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Why Line Manager Is Increasing Important

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In contemporary society, every company is meeting resources shortage, and then a new conception “human resource” proposed by economists. They suggest that if a corporation wants to be outstanding in the future, he must pay more attention to Human Resource Management (HRM). Recently, a large number of researches have indicated that using HR practices, such as training and development, performance appraisal, information sharing or participation, in HRM will in a certain term improve HRM outcomes (Connie Zheng, Mark Morrison & Grant O’Neill, 2006: 50). However, with the development of Human Resource Management, HR practices are no longer just be used by HR managers, increasing line managers are required to execute HR practices at the same …show more content…

Although the trend of developing new management style is unavoidable, there are some obstacles. Line managers are reluctant to new responsibilities. Traditionally, line managers mainly focus on short term requirement (deJong et al. 1999) in terms of expanding sales and cost efficient and so forth (Harrison, 2002 cited in McGuire, 2008), consequently, line managers are unlikely to spend time on exploring how to coach employees which is unrelated to job (Harrison, 2002: pp 83). What’s more, HRM is a relative fresh knowledge for them, thus they need be trained, nevertheless, line managers resistant it via rejecting to attend training courses and non-implementation of punitive sanctions (Cunningham & James, 2001). In addition, how to deal with the relationship with HR managers is another problem that line managers should face. Huang Wu (2008) states that according to some line managers, HR managers should only be responsible for trivial business such as signing contract with employees, applying for a leave or clearing wage and so forth, while under the majority situations, line managers should pay more attention to financial, market, quality and security problems and then ignore the worthiest resources—human resources. (Huang Wu, 2008)They usually regard

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