Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today

 

Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today

Human resource management is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns, (Dessler, 2011) its directly involved with people in an organization.

HRM is also about strategic, integrated and coherent approach to the employment, development and well-being of the people working in organizations. (Amstrong ,2009) 

Human resource management involves all management decisions and action that affect the nature of the relationship between the organization and its employees – its human resources. (Beer et al, 1984)

HRM comprises a set of policies designed to maximize organizational integration, employee commitment, flexibility and quality of work. (Guest, 1987) considering the above mentioned various definitions we can come to a concussion of HRM is so important to an organization to achieve its goals and plans, HR will also play a major role by utilizing resources towards the organizational achievements.

 

In nineteenth century “ Welfare Officer” is in charge of welfare of the employees of an organization, time to time the designations were changed due to the role of this Welfare officer was extended to  many development and other areas, finally in twentieth century HR department converted as  ‘ Human Capital Department “ which clearly shows the intakes of very high values to this department.

 


Figure 01 – Evaluation of HRM

(Anon, 2013)

For much of the twentieth century, personnel/HR managers focused on day-to-day transactional types of activities. For example, in the earliest firms, they first took over hiring and firing from supervisors, ran the payroll department, and administered benefits plans. (Dessler 2011). But today the HRM is more concern on employee’s job role, efficiency, his carrier development and employees’ health, further the HRM invest in training and development of employees, OBT, in field and in-house trainings which will help the employee to work in a comfortable environment for a better expected outcome.

References

Anon, 2013. Evolution of human resource management. HR Dictionary. Available at:

Armstrong, M. (2009) Armstrong’s handbook of human resource management practice, 11th edition, London .

Garry Dessler (2011) Human Resource management, 13th edition, Florida USA.

Becker, B.E., Huselid, M.A., Pickus, P.S., & Spratt, M.F. (1997). HR as a source of shareholder value: research and recommendations. Human Resource Management

 

Guest D (1987) Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations Journal of Management Studies 24, 503-521 . Google Scholar, Crossref.

 

Comments

  1. N R Waduge. MBA28 November 2021 at 21:04

    HRM have made massive improvements as a consequence of rapid growth of IT industry. It is further developed by adding modern technologies like artificial intelligence etc. As your your article reflects, HR is always subjected to change with time.

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  2. Sampathpc6 December 2021 at 09:57

    With Modern issues and directions Human resources sector developing day by day. Good effort you done to explain it in here.

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  3. D.L.A Sanjeewa.13088717 December 2021 at 04:20

    Simply pushing people for the work has been changed to the inspire people. In my view people have unbelievable potential and every manager should be a HR manager. With the evolution of HR is getting changed to get more from people by inspiring them. This is great move Amila.

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  4. D.L.A Sanjeewa.13088717 December 2021 at 04:33

    This is a art and science. Delegation, training, inspiring, coaching. Etc. until you make 100 of people like you, your life is a mess.

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