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Human Resource Management Human Resource Management

During the past decade, there has been considerable discussion in the literature about different approaches to dealing with people in an organization. There has been a new focus on valuesorientation and sociallyresponsible businesses. There has been discussion of the learning organization and the need for flexibility and creativity in the approach to business in the next century. The focus in this discussion is on the concept of human resource management and the way in which it has been applied in specific businesses. The intention is to look at this approach and assess how successful it has been in improving creativity and entrepreneurial activity within organizations.

Principles of Human Resource Management

The history of human resource management as a type of approach to personnel management  although broader  is a relatively short one. According to Rudiger Pieper (1990), the term human resources was first introduced in 1965 by Raymond Miles. It was conceptualized as emerging from the views of organizational humanists such as Argyris and McGregor, and distinguished both from traditional management and management that focused on human relations approaches. According to Rudiger, what distinguishes all of the human resources approaches from other approaches is that they view people as having the potential to grow and to develop, making them a dynamic resource pool. Therefore:

the major task of human resource management is helping the company's employees to actualize and develop their potential in accordance with the needs of the organization and the interests of the individuals in question rather than restricting personnel management to purely administrative tasks (p. 2).

Another important aspect of the conceptualization of human resource management is the emphasis on people as the most valuable asset of the corporation, or organization. In more traditional approaches, people are seen as a cost of doing busin...

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