Nearing the 21st century, advances in transportation and communications greatly facilitated workforce
mobility and collaboration. Corporations began viewing employees as assets rather than as cogs in a
machine. "Human resources management", consequently, became the dominant term for the function—
the ASPA even changing its name to SHRM in 1998.[9] "Human capital management" is sometimes used
synonymously with HR, although human capital typically refers to a more narrow view of human