Q.Explain the objectives of HRM.

HRM's objectives are usually explained as four linked levels, moving from society at large down to the individual employee. …

1. Societal objectives — HRM must ensure the organisation meets its legal and ethical obligations to society, such as complying with labour laws, providing safe working conditions, and avoiding discriminatory employment practices.
2. Organisational objectives — HRM exists to help the organisation achieve its own goals; HR policies must ultimately serve organisational effectiveness, not exist purely for their own sake.
3. Functional objectives — HRM must keep the HR department's own contribution appropriately scaled to what the organisation actually needs — neither over-resourced nor under-resourced relative to the organisation's size and complexity.
4. Personal objectives — HRM must help individual employees achieve their own personal goals (satisfaction, growth, fair pay), at least to the extent that doing so also strengthens their contribution to the organisation. …

Listing only organisational objectives ("to help the company succeed") and omitting societal, functional, and personal objectives, which th …