Human Resource Management ( Hrm ) - 1562 Words

Human resource management (HRM) is an important strategic and systematic approach that provides each company with the opportunity to create policies and practices, as well as to establish administrative forms (Pfeffer, 2007). According to Armstrong (2009) HRM is an approach that deals with ‘employment, development, and well-being of the people working in organizations’. However HRM has evolved significantly through the years due to the rapid social, economic, political and environmental changes. The HRM has replaced the personal management in terms of managing workforce and sometimes has a similar description in use. It is claimed that HRM differs from personnel management, being a holistic approach and recognizing people as assets and not†¦show more content†¦Also it is mentioned that employees started to earn wages and be part of a company. Therefore the transformation of the workplace led to another labor division where skilful and qualified people should be identified for the right position. Although the industrial society generated managers and supervisors to organise the workforce, the policies that followed were paternalistic and employees were working under the fear of inadequate safety and prosperity (Dulebohn, Ferris and Stodd 1995). Then, the appearance of welfare workers came to improve employment relationships. Workers started to have personal benefits and amenities, working under better conditions. This approach arrived in order to obstacle unionization and struggles, improving simultaneously the management in order to motivate workers to be more effective and productive. After the civil war welfare work programmes increased to compensate for the union formation and welfare secretaries became part of enterprises to manage them. Welfare secretary was the first form of manager and then evolved in the term personnel manager, where managers are responsible for employee recruitment, selection, payroll, welfare, development, traini ng and exit (Dulebohn, Ferris and Stodd 1995, SOLOMON, BOZGA and MATEESCU 2013). In addition to this evolution new approaches developed for a better management, focusing on the increase of