Question 1) What is Human Resource management and how has it developed?

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Human Resource Management (HRM) emerged onto the British managerial scene in the late 1980s (Storey 1995) as a direct response to new unseen levels of competition which had left other management techniques antiquated. In a fairly short period of time there were many signs that it had taken hold and contributions from American practitioners had been eagerly awaited in the United Kingdom. It is not surprising when considered that a strand of HRM known as resource-based …

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…little as possible, exploited and developed solely to achieve the organisations objectives. In order to achieve the models goals HRM policy must be trying to achieve the following criteria. They must select the most appropriate people to meet the firms needs, all performance must be directed at achieving the firms needs, workers are appraised in order for appropriate rewards to be made, the worker must be developed in order to achieve the firms changing objectives.