Human Resource Management in the New Global Order

Human Resources Management is the management of an organization's employees. This includes employment and arbitration in accord with the law, and with a company's directives. But these traditional expressions are becoming less common for the theoretical discipline. Sometimes even employee and industrial relations are confusingly listed as synonyms, although these normally refer to the relationship between management and workers and the behavior of workers in companies. The theoretical discipline is based primarily on the assumption that employees are individuals with varying goals and needs, and as such should not be thought of as basic business resources, such as trucks and filing cabinets. Human Resource Management is seen by practitioners in the field as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach.