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Human Resource Management is a field of study which has emerged out of the
old concept of Personnel Management. From the bureaucratic era of Wage
Administration in late 1900’s to trade unionism and subsequently, the
Personnel Management concept and then finally to Human Resource
Management, this field of study has grown and expanded in mammoth
proportion. In the current times, the HR function is still evolving into a complete
science in itself, with strong influence of Psychology, more so as organizations
are increasingly dependent upon skilled staff resource to work at the optimum
level, along with the high performance expectations. The reason why Human
Resource Management has become a Psychology linked science can be
attributed to the following factors:
a. Growth in the Service Sector: In countries like United States and India,
the growth of service sector has been phenomenal and it has overtaken the
manufacturing sector in giving employment. Services, including IT/IT
Enabled services/Telecom/Retail etc depend upon the high-calibre human
resources, that too in fairly large numbers. To groom them and to motivate
them to take up high-skilled jobs, the in-depth study of Human Psychology
is required.
Besides Psychology, Human Resource profession has to take inputs from the
following disciplines, to make it a complete science in itself