History of HRM
Organizations have many operational functions. HRD is one of
the functions that is engaging with the tasks of an organization. In early 70 s
there was no division called as Human Resource Department or Division. By that
time there was only a division called "Personnel" engaged with the
labor related in the organization.
Personnel Management was introduced by the end of 19th
century. At that time, this was focused on the welfare of labors in the
organizations. According to the tasks they have done, the officers at Personnel
Department was called as "Welfare Officers". The special thing was,
the employee welfare tasks were done by women at that time.
During the period of 1914-1939, many organizations has
showed a quick growth and quick changes in needs and wants of the operations.
Therefore the tasks done by women shifted to the men's, because of the
complexity of tasks. These officers has called as "Labor managers" at
that time.
After Second World War, during the period 1945 - 1979, this
has grown up and changed to "Personnel Management", and Personnel
Management was focus basically on employee administration and the legislation.
At late 70 s the economic of the world changed gradually and
organizations started to consider labors work as an important resource. At the
decade of 80 the concept of "Human Resource Management" was started
and then it has shown growth gradually in decade of 1990. Finally the tasks and
operations of personnel management was shifted to the Human Resource Management
and it is functioning now in broad way in the organizations than Personnel
Management.
Definition: HRM is a process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each one are met. It tries to secure the best from people by winning their wholehearted cooperation.
"It is a art of procuring, developing and maintaining competent workforce to achieve the goals of an organization in an effective and efficient manner".
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an
organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing
direction for the people who work in the organization. HRM can also be
performed by line managers.
HRM is the organizational function that deals with issues
related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management,
organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation,
communication, administration, and training.
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