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PHASES OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

There are 4 phases of Human Resource

Management

First Phase: Administration - from 1940's to

1970's focussing on labor welfare

& partly administration.originally calledWelfare Secretary

Second Phase: Personnel - 1970's to late

1980's focussing on personnel management

i.e. punctuality, leaves payroll etc.

Third Phase: Human Resources - Early

1990's till present. In this era technical

revolution replaced manual workers by

knowledge workers. Previously labor wastreated as a "cost". But now labor is a

"resource". When personnel were treated as

a cost, they were increased when production

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increased and were released when

production decreased. But treating labor as a

resource, one maximizes yield from theresource.

Fourth Phase: Talent Management Now in

future the main challenge of an HR Manager

would be identifying and retaining thecreative people.