Managing Human Resources in Asia-Pacific, 2nd Edition

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Human Resource Management in Thailand

Sununta Siengthai

Human resource management practices in Thailand have gone through a gradual pace of learning and development. Until about the 1980s, most companies still had a so-called “traditional” personnel management (PM), which is perceived as the payroll function. Since the 1990s, the business landscape started to change. With the availability of information and communications technology (ICTs), modern human resource management practices have been more adopted in business firms. Outsourcing practices have also been widely adopted by firms to reduce their cost of operations and have led to changes in HRM business. Such practices require more partnership of HRM with other business functions. In this ...