Role of Human Resource in Industry and Society:

Role of human resource or personnel manager in the industry and society arises from the fact that personnel are indispensible resources for carrying out any productive operation. To quote Oliver Sheldon, “No industry can render efficient so long as the basic fact remains unrecognized that it is principally human. It is not a mass of machines and technical processes but a body of men. An industrial society is conspicuous by complex nature of forces which influence the behaviour of individuals and groups within and outside their workplace.  The focus of personnel management for a long has been management of industrial relations including employer’s relationship with individual employee and the relationship between management and unorganized unions. The term  ‘industrial relations’ and ‘labour relations’ were popularly used with reference to personnel function due to rise in collective bargaining and other related functions.

The role of personnel management in industry is underlined by the complex and dynamic nature of environment under which the modern large-scale industries functions. The  impact of technology on organization structure, politicization of workers’ union, and the growing consciousness of industrial employees about their rights and privileges, have made the role of personnel management increasingly more important in industrial undertaking.