Human resource management - Present and future prospects

AuthorEugenia-Anisoara Tarta
PositionLaw and Economics Faculty, Social Sciences Department Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
Pages82-90
AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs
ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677
No. 4 (2015), pp. 82-90
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
E.A.Tarţa
Eugenia-Anişoara Tarţa
Law and Economics Faculty, Social Sciences Department
Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
*Correspondence: Eugenia-Anişoara Tarţa, Agora University of Oradea,
8 Piaţa Tineretului St., Oradea, Romania
E-mail: jenitarta@yahoo.com
Abstract
Human resource management consists of all the activities geared towards ensuring,
developing, motivating and keeping human resources in an organization in order to achieve
its objectives as efficiently as possible and meet the needs of the employees.
Introduction
The human resources of a company play a major part in its development.
The concept of human resources is not new. Peter Drucker in his book "The Practice of
Management" underpinned the three functions of management: the achievement of economic
performance, the leading of managers and the management of workers and labor.
Human resources can be defined as one of the most important investments an organization
can make whose results become more evident over time. It can be said that human resources
are the organization itself.
HUMAN RESOURCES THE STRATEGIC RESOURCE OF AN ORGANIZATION
The human resources of a company play a major part in its development.
The concept of human resources is not new. Peter Drucker in his book "The Practice of
Management" underpinned the three functions of management: the achievement of economic
performance, the leading of managers and the management of workers and labor.
Human resources can be defined as one of the most important investments an organization
can make whose results become more evident over time. It can be said that human resources
are the organization itself. Given the fact that modern society presents itself as a network of
organizations that appear, develop or disappear, people are a shared resource and also a key
resource, as well as a vital resource to ensure the survival, development and competitive
success of all organizations. Without the effective presence of men who know what, when and
how to do things, it is simply impossible for organizations to achieve their
goals.(http://hosted.regionalnet.org/asper/managementul_resurselor_umane.html)
Thus, organizations exist because people have different physical and intellectual
capabilities as well as the ability to develop the organization. Therefore, organizations involve
people and alsodepend on human effort.
Organizations spend significant amounts of money on their employees, and due to the
costs involved, staff remuneration as well as staff hiring, retention and development, are some
of the most obvious investments in human resources.In conclusion, investing in people has
turned out to be the surest way to ensure the survival of an organization as well as its
competitiveness and future.
The view that the human factor involves some costs and capital expenditures is
opposed to the need highlighted by many human resource professionals to treat the staff as a

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