2. Human Resource Management (HRM)
Although it was commonly accepted that HRM practices had formally started with industrial revolution, the fact is that the roots of HRM lie deep in the past. Just as the employees who shared the tasks that have to be done in modern organizations, humans in ancient societies also, divided work among themselves. So it can be said that division of labor has been practiced since prehistoric times. Tasks were allocated according to skills such as the ability to find food or plants, track animals or cook (Price,
2007) but the major contribution to the development of the HRM systems is provided by industrial revolution in the 1800’s.
The terms of human resource management (HRM) and human resources (HR) have largely replaced instead of personnel management (PM) in the processes of managing people in the organizations. While human resource management is defined as a strategic and coherent approach for the organization’s most valued assets behind on the workers, there is no upon description of it. Personnel department is mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people.