Evolution of Human resource Management

Modern Day Human Resource Management and its development evolved from far beyond the history from centuries to centuries with the introduction of Industrial system to the world.
Pre – Industrial Era-Beginning of the Employer and Employee relationship. The prevailed system was that the land owners had labors who work for them (The lands were given by the King for their military service done to the country) and the cultivation was given by them to the land owners and whatever is remaining can be taken by them. The system of Feudalism was brought to an end.
Industrial Revolution- With the emergence of new factories people started to work for a pay and the concept of Management arose in these factories. Many laborers worked in these factories it became difficult to control them. Due to this more strict rules and regulations were imparted on the workers and labor exploitation began.

Scientific System of Management- The credit of Introducing the Scientific Management goes to Fredrick Taylor, also known as the “Father of Scientific Management”. He studied the Job demands and came to a conclusion that there should be one best way to do a particular job in minimum time.
The Industrial Welfare Movement-Due to this Labor exploitation people organized themselves to win their rights and made the owners to know that they are humans and cannot work in the way they wanted. So the business organization began to work for the welfare of the workers.

Early Industrial Psychology- The owners began to think that workers need their minds set freely inorder to work effectively and cannot be treated as machines and human play an important role towards the development of a business.

The Human Relations Movement- The workers organized themselves to convene that they need good working conditions to carry out their work and good interrelationships.

The Labor Movement – The people fought for their rights at the work place and finally achieved what they wanted. The Management became flexible towards the workers.

Personal Management- Something called personal management emerged which made to be known that human need to be managed tactfully to get maximum from them but not just with strict rules and regulations.

Human Resource Management and Development of HRM- The Personal Management gradually changed into Human Resource Management where people (employees) were to be treated as a resource that can be developed.