Human Resource Management

Paper Summary:

The paper examines two works that address how human resource management is currently undergoing numerous changes in the wake of economic shifts, demographic and sociological transformation and advances in technology. The paper summarizes and evaluates "Douglas McGregor Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise" by Heil, Bennis and Stephens, and "Coping With Difficult People" by Bramson. The paper analyzes how these works could influence a career in human resource management.

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Abstract
Douglas McGregor Revisted: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise
Evaluation of McGregor Revisited
Influences on Personal Views
Coping With Difficult People
Evaluation
Influences on Personal Views

From the Paper:

"Forty years ago, the late Douglas McGregor, a professor at MIT, suggested that a corporation is more than a simple machine, and workers are more that just "cogwheels" in that machine. In this book, authors Gary Heil, Warren Bennis and Deborah Stevens revisit McGregor's ideas, placing them in the context of today's high-tech, global workplace. In the opening of the work, the authors discuss exactly why McGregor's ideas and philosophies are still relevant. These ideas are analyzed in relationship to workplace issues such as employee performance, cooperation, motivation, commitment and the ability to work together in a team setting, as well as the current shift from an industrial to an information-based economy, job satisfaction and managerial paternalism."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bramson, R. (1981). Coping With Difficult People. New York: Doubleday.
• Heil, G. (2000). Douglas McGregor Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise New York: John Wiley & Sons.

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