Shifting paradigms in people management

Jayashree Sadri

Research Scholar at JJT University, Management Consultant based in the Tricity of Panchkula-Chandigarh-Mohali and Visiting Professor of H R and Business Ethics at a number of B Schools

Email: jayashree_sadri@yahoo.co.in

Accepted 03 April, 2013

Abstract

During the last two decades when the author taught Human Resources Management at the postgraduate level a paradigm change was noticed in the published literature on the subject as well as in the focus of academic inquiry. The basic paradigm has shifted over the years when this specialisation called HRM developed. However, seldom is the student exposed to the development of this specialisation in socio-historical perspective. This is just what has been attempted in this paper. It traces the genesis of HR from the industrial revolution up until the post WTO regime. Having done that it indicates the trend this specialisation is likely to take in the immediate future. As such this paper is directed to professionals and scholars in the field of human resources management and lays the foundation for further discourse on behavioural and attitudinal relationships between Man and Organisation.

Keywords: Shifting, Paradigms, Management.