Q. Impediments to the progress of HRM

1. The function of personnel management cannot be performed by a designated personnel manager alone.

2. The attitude of employees, come a management and particularly line managers is not always favourable towards personnel manager.

3. Personnel manager have to invariably depend on lawyers due to the exercise legalistic approach to labour problems.

4. Profit maximization through exploitation of labour.

5. Absence of training facilities necessary for the development of personnel management as a profession, absence of job security and job satisfaction, absence of profession attitude.

6. The educational and research institutes have not yet taken concrete steps to work with the industries activity.

7. Personnel people find themselves in low status positions.

8. Reluctance on the part of personnel people to adopt, accept challenging jobs and to move from organization job to another for the betterment.

9. The legalistic approach to personnel management has impeded the growth of personnel management along desired lines in India.

10. Tradition bound family aims at profit maximization even today.

11. Most of the personnel managers do not have the requisite qualifications, abilities, creative skills, talents, etc, to win over the line managers.

12. In some organizations personnel function is placed at third or fourth level in the organizational hierarchical or in some organizations even under the supervision of production managers.