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“Human resource management reflects a long-standing capitalist tradition in which workers are regarded as commodity.” (Guest: 1999). Hard approach to human resource management is a pragmatic perspective to human resource management which looks upon people as ‘resource’ and measures the tangible benefits accruing from their deployment.
ty and survival. The resources that are available to the firm fall into three general categories: physical, organizational, and human. In discussing how to gain a competi - tive advantage in the global market, Porter (1990) noted that management of the human resources is the most critical of the three. The idea of treating human resources
1.3 Human Resource Management: concept 1.3.1. People who manage 1.3.2. People at work 1.3.3. Definitions of Human Resource Management 1.3.4. Management of Men is a challenging job 1.3.5. Features of Human Resource Management 1.4 Role of Human Resource Management 1.5 Importance of Human Resource Management 1.6 Challenges of Human Resource Management
Human Resources management has an important role to play in equipping organizations to meet the challenges of an expanding and increasingly competitive sector. Increase in staff numbers, contractual diversification and changes in demographic profile which compel the HR managers to reconfigure the role and significance of human resources management.
In 1982, Peters and Waterman utilized the McKinsey model in order to demonstrate the components that make organizations successful. Seven aspects (the seven S’s) were highlighted: strategy, structure, staff (employees), shared values (primarily organizational culture), systems, skills and style (pri-marily leadership).
1 Human resource management 3 Human resource management defined 3; Human resource system 4; Models of HRM 5; Aims of HRM 8; Policy goals of HRM 10; Characteristics of HRM 11; Reservations about HRM 15; HRM and personnel management 18; How HR impacts on organizational performance 20; HRM in context 24 2 Human capital management 29
Human resource management is a strategic, integrated and coherent approach to the employment, development and well-being of the people working in organisations (Armstrong, 2016:7) Human resource management is the process through which management builds the workforce and tries to create the human performances that the organisation needs.
