13.7.3 Human resource management
The theoretical approaches discussed in this chapter have contributions to make in the
area of human resource management (HRM). It is generally accepted that HRM as a discipline developed out of personnel management and industrial relations in the 1980s in the USA and spread to the UK. Personnel management was concerned with finding the right person for the job at the right time, while HRM takes the employment relationship and its management right into the heart of the organisation’s corporate objectives