Edgar H. Schein “The Changing Role of the Human Resource Manager” Article Summary

Article illustrates that the role of the HR professional is changing. In the past, HR managers were often viewed as the systematizing, policing arm of executive management. Their role was more nearly aligned with personnel and administration functions that were viewed by the organization as paperwork (Edgar, pp: 26).

When you address that the initial HR function, in numerous companies, arrives out of the administration or finance department because hiring employees, giving employees, and dealing with benefits were the organization's first HR needs, this is not surprising. In this ...