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Final Learning Module 1 Ong
Final Learning Module 1 Ong
Objectives:
1.2. Pre-Test
Reflect and answer the following:
1. What is Human Resource Management?
2. In your perception, how did Human Resource Management came to existence?
3. Why is Human Resource Management Important?
4. Which is more efficient, Traditional Human Resource Management or Electronic Human
Resource Management? Justify your answer.
Unlocking Concepts
An important event in industrial revolution was growth of Labour Union (1790) – The
works working in the industries or factories were subjected to long working hours and very
less wages. With growing unrest, workers across the world started protest and this led to the
establishment of Labour unions.
To deal with labor issues at one end and management at the other Personnel Management
department had to be capable of politics and diplomacy, thus the industrial relation
department emerged.
1. Worker’s training
2. Maintaining wage uniformity
3. Focus on attaining better productivity.
Hawthorne studies, conducted by Elton Mayo & Fritz Roethlisberger (1927 to 1940). –
Observations and findings of Hawthrone experiment shifted the focus of Human resource
from increasing worker’s productivity to increasing worker’s efficiency through greater work
satisfaction.
Douglas McGregor Theory X and Theory Y (1960) and Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of
needs (1954) – These studies and observations led to the transition from the administrative
and passive Personnel Management approach to a more dynamic Human Resource
Management approach which considered workers as a valuable resource in the following:
Illustrations
1.6. Conclusion
Human Resource Management is a management of organizing Human Capital in
engaging labor in the workplace as well as enhancing their full potential and skills and
expediting labor forces efficiencies. Before, labor is just working for the sake of working
ignoring humanistic concerns. Gradually, human rights and labor advocacy upraises resulting
individuals studying various Human Resource efficiencies and strategies which lead to this
the E-HRM. At the end of the day, this is the reason why benefits and privileges as well as
job security existed because of these HRM procedures.
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YouTube Videos
GreggU (2018, October 2). HR Basics: Human Resource Management. Retrieved From:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2HFusWQIeE