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Human Resource Management :

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT :
A CENTRAL BUSINESS CONCERN

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CONTENT

1 BACKGROUND
2 THE RISE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS
3 RESPONSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION
4 HR MANAGERS AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
5 THE FUTURE OF HRM

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OBJECTIVE: How can HR Practitioners position themselves to add value to the organization.

1 BACKGROUND
The increasingly important role of Human Resource Management (HRM) is reflected in the transformation of the personnel management function from one of concentrating on employee welfare to one of managing people in a way which matches organizational and individual goals. In short, HRM has become a central business concern.

Due to time constraints this afternoon, it is not possible to include any views on the changing focus of industrial relations which is an integral part of HRM and I trust that this will not detract from the content of this paper.

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Before we discuss HRM, it is necessary to contextualise the traditional personnel function. Peter Drucker, as early as 1961 wrote that the constant worry of all personnel administrators is their inability to prove that they are making a contribution to the enterprise. They are also, he said, preoccupied with the search for a 'gimmick' that will impress their management associates. And he argued, they have a persistent complaint – “we lack status”.
Some wit once said that 'personnel management' is all those things that do not deal with the work of people and that are not management."
So what has changed?

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2 THE RISE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS
The rise of knowledge workers! The blue collar worker which had previously dominated the middle of the century has not disappeared into oblivion because workers have merely evolved into another class – that of being knowledge workers. The term knowledge worker was coined by Peter Drucker in his book “Landmarks of Tomorrow” way back in 1959. He stressed back then that the knowledge worker...