Human Resource Management is not just a new label for old-fashioned personnel practices. While the classic personnel department of the 1970s dealt with personnel issues as a separate and purely administrative function, Human Resource Management aims at a close integration of HR policies with business strategy and other internal and external factors which affect the firm (institutional environment, production technology, etc). This is what has been often termed as the problem of external integration. On …
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