unorganized sector. Large number of rural men & women are involved in agriculture and tea plantation & plucking as laborers, however no serious efforts seem to have been taken to develop this large human resource, through training and development , for higher productivity as well as to increase their earning capacity so as to improve their standard of living.
ok, @kalpana R, so what is the differenciation abetween skilled HR manager and non skilled HR, bcos if u r deputed as HR manager. u r already supposed to be better acquinted for the Hr functions. Here in comes the regular training ( updated skill development and training), to tackle HR function.
O.K @ Ekta sharma. I answered in that same meaning. HR managers always skilled persons. But any difficult circumstance how they tackled that problems, it is important i.e. excution/ implemention of their skills.
HR management is applicable to every sphere of work. HR is applicable in all industries and service organizations. There are HR departments in universities, hospitals, insurance companies, ministries, and other institutions.
There are many organizations where HR activities are there (in fact all organizations), small or large, profit or non profit, manufacturing or services. HR practices is context specific. studying the HR activities/ practices has hardly to do with the necessity of an organized HR departments. the scope of HR can be broaden as the dynamics of industry changes according to context.