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Origins and changes in HRM theories and practices have been driven by broader
changes in social, economic, political and institutional context. HRM arose in
the 1980s in North America with an incentive to restore the competitiveness of
American industry (Millmore et al. 2007). It was soon adopted with quite an
Area
External environment
Organisational
structures and
processes
Performance
management and
measurement systems
Role of management
and managers
Employees and
organisational culture
Elements in NPM
- Driven by external pressure, changing
environment and neoliberal ideas
- Market orientation, use of competition
in the provision of public services
- Stakeholder (incl. customer)
orientation
- Focus on organisational efficiency,
effectiveness and productivity
- Emphasis on cost-reduction,
outsourcing and privatisation
- Decentralisation, de-bureaucratisation,
agencification, flexibility of structures
- Devolution of responsibility
- Emphasis from input and process to
output and outcome
- Performance-driven, productivity and
efficiency enhancing measures
- Systematic assessment of performance
through targets, standards, indicators,
measurement and control systems
- Emphasis on letting the managers
manage, managerial discretion and
accountability
- Primacy of management function
- Empowerment of employees,
emphasis on business-like attitudes of
public servants
- Focus on leadership
Elements in HRM
- Driven by external pressure, changing
environment and neoliberal ideas
- Market and customer orientation
- Individualist, flexible and competitive
notion of employment relationship
- Focus on human resource advantage,
consequently HRM integrated to
organisational strategy
- Organisational flexibility
- Decentralisation, flat structures
- Devolution of responsibility for HR
- Emphasis on the contribution of
employees to the bottom line,
productivity and commitment
enhancing measures
- Systematic assessment of performance
- HRM largely integrated into line
management
- Emphasis on the role of top
management and its strategic
partnership with HR professionals
- Importance of building employee
trust, common values and commitment
to job and organisation
- Focus on leadership
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