“Contemporary Trends in Human Resource Acquisition” INTRODUCTION: TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
An organization is nothing without human resources. What is IBM without its employees? A lot of factories, expensive equipment, and some impressive bank balances. Similarly, if you remove the shell U.S. Army, the CIA, the Los Angeles Unified City Schools, or the shell Oil Company, what would you have left? Not much.
The above paragraph is meant to dramatize something that most of us take for granted. When you think about the millions of organizations that provide with goods and services, any one or more of which will probably employ you during your lifetime, how often do you explicitly consider that these organizations depend on people to make them operate? It is only under unusual circumstances, such as when the clerks go on strike at your local supermarket or the teachers walk out in your school district, that you recognize the important role that employees play in making organizations work, but how did these people come to be employees in their organizations? How were they found and selected?
Why do they come to work on a regular
basis? How do they know what to do on their jobs? How management knows if the employees are performing adequately? If they are not, what can be done about it? Will today’s employees be prepared for the work the organization will require of them in ten, twenty, or thirty years?
What Is Human Resource Management: Human resource management (HRM) is concerned with the “people” dimension in management. Since every organization is made up of people, acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating them to high levels of performance, and ensuring that they continue to maintain their commitment to the organization are essential to social action, Getting and keeping good people is critical to the success of organization, whether profit or non profit, public or private. Those organizations that are able to acquire, develop, stimulate, and keep outstanding workers will be both effective (able to achieve their goals) and outstanding and efficient
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