Based on numerous comments about the inadequacies and
limits of present-day HRM, in particular its alignment with
strategic management, which tends to commodify humans to
being in the sole service of maximizing shareholders’ assets,
we proposed that the real nature of human “resources” must
be urgently reconceptualized. It appears that human beings
are not like other resources or assets of the organization. In
this sense, the notion of the “person” provides us with an
important and complex conception of the organizational
actors, a conception, which can serve as the foundations of
renewed practices. It may also point out to new directions in
helping emancipate human beings through a more humanistic
management. In that sense, persons management may
also be seen as an ideal type in the Weberian sense. Even if it
did not fully exist in reality, it serves as a guide to improve
our practices.