Literature Review On Human Resource Management

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The strife among the companies is actually the strife of human resources, as the market reveals. The past history has witnessed the transformation of employee becoming the highly priced capital in the company and this has been the birth to the concept of Human Resource Management (HR). These days, business world is undergoing a significant change .The traditional Human Resource style fails to draw level with such rapid changes. The traditional style mainly focuses on encouraging personnel activities of a company. It is an unassertive, submissive execution, without self-motivated participation into strategic issue to envisage the challenges of tomorrow. Therefore, there comes a demand for the new Human Resource that should understand the business…show more content…
The literature apportions to theoretical reasoning or empirical data is considered. The theoretical literature includes the related theories explored from literatures, including books and peer-review papers. The empiric literature collects academic documentation from published papers of case study and qualitative/ quantitative data analysis. Concept of HR function There are two axles to understand the HR function: one axle is a Philosophical axle, which decode the function into its actors and corresponding activities, the other axis is a Time axle where the difference between the traditional (past) and current (present and future) interpretations of the HR function is considered. Thus, this paper focuses on theoretical discussion of HR function and HRIT relationship. Definition of HR function According to Valverde et al. (2006), HR function is “all managerial actions carried out at any level regarding the organization of work and the entry, development and exit of people in the organization so that their competencies are used at their best in order to achieve corporate objectives”. It incorporates the actors, as well as their correspondent responsibilities and tasks. The actors of HR…show more content…
Whereas the main focus still is on daily administration, but management activities get broaden which is reflected through HR professional’s involvement into strategic business issue. This moment still took HRM function restricted to HR department only, but it spread its main activities onto three levels. The lowest level was the operational level, which administer the daily personnel issue of the organization. The second was the managerial level which was mainly concerned with how to administer the capable workforce by acquisition, retention and
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