Line management refers to the administration activities that relate directly to the product or services of the organization. Line managers manage employees and establish relationships with customers and suppliers. They are responsible towards staff managers who provide directives for carrying out tasks in their respective departments. They manage the lower layers of the management hierarchy and have managerial and supervisory responsibility towards employees in the operational level. In majority of the organizations, line managers are charged with numerous HR-related tasks like employee training, breaking out news to employees, employee empowerment, team building, performance appraisal, employee motivation and other activities that are usually within the remit of HR. Line managers are promoted from within the team of employees working in the organization. In this assignment, we are going to discuss about the support of line management in an organization on the effective functioning of HRM practices. This paper illustrates how line managers carry out their HR activities.
Nidhi Gautham, Management Consultant, Bikanerwala Foods Pvt Ltd. Frontline managers play crucial roles on the implementation and enacting of HR policies and practices. HRM is an approach planned to manage people in the organization effectively for better performance. HRM aims at establishing a more open, flexible and caring management style for employees and staffs to be motivated, developed and managed through which departmental goals can be achieved effectively and efficiently. Good HRM practices are instrumental in helping achieve departmental objectives and enhance productivity. There should always be a positive two way communication among line managers and HR department so that they can ensure that employees have increased work satisfaction and show a increase in overall performance or