Business Articles: Human Resource
"The most important thing I do is hire bright people."
Bill Gates
Human resource management was, at one time, the poor cousin to all the
other business functions like marketing and finance, etc.
No longer.
Now managing "human capital" is at
center focus of the fastest moving industries in the business world. Because firms are
different from each other in many respects--such as size, location, technology, products
or services, and corporate culture the job of the HRM executive is a growing challenge
made even more demanding by trying to align human assets with business need of the future.
One of the sites
(Nottingham
Business School) which offers student researchers a great number of resources
is: www.nbs.ntu.ac.uk/depts/hrm/hrm_link.htm.
Consider what MIT economists Lester Thurow believes will be the seven key
industries of the next few decades - microelectronics, biotechnology, the new materials
industries, civilian aviation, telecommunications, robots plus machine tools and computers
plus software. All are brainpower industries.
Fortunately, there is a lot of work going on in this important
area, and the Society for Human Resources Management at: <www.shrm.org > is one
of the leaders. They publish a number of journals which can be accessed at your
library or online. The cost for student membership is (at this time) approximately
$35, which includes the HR Magazine (monthly), HR News and SHRM Online. The web site
does provide some interesting articles and article summaries for free that most students
would find very interesting (e.g. HR Magazine : "A Death in the Family") and
quite useful for research projects.
From the international area, students should take a look at the: International Association for Human
Resource Information Management (IHRIM) - http://www.ihrim.org -.
According to its mission statement, IHRIM is dedicated to being the leading global source
of knowledge for the application of Human Resource information and technology to improve
organizational effectiveness. It has two excellent sources of information:
IHRIM.Link and IHRIM Journal (a quarterly publication which focuses on multinational
and regional differences around the world and particularly investigates controversial
issues. Student membership dues are $50 per year.
A second HRM source offering information and portals from
the UN and other major industrial countries can be found at: www.hrmguide.net
Other sources:
Take a look at the Far Eastern Economic Review < www.feer.com > which provides many articles for free
and Asia Pacific Management Forum <www.apmforum.com > which provides a comprehensive view of the
Asian Human Resource Management experience with fulltext articles and an "Article of
the Month" for free.
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