Directorate of distance education master of business administration

HRM and System 
 
HRM is a subsystem of organization as a system. Therefore, it 
must be linked to other sub-systems of the organization. When the level 
of subsystem are considered, each subsystem can be treated as system. So 
HRM is a system and therefore, in order to understand it as a system, its 
features must be identified; its subsystems and their linkages should be 
scrutinized.
Features of HRM as a System 
 
The following are the features of HRM. 
1.  
HR Management as a Social System 
 
HRM is a social system and unlike biological or mechanical 
systems, has the characteristics of social system. HRM as a system 
consists of many subsystems which are integrated to constitute an entity. 

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HR Management as Open System
 
HRM, like any other social system, is an open system. It interacts 
with environment. Out of this interaction, it takes various resources, 
allocates and combines these resources to produce desirable outputs 
which are exported to the environment. Thus HRM works as input-
output mediator. These features suggest that HRM is not free to decide the 
things on its own but due weightage has to be given to the environmental 
factors affecting the management of an organization.