human resources
, history Business partner model
Business partner model by Dave Ulrich (1990)
Leadersh
• concept vs. process vs. behaviour
Industrial betterment 1850-1900 strategic partners • leader vs. manager
• Robert Owen: unofficial father of HR, understood health/ + change agent (drive and manage change)
working hours + administrative expert (make sure manage = handle things
• Young Men’s Christian Association: take care of worker’s infrastructure works) lead = how to go places
sickness/ drunkenness + employee champion (develop systems, → efficiency vs. effectiveness (managers d
• 1878: first law to reduce working hours for women and represent workers,…)
children = business partner (influence decisions, take
• 1884: German company implemented 8h/ day shifts responsibility,…)
Frederick Winslow Taylor 1911
• Official father of HR
• time studies, standardisation, supervision, job
descriptions,… → more productivity, work planning, meet
goals,…
Human Relations Movement 1925-1955
• Hawthorne Experiments in 30s: change of environmental new model in 2000s
conditions through variations of working conditions →
importance of human leadership, promotion of self-esteem
HR function
Systems Rationalism 1955-1980
• 70s: term HR founded
Re-engineering and global HR 1990-now Organisation of HR function in global organisation
• new challenges/ terminology • HR functional organisation:
• often criticised as too soft/ expensive/ strategic development, relations, make
definition
sure expertise is available,
staffing, planning,… in
= practices of managing human side of organisations • HR shared services: help
in international context people through service strat
• planning, staffing, labor relations, development, law, platforms (slack,…), support, strate
change,… data management,… • mult
• responsible line managers, staff professionals,… • Embedded HR: business do”)