The Role of Human Resources Management in the New Business Designs

Abstract

Traditionally, during many decades, the HR manager, generally has played a minor role within the firms’ management. Among the most prevailing reasons, we find:

• The strong public regulation, in those issues concerning with the social and labour domains in the companies. As a consequence, a legal-oriented perspective has been developed within those firms.

• The constancy and long persistence of technological and organizative systems in corporations, has arisen an administrative oriented HR department. Thus, the domain of HR administration, has undoubtedly been, the basic orientation of this area.

• The low market competence has obviously helped the related administrative orientation.

• The companies’ success key has not been identified in the HR ground, but in the creation of efficient functional structures. Human resources has been observed as minor elements in business success processes.

• The Spanish economy has traditionally suffered a severe public intervention. In the last 40 years we may appreciate this great difficulty in the markets’ opening, as a consequence of a strongly developed shared value system, influenced by the state’s interference, as the regulatory body of economic and social issues.