Topic 2: Introduction to Human Resource Management

Question 1

Give short A Historical Perspective on HRM?

Answer 1

• Pre-industrialization: division of labor
• Industrial Revolution + Personnel Management
• modern factories/organizations as we know them today
• managing employment relations, and preventing disputes and unionization.
• Taylor’s Scientific Management (1890-1940), Fayol/Weber’s Administrative Principles (1900-1950), Gilbreth’s Time & Motion Studies

•Labor Relations/Human Relations movement

• Seeing workers in less mechanistic ways, acknowledging the social structure of work, and examining ways to increase productivity and satisfaction.
• Hawthorne Studies (1924) and Roethlisberger & Dickson’s (1939) work

•WWII + I/O Psychology
- Advent of intelligence testing to match individuals to jobs, and finding
systematic ways of selection and assessment.