Q.Explain any four features of HRM.

HRM's nature is best understood through a set of features that together explain why it is treated as a distinct management discipline touching every department.

1. Continuous/never-ending process — HRM does not stop once employees are hired; planning, training, appraising, and maintaining good relations with employees continues for as long as the organisation exists.
2. People-oriented — HRM is concerned with people at work, both as individuals and as members of groups, and tries to get the best from them while treating them fairly.
3. Pervasive function — HRM is not confined to the HR department alone; every manager, in every department, performs HR-related tasks (hiring, guiding, appraising) for their own team, making HRM part of every manager's job.
4. Both an art and a science — HRM is a science because it rests on a systematic body of knowledge and technique (job analysis, wage-fixation, appraisal methods), and an art because applying this knowledge to real people successfully requires judgement, tact, and sensitivity that no formula alone can supply.

Describing HRM as confined only to the HR department — the pervasive feature specifically emphasises that every manager performs HR functions for their own team, with the HR department playing only an advisory/staff role.