This document outlines the learning objectives and content for a course on human resource management (HRM). It discusses the development of HRM from welfare approaches to personnel administration to the modern concept. Key points include:
1. The origins of HRM in industrial welfare work in the 1890s and the emergence of scientific management and personnel administration.
2. The rise of HRM as a term and field of study in the 1980s, replacing personnel management.
3. The modern view of HRM as more strategic and focused on the business, compared to the old personnel function.
4. Alternative approaches to HRM and the changing role of HR functions like talent management.