| Human Resource Management (HRM) is both an | | | | or company which recruits, develops and utilizes an |
| academic theory and a business practice. It is based | | | | organization's personnel in the way which would |
| on the notion that employees are firstly human, and | | | | benefit the firm's objectives. Creating alignment |
| secondly should not be treated as a basic business | | | | between an organization's HRM strategy and the core |
| resource. HRM is also seen as an understanding of the | | | | objectives of a business is seen to be essential. |
| human aspect of a company and its strategic | | | | Human resources management's functions extend to |
| importance. | | | | deciding the type of staff needed (manpower, labor, |
| Human Resource Management is seen as moving on | | | | office staff, etc.), evaluation of the personnel's |
| from a simple "personnel" approach because it is | | | | performances and granting the appropriate |
| preventative of potential problems, and secondly it | | | | compensations and benefits to them. The human |
| should be a major aspect of the company philosophy, | | | | resource manager holds the personnel's data, records, |
| in which all managers and employees are champions | | | | policies, and has the access to the pool of other |
| of HRM-based policies and philosophy. | | | | applicants when the company's need for new |
| The basic premise of the academic theory of HRM is | | | | additional staff arises. |
| that humans are not machines. Therefore we need to | | | | The human resource staff is the foremost |
| have an interdisciplinary examination of people in the | | | | implementer of the company's rules and regulations |
| workplace. Therefore fields such as psychology, | | | | regarding staff/personnel behavior and discrepancies. |
| sociology, and critical theories such as postmodernism | | | | The human resource department also covers the |
| and post-structuralism play a major role. | | | | regular updating and improvement of personnel |
| Critics of HRM have noted that HRM suffers the | | | | performances through development activities, surveys |
| problem of the connotation of its own name: treating | | | | and evaluation exercises. |
| humans as a resource. | | | | Copyright 2007 Ismael D. |
| Human Resource Management is part of a business | | | | |