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Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who comprise the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations. Human resources is also the name of the function within an organization charged with the overall responsibility for implementing strategies and policies relating to the management of individuals (i.e. the human resources). This function title is often abbreviated to the initials 'HR'.

Human resources is a relatively modern management term, coined in the 1960s.[citation needed] The origins of the function arose in organizations that introduced 'welfare management' practices and also in those that adopted the principles of 'scientific management'. From these terms emerged a largely administrative management activity, co-ordinating a range of worker related processes and becoming known, in time as the 'personnel function'. Human resources progressively became the more usual name for this function, in the first instance in the United States as well as multinational corporations, reflecting the adoption of a more quantitative as well as strategic approach to workforce management, demanded by corporate management and the greater competitiveness for limited and highly skilled workers.

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Personally, I hate the term but it is in such common use that I cannot totally avoid it.



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  People are people - not things!
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 17 May 2003

  Knowledge management: Is HR in the know?
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 10 June 2007

  Call people - PEOPLE - not capital!
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 12 May 2010

  Don't use standardized appraisal forms
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 24 May 2011

  We are not human resources or human capital. We are human beings.
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 May 2012

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  Dave Ulrich Human Resource Management Educator & Consultant

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