Discuss this statement with reference to at least two aspects of HRM, ensuring that you also make reference to issues of power and authority in the employment relationship.
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000116828 "Personnel management is concerned with assisting those who run work organisations to meet their purposes through the obtaining of the work efforts of human beings, the exploitation of those efforts and the dispensing with of those efforts when they are no longer required. Concern may be shown with human welfare, justice or satisfactions but only insofar as this is necessary for controlling interests to be met and, then, always at least cost" (Watson 1986, 176) Discuss this statement with reference to at least two aspects of HRM, ensuring that you also make reference to issues of power and authority in the employment relationship. Personnel Management originated in 1986, with employers growing concerns over large numbers in the work force, and therefore less personal contact with their employees. 'Rowntree established a welfare department and employed a Miss Wood, a former teacher, to oversee it. She was...


