HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SQUARE PHARMACEUTICALS
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SQUARE PHARMACEUTICALS
Introduction
1. Human Resource Management (HRM) involves all management decisions and practices that directly affect or influence the people, or human resources, who work for the organization.
In recent years increased attention has been devoted to how organizations manage human resource. This increased attention comes from the realizations that an organization’s employees enable organizations to achieve its goals, and the management of this human resource is critical to an organization’s success. The presence of human being is no new invention but identifying them as resource in a more formal way has been made in recent days. The history of HRM can be characterized as moving through four broad phases as craft system, scientific management system, the human resource relation approach, and the current organizational science such as human resource approach.
2. The training in craft skills was organized to maintain an educate supply of craft workers and started in Egypt and Babylon from the earliest times. By the 13th century craft training become popular in Western Europe. Craft guilds supervised quality and methods of production and regulated conditions of employment for each occupation. The basis of scientific management is that there is one best way to do a job. The best way will be the most efficient and therefore the fastest and least expensive. The founder of this new field of scientific management was an American mechanical engineer, Fredrick W. Taylor (1856 – 1915). The discovery of the Hawthorne, an western electric’s plant in Chicago effect led to further research on the social factors associated with work. Results of this studies led to the human relations movement with its emphasis on the fact that employees need to be understood in order to be satisfied and productive. Finally the organizational science approach focuses more on the total organization and less on just the
Introduction
1. Human Resource Management (HRM) involves all management decisions and practices that directly affect or influence the people, or human resources, who work for the organization.
In recent years increased attention has been devoted to how organizations manage human resource. This increased attention comes from the realizations that an organization’s employees enable organizations to achieve its goals, and the management of this human resource is critical to an organization’s success. The presence of human being is no new invention but identifying them as resource in a more formal way has been made in recent days. The history of HRM can be characterized as moving through four broad phases as craft system, scientific management system, the human resource relation approach, and the current organizational science such as human resource approach.
2. The training in craft skills was organized to maintain an educate supply of craft workers and started in Egypt and Babylon from the earliest times. By the 13th century craft training become popular in Western Europe. Craft guilds supervised quality and methods of production and regulated conditions of employment for each occupation. The basis of scientific management is that there is one best way to do a job. The best way will be the most efficient and therefore the fastest and least expensive. The founder of this new field of scientific management was an American mechanical engineer, Fredrick W. Taylor (1856 – 1915). The discovery of the Hawthorne, an western electric’s plant in Chicago effect led to further research on the social factors associated with work. Results of this studies led to the human relations movement with its emphasis on the fact that employees need to be understood in order to be satisfied and productive. Finally the organizational science approach focuses more on the total organization and less on just the