Archive for the General Human Resource Management Category

Role of HR to combat Swine Flu

Role of HR to combat Swine Flu

  Its just been a few days since we've started hearing about the outbreak of swine flu, a modern day disease not heard of before and mainly having been confined to pigs. Though it is still limited to certain parts of the world like Mexico, USA, UK while Asia-Pacific being safe as of now or

HRM-a core function Vs HRM-a support function

In the recent past esp. in the last 5 years there has been an increase in the popularity of Human Resource Management as an important part of an organization's functioning. It has been identified as being at par or even more important than technology, finance etc in helping an organization achieve 

Hard HRM Vs Soft HRM

There is no 1 single way of implementing Human Resource Management. This underlying concept allows HRM to be viewed as a particular style of managment which can be measured & defined or even compared against an ideal model bringing us to the Hard & Soft approach of HRM. The Hard approach

HRD Vs HRM

Another thing that i came across while searching for the appropriate UK university for a degree in HR was that there was an option of taking the Human Resource Development -HRD path or Human Resource Management - HRM path.  Although i did have an idea about the basic difference between the two th

MA HRM Vs MSc HRM

Now that i begin this new section on Human Resources it reminds me of the days when i was researching on UK Universities offering HR courses. what was surprising was that some Unis offered an MA degree in HR while others an MSc degree in HR. I was intrigued by the fact how some academicians thoug