This presentation will take you through the journey of evolution of Human Resource Management (HRM). Proper chronological order of events has been followed which will give you a clear idea of the developments and the reason why these developments took place. American Labor History and effect of World War has been discussed in detail as these events had a considerable share in the evolution of HRM.

1. EVOLUTION OF HRM
By- Asim Sagheer

2. INDEX
 Time Line of Evolution
 American Labor History
 Labor Unrest & World War
 Civil Rights Movement & Today

3. TIMELINE OF EVOLUTION
American Labor History Labor Unrest & World
War
Civil Rights movement &
Today
Colonial period to early
1900’s
Early 1900’s to post war
years of 1950’s
Civil Rights movement of
1960’s till today

4. AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY
 Labor Disputes in America. 1636 fishermen went on strike near
Maine. 1677 Carmen went on strike at New York City.
 Independence of United States 4th July 1776.
 Large population of crafts men, artists, skilled labors and workers
migrated to urban areas by 1815.
 Capital controllers invested more on labor intensive enterprise.
 From 1800 to 1850 there were 23 cases of criminal conspiracy in
some states. With central question as to weather workmen in
combination could would be permitted to use their collective
bargaining power to obtain benefits, increased wages, decreased
hours or improved conditions.
 But prior to 1842 U.S. was under English Law and peaceable
combinations of workmen to raise wages, shorten working hours
etc. was treated as illegal.

5. But soon there was formation of various labor unions…
 National Labor Union 1866.
 Knights of St. Crispin 1867.
 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 1870.
 Knights of Labor 1880.
 American Federation of Labor 1900.

6. LABOR UNREST AND WORLD WAR
 The history of personnel management begins around the end of 19th
century, when welfare officers came into being.
 They were women and concerned with the protection of women and
girls.
 There creation was a reaction to the harshness of industrial conditions ,
coupled with the pressures arising from the extension of the franchise,
the influence of the trade unions and the labor movement.
 First World War broke out.

7. FIRST WORLD WAR
 The first world war accelerated the change in
development of personnel management, with
women being recruited in large numbers to fill the
gaps left by men going to fight, which on turn meant
reaching agreement with trade unions about
‘dilution’- accepting unskilled women into
craftsmen's job and changing manning levels.

8. 1920’S
 Job’s with titles of ‘labor manager’ or
‘employment manager’ came into being in
the engineering industry where there were
large scale factories, to handle absence,
recruitment, dismissal and queries aver
bonuses and so on.
 Employer’s federations, particularly in
engineering and shipbuilding, negotiated
national pay rates with the unions, but there
were local and district variations.

9. 1930’S
 During the 1930s, with the economy
beginning to pick up, big corporations in
these newer sectors saw value in improving
employee benefits as a way of recruiting,
retaining and motivating employees.
 But older industries such as textiles, mining
and shipbuilding which were hit by the
worldwide recession did not adopt new
techniques, seeing no need to do so
because they had no difficulty in recruiting
labor.

10. SECOND WORLD WAR
 The Second World War brought about welfare
and personnel work on a full-time basis at all
establishments producing war materials
because an expanded Ministry of Labor and
National Service insisted on it, just as the
Government had insisted on welfare workers in
munitions factories in the previous conflict.
 The government saw specialist personnel
management as part of the drive for greater
efficiency and the number of people in the
personnel function grew substantially.

11.  By 1945, employment management and
welfare work had become integrated under
the broad term ‘personnel management’.
 Experience of the war had shown that output
and productivity could be influenced by
employment policies.

12. CIVIL WAR AND TODAY
 Mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in
the southern United States.
 In the 1960s and 70s employment started to develop significantly.
 At the same time personnel techniques developed using theories from
the social sciences about motivation and organizational behavior;
selection testing became more widely used, and management training
expanded.
 Around the mid-80s, the term ‘human resource management’ arrived
from the USA.
 The term ‘human resources’ is an interesting one: it seemed to suggest
that employees were an asset or resource-like machines, but at the
same time HR also appeared to emphasize employee commitment and
motivation.

13. THEORIES OF TODAY

14. THANK YOU.
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