What is Human Resource Management?

What is Human Resource Management?

 

Figure 1 – People (Human Resource) Management

Human Resource Management is the policies and practices involved in carrying out the ―people‖ or human resource aspects of a management position, including recruiting, screening, training, rewarding, and appraising.

(Dessler, 2005)

According to Henderson, People management can also be defined as the set of management processors that are affecting and influencing employees as job holders.(Henderson, 2017)

Human resource management can also be defined as the role within an organisation that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organisation. 

Somewhere around 1970s, that the human work strength was recognized as a resource. In one of the early references, Armstrong stated that in an enterprise “the key resource is people” (Armstrong, 1977).

 

 

The below YouTube clip discusses Importance of Human Resource, interviewed few CEOs for HR HOUSTON.

 

What is Global Human Resource Management?

 

Figure 3 – Global Human Resource Management

According to Armstrong (2009) Handbook of  Human Resource Management Practice, International human resource management is the process of managing people across international boundaries by multinational companies. It involves the worldwide management of people, not just the management of expatriates. 

Traditionally, international HR has been about managing an international workforce – the higher level organizational people working as expatriates, frequent commuters, cross-cultural team members and specialists involved in international knowledge transfer. Global HRM is not simply about these staff. It concerns managing all HRM activities, wherever they are, through the application of global rule sets. (Brewster et al, 2005)

References

Dessler, G.(2005) Human Resource Management. The Strategic Role of Human Resource Management. 10th Ed. West Alabama:Prentice Hall Inc.

Armstrong, M. (1977) A Handbook of Personnel Management Practice. 1st Ed. London: Kogan Page.

Armstrong, M. (2009) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice r HR. 11^th ed. UK: Kogan Page.

Brewster, C, Sparrow, P and Harris, H (2005) Towards a new model of globalizing HRM,

The International Journal of Human Resource Management,16 (6), pp 949–70

Bibliography

Brewster, C. (2007) ‘A European perspective on HRM’, European J. International Management,

Vol. 1, No. 3, pp.239–259.