Human resource management as a new label for the personnel function and as a descriptive term for labor policies was developed in the United States in the early 1980s.
The work of Harvard academics was especially influential, as seen in the book by Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul Lawrence, D. Quinn Mills, and Richard Walton. The usage of the term spread rapidly in the Anglo-American world and beyond.
Human Resource Management as a Distinctive Approach to Labor Management
Leaving aside the problem of human resource management as the function, the ...