The way in which organizations manage their people has always been
pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource
management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable
discipline in the mid-1980s. Earlier campaigns for worker welfare
in the 18th and 19th century were driven by a mix of humanitarian,
religious, philanthropic, and business motives, and sought
workplace amenities such as medical care, housing, and libraries.
At the same time functionaries and departments specialising in HR
processes such as hiring, payroll, and record keeping emerged. This
Very Short Introduction describes how the key players and watershed
moments in labour history shaped the state of human resource
management today. In our era of globalization human resource
management has to contend with a number of new and increasingly
complex factors, such as global sourcing, regional trade agreements
and labour standards, remote working, strategic alliances, and
innovation driven by competition. As traditional sources of
competitive advantage such as access to capital, protected markets,
or proprietary technologies evaporate, firms increasingly look to
human resource management to offer a competitive edge. In the
'laboratory' of university departments or in the gritty and sweaty
reality of the shop floor, there is no single model of human
resource management. Instead human resource management today is as
able to impact everything from small owner-managed shops in Brick
Lane to the high tech behemoths of Silicon Valley. Adrian Wilkinson
shows how human resource management covers the relations between
employees and their employers, and explores the range of HR
practices, processes, and line management activities. ABOUT THE
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