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Personnel Management
In its earlier incarnation, HRM was called “personnel management.” It has been used dually to refer to the activity of personnel management and also to the department in the organization which deals in this activity, though the activity perforce is broader than and extends beyond the department to many other departments in the organization. It could be seen as relevant wherever there are people working in the organization.
Karen Legge (2005) has distinguished four different types of personnel management, where the differences range from the development and fulfillment of employees to achieving organizational goals. Another continuum is between a unitarist view where the organization and its employees are united in their goals and means of achieving them, through a pluralist view that there are differences...
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Green, M. (2013). Human Resource Management. In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_138
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