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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Introduction This paper presents a discussion of human resources management, which is the more inclusive successor to traditional personnel management (Chruden, and Sherman, 1984). Contemporary human resources management "represents a systems approach . . (which) recognizes the dynamic interaction of personnel functions with each other and with the objectives of the organization" (Chruden, and Sherman, 1984, 4). Importantly, the human resources management concept "recognizes that human resources planning must be coordinated closely with the organi zation's strategic and related planning functions" (Chruden, and Sherman, 1984, 4).The Scope of Human Resources Management

The scope of human resources management encompasses a wide variety of organizational planning, administrative, and supportactivities. The responsibilities of the human resources man ager involve organizational interactions in both the external and the internal environments (Chruden, and Sherman, 1984).

Managers have for years proclaimed that an organization's people were its most valuable resource. All too often, however, this statement represented the real extent of top

organizational interest in the human component of an organization's resource base. Intensive strategic planning and management was reserved for financial, physical, and technological resources. In the late1970s, however, a widening recognition of the significance of human resources to an organization began to develop (Chrunden, and Sherman, 1984).

Much of the early interest in a transition from the older concept of personnel management to the new concept of human resources management was prompted by declining productivity in American organizations, and the competitive threat of the Japanese. Japanese management became a buzzphrase in American organizations, and Japanese management is, essentially, human resources management (Chrunden, and Sher...

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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 15:07, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1684107.html