NAME: DANIELLE NYAMEYE GHANSAH6
INDEX NUMBER: 9019119
STUDENT ID NUMBER: 20689794
PROGRAM: BSC BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MARKETING/ INT. BUSINESS)
COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
LECTURER: EMMANUEL AMPOFOH
QUESTION: Give 20 different definitions of Human Resource Management. Add the names of
those who defined them and the year it was defined. After, give your own definition based in the
definitions you found.
1.Human Resource Management is the recruitment, selection, development, utilization of and
accommodation to human resources by organisations. (French Wendell 1982)
2.Human Resource Management is a distinctive approach to employment management which
seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed
and capable workforce, using an array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques. (Storey ,
1995)
3.Human Resource Management is basically a method of developing potentialities of employees
so that hey feel maximum satisfaction of their work and give their best efforts to the
organization.(Pigors and Myers 1952)
4.Human Resource Management encompasses those activities designed to provide for and
coordinate the human resources of an organization. (Byars and Rue 2006)
5.Human Resource Management is the planning , organizing, directing and controlling of the
procurement development , compensation, integration, maintenance and separation of human
resources to the end that individual , organizational and social objectives are achieved. (Edwin
Flippo 2010)
6.The policies and practices involved in carrying out the people or human resource aspects of a
management position including recruiting, screening, training, rewarding and appraises
comprises Human Resource Management. ( Gary Dessler 2008)
7.It is defined as a strategic approach to manage employment relations which emphasizes that
leveraging people’s capabilities is critical to achieve competitive advantage, this is being
achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programmes and practices.
( Bratton and Gold 2007)
8.Human Resource Management is managing ( planning, organizing, directing and controlling)
the functions of employing , developing, compensating and utilizing human resources , resulting
in the creation and development of human and industrial relations which would shape the future
policies and practices of human resource management , with a view to contribute
proportionately (due to them) to the organizational, individual and social goals. ( Pulapa Subba
Rao 1989)
9.Human Resource Management is a managerial perspective which argues the need to establish
an integrated series of personnel policies to support organizational strategy. ( Buchanan and
Huczynski 2004)
10.1Human Resource Management is an integral but distinctive part of management concerned
with people at work and their relationship with the enterprise , seeking to bring into effective
organization the men and women who staff the enterprise enabling each to make his or her own
best contribution to its success both a s an individual and as a member of a working group. It
seeks to improve relationships within the enterprise that are conducive to with effective work
and human satisfaction . ( U.K Institute of Personnel Management 1946)
11.Human Resource Management is concerned with the people’s dimension in management.(
David Decenzo and Robbins 2012)
12.It is an extension of general management ,that of promoting and stimulating every employee
to make his fullest contribution to the purposes of the business ( C.H Northcoat 1954)
13.Human Resource Management is a series of integrated decisions ,that form the employment
relationship – heir quality contributes to the ability of the organizations and the employees to
achieve their objective ( George Milkorich and J.W Boudreauxs 1987)
14.Human Resource Management involves all the management decisions and practices that
directly affect or influence the people or human resources who work for the organization.( Fisher
2013)
15.Human Resource Management may be defined as the field of management which has to do
with planning , organizing , and controlling the functions of procuring , developing , maintaining
and utilizing a labour force, such that the – (a) objectives for which the company is established
are attained economically an effectively ; (b) objectives of all levels of human resources are
served to the highest possible degree and (c)objectives of society are duly coincided and served .
( Michael Jucius)
16.1Human Resource Management is concerned with the most effective use of people to achieve
organizational and individual goals . It is the strategic and coherent approach to the management
of an organizations most valued assets – the people working there who individually and
collectively contribute to the achievement of its goals.( Invancevich 2008)
17.1Human Resource Management is the conceptual which describe all the transformative
changes in the management of employee relations(Keeney 2001)
18.Human Resource Management is the process of managing human talent to achieve an
organization’s objectives. ( Snell and Bohlander 2010)
19.Human Resource Management concerns the personnel policies and managerial practices and
systems that influence the workforce. (John Bernadin 2007)
20.Human Resource Management refers to the policies, practices, and systems that influence
employee’s behavior, attitudes and performance . (Raymond A Noe 2012)
PERSONAL DEFINITON: in my opinion, Human Resource Management refers to the effective
planning, controlling, recruiting, training and appraisal of human resources within an
organization such that financial, social and productivity goals of the organization are met and
also that there is a cordial relationship between employees.