HR Roles and Responsibilities

Definition
Human Resources Management's (HRM) origins came from the USA in the 1950's and gained a wide recognition in the beginning of the 1980s. HRM evolved due to pressures in product markets in USA during the recession of 1980-82 and because of the need to create a work situation free of conflict in which both employees and employer worked towards the same goal. A few of the first companies to implement HRM in their management system were HP and IBM who consequently did not have trade unions practices implemented into their companies (Guest, 1989).
Storey (1995) describes HRM as "a dis…