Strategic Human Resource Management, 2nd Edition

1 Mapping the field of strategic human resource management

DOI: 10.4324/9781003364276-2

Human Resource Management (HRM) has become the predominant term to describe the theory and practices relating to the way people are managed at work. In previous times (and indeed even now in some places), other terms have been used which, in varying degrees, broadly correspond. These other terms include personnel management, personnel administration, people management, employee relations, human capital management, industrial relations, and employment management. Each of these terms reflects the diverse antecedents of HRM, and they also reveal aspects of the different ideologies associated with these approaches. For example, some early forms of personnel ...