Talk:Human resource management

I am also using this article for a class project and I would like to see more about recent human resource xases and laws that may have gone into effect because of those case.--Sneugene (talk) 01:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Class project
Hi, everyone! I will be working on this article over the next few weeks -- just a heads up. I'm planning on reducing the lead section a bit and doing some sentence-level work. Let me know if you have other ideas. Kschmick (talk) 01:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposal to merge Strategic human resource planning into Human resource management
The Strategic human resource planning article describes "human resource planning", "human resource management", "strategic human resource planning", and "strategic human resource management", using the terms interchangeably. Since there is considerable overlap between these articles, I propose that the Strategic human resource planning article be merged into Human resource management. —  Newslinger  talk   06:37, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Created Recruitment Strategies Page
Hi All,

Great discussion on the page. There was a red link opportunity for a Recruitment Strategies page on the Human resource management page. I have some experience in the field so I took a crack at it. Open to suggestions/ edits if you have time. Greente28 (talk) 19:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

HR Planning is it's own discipline, it shouldn't be merged
Don't merge this page with HR Management, this is a distinct conceptual framework

HR Planning - Often referred to as employment planning, the practice of forecasting # of employee needed and implementing a strategy of growth or retrenchment to satisfy the organisations needs. Thinking at the macro level and making change at the micro level to get the right number of staff. eg. Work out how many people you need working in your factory now, and how often you'll need to hire or promote someone as the company grows.

Building upon HR planning, you have Strategic HR Planning.

Strategic HR Planning - Practice of participating in organisational strategy setting to define the number of employees a company wants. eg. If unemployment levels are high, you hire manual labor staff in your factory stead of buying machinery, because they're more affordable.

... I'm sure that there's a strategic HRM professor out there who can clean this page up.

This page really should just be titled Human Resource Planning with a subtitle for Strategic HR Planning

121.211.160.160 (talk) 04:26, 3 May 2019 (UTC) odawg

I came here looking for manpower planning, with a particular interest in the statistical techniques involved, such as loglinear models. I found myself redirected to a page about HR in general, with nothing on the quantitative discipline at all.

Blaise (talk) 20:37, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion
Merge articles: Human resources into Human resource management; dated: December 2020. Proposer's Rationale: It seems like one of these articles is redundant, as they both talk about human resource management and managers. Discuss here. — Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 18:57, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'd argue that they are two separate, but similar topics. Human resources itself is the general field/concept, while HRM is a specific act of management within HR. ~RAM (talk) 13:43, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Does that mean one can work in human resources without being a human resources manager?— Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 17:35, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , If you are not familiar with the subject matter, you probably shouldn't be suggesting mergers..? I'd say so, they are really two separate things, see the above merger suggestion for HR Planning. ~RAM (talk) 17:47, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * My problem is that by reading the articles, I couldn't understand the difference between the topics. This is always a problem. I'd say if you are reading the article, you're probably not already an HR manager because you would probably already understand the topic.— Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 18:13, 28 December 2020 (UTC)


 * While I agree that Human resources is poorly written, I oppose the merge. That article really ought to explain not only how HR are, but what HR actually in an organization. It's one thing to recruit manpower etc. and an entirely different question how manpower contributes to the activities of an organization. Also, Human resources has the larger scope, and it's a WP:VITAL article. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 11:42, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it might be best to move the first 3 section of Human resources to Human resource management, leaving the rest of the article to focus on the topic of Human resources. That is, move HR responsibilities, Activities and History to Human resource management as all of those sections focus on management rather than the primary topic of the page they're currently on. Klbrain (talk) 08:09, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the lack of consensus for any particular action, and active changes on these articles at a rate much faster than this discussion is proceeding. Klbrain (talk) 09:58, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

I am using this article for a class assignment and evaluating it!
Caitlincaterinichia (talk) 17:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Human resources is a valuable career field and takes up space in most companies or organizations that exist. When we think of a HR Department, we usually affiliate these departments who are responsible for managing aspects of the business which relate to the employees. These individuals help establish a foundation where things within a company and its employees can flow accordingly, and they often contain the backbone to most organizations. I find this article of interest because it helps create the bigger picture of human resources management and how this came to be, as I also seek a career in this field. I found this article to be very helpful for a multitude of reasons. The history of the article seems very up to date compared to when certain aspect of HR came into place. We see how this article also offers a vast amount of information including career paths which seems to have very current information added especially with the rise in virtual opportunities offered within the career. There was not many images or graphs included in this specific article, this being because the information given did not necessarily need to be backed with images but this is also a very helpful add when breaking down statistics involved in the HR field and how this correlates to certain opportunities offered.Caitlincaterinichia (talk) 17:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I thought this article had a great flow and was organized clearly in order to comprehend the information provided. I enjoyed seeing the history of the HR world but also love how authors included and more current view of this and did not linger too much on the history. Though important (history), it is much more educating when we can evaluate the current state of any topic and I believe this article did that. Overall, I was very pleased with the information given and found this article very helpful when understanding the many aspect involved in human resource management.Caitlincaterinichia (talk) 17:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)