What is Human Resource Management or H.R.M?

Human Resource Management or H.R.M. was originally known as Personnel or People Management. H.R.M. involves the productive use of people in achieving Organizational Goals and the satisfaction of Individual Employee Needs. In other words, HRM is the management of human resources by Attracting, Developing, Utilizing, and Retaining the human resources to achieve the organizational goals.  

In short,

HRM is all about managing people.  

Henry Ford

“You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.”

Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
American Industrialist, Business Magnate,
Founder of Ford Motor Company

Definitions from Authors

Human resource management is the strategic and integrated approach taken by an organization to manage its most valued assets, namely its People. It is the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policies relating to them and developing strategies to retain them.

Michael Armstrong

(September 13, 1928-    ),

British author of HRM books.

Ex-Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Best Selling Books:  

Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice and Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management

“Human Resource Management can be defined as ―a strategic approach to acquiring, developing, managing, motivating and gaining the commitment of the organization‘s key resource – the people who work in and for it.”

Dale Yoder

( February 4, 1901 - May 8, 1990)

American Author

Best Selling Books: Personnel Management and Industrial Relations

“The management of human resource is viewed as a system in which participants seek to attain both individual and group goals.”

Edwin B. Flippo

(1925-   )

Author

Professor of Management, University of Arizona

Best Selling Books: Principles of Personnel Management, 

“HRM is the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance and reproduction of human resources to the end that individual organizational and societal objectives are accomplished”

According to, 

John M. Ivancevich and William F. Glueck

Source: Foundations of Personnel/Human Research Management

William F. Glueck

( 1934-1980)

Author

Professor of Management at the University of Georgia

“HRM is concerned with the most effective use of people to achieve organizational and individual goals. It is the way of managing people at work so that they give their best to the organization”. 

John M. Ivancevich 

(August 16, 1939-October 26, 2009)

Author

Dean at the University of Houston's College of Business and Administration.

Gary Dessler 

(1942 -  )

Author

Professor of Business at Florida International University's College of Business Administration

“Human Resource Management is the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and attending to their labour relations, health, safety and fairness concerns.”

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