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Philbert Kajeli James
Human Resource Manager, Tanzania
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Human Resources Management: Art or Science?
Is the human resources management field a science or an art?
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Ruben A. Villanueva, Philippines
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Is HRM an Art or a Science? Human resources management for me is both science and art. Designing strategies to manage organizational behavior demands enormous effort of creativity but it has to be anchored on time-tested management principles already defined by masters and management gurus in our time.
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vanessa sesi, Cote Divoire (Ivory Coast)
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HRM as an Art or Science There are as many approaches to the topic of management as there are writers and to me HRM is an art or science depending on your background. Personally I see HRM as providing the right atmosphere for your employees to give their best in achieving the objectives of the organisation. It becomes a science when you bring in the idea of experiments and its an art when you do something to arrive at a particular destination. So in other words: HRM is what it is from how you see it.
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D P BABU
Strategy Consultant, India
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HRM an Art or a Science? Human resouceses - people - encompass unique features and characteristics termed to be potential which need to be managed for serving organized purposes in the pursuit of its management. Hence HRM needs to be operated both as an artistic and as a managerial phenomenon. Attribution of art and science to HRM go hand in hand.
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Jagdish B Acharya
Consultant, India
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Depends on Number of People Involved When HRM has to handle a situation involving a group of people, the techniques used are part of science of HRM. General established rules may be applied to a group of people in a scientific manner with higher chances of success.
When it is dealing with individual talents, strengths and ways to maximize individual output to cost, it is an art. For individuals, areas like psychology of people play a major role and HRM is more of an art.
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Dapo Akinloye
Student (MBA), Nigeria
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HRM an Art or Science? HRM in practice is an art. It is technical in approach - which is defined as building or creating through skills. However, HRM also involves volumes of scientific approach or technology, which is building through established processes. Thus, it is safe to say HRM is an art that uses scientific approaches to achieve set objectives.
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saikrishna
Student (MBA), India
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HRM is an Art or a Science As far as I'm concerned HRM is an art of science...
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Ghulam Muhammad
HR Consultant, Pakistan
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Human Resource is Science and also Arts. For me HR is a science when we formulate strategy and implementation of strategy is art.
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Madaiah
Management Consultant, India
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HRM is an Art or a Science HRM is a subject of concern with humans and their behavior in a given environment. Any given set of behavior in response to a specific environmental conditions occurs in patterns that are repeated. In this context the HRM is a science. The management functions of providing specific environmental conditions that are conducive to best perforce of task, as well as providing specific satisfaction to those who are engaged in it, is an art.
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Denba
HR Consultant, Kenya
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Is HRM an Art or a Science? I think, before this question is answered we must at least understand what an art is and what a science is. An art is any thing that is visibly done in patterns but hasn't any apparent definite rules. On the other hand a science has definite rules e.g. area of a rectangle = length * width. For a long time HRM has been an art where we observe how people will react to a given management initiative then make some conclusions, however as human beings we have a responsibility to leave this generation with standard operating procedures which work (formulas) and at that point we start to become scientific, when we establish definite interaction points especially after using statistical methods then we become scientific. As of now we still cannot say it is a science because we have not come up with a definite set of facts. We are still working with theories and testing them, for this basic reason it is essential that such forums are multiplied where can share research findings as we seek the land of facts.
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Binayak Shankar
Student (University), India
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Is HRM Science or Art? HRM is both science and art. As a science it is an established body of knowledge governed through some set of principles and rules as HRM is governed through various management principles and labour laws of the country.
But at the same time HRM is an art as there are individual differences in the practice of these laws and principles.
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Jan-Tore Clausen
Management Consultant, Norway
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Individual DIfferences I see results in different areas and HRM is both science and art because of the huge differences from leader to leader and workplace to workplace.
The main issue is to all get in the science box: we need better and clearer info on our workplaces.
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Brereton Mitambo, Malawi
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Is HRM a Science or Art I believe that Human Resource Management is a science because there are principles and long-term practices that underline HRM.
On the other hand HRM is also an art because every manager has a personal approach to the whole practice, while not ignoring the fundamental principles, which I call 'formulae' of HRM.
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FASESIN David
Manager, Nigeria
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Is HRM Science or Art? HRM is a science and an art as a discipline.
It's a science in the case of scientific research on a particular phenomenon e.g. employee behaviour, employee motivation, decision making.
It becomes an art if the outcome of the research is to be implemented through identified changes needed for improvement.
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Tiku Godwin Bissong, Nigeria
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Human Relation Management is a Social Science Human relation management is a science, because it deals with complex human behavior, act, career formation and development, appraisals, reward and query.
All this is done through the collection of data (through empirical or scientific means).
We therefore say that Human Resource Management is not a pure applied science as physics and chemistry, but a social management science that comes out with results using scientific and qualitative tools to reach its findings.
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Dattatreya
HR Consultant, India
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HTM used to be an Art I was assigned to measure the EQ of HR personnel - almost 50 of them - in a large organisation. Test results showed 5 of them at average in empathy and social skills... Rest were below the average. It used to be called personnel function decades back and was practiced as an art... And even if there were unwritten & unspecified systems, people had faith and trust in them and followed religiously. Today with fully specified systems the spirit dies not exist. It is now like a science without considering humanity.
I wish all to think and apologize for being a bit provocative.
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D P BABU
Strategy Consultant, India
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To Consider HRM as Art One Should Play the Role of Artist, Isn't So? Systems are created by people who were systematic and artistic. Systems cannot carry away people so long as people not improve the systems with their artistic outlook. Hence HR professional need to play the role of artist.
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rene sirois
HR Consultant, Canada
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Human Resource Science or Art There is a paradox between science and art. Most companies orient their human resources in a system by creating programs, policies, using the last trends in science behaviors. At the same time they wa...
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rene sirois
HR Consultant, Canada
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Human Resource: Art or Science? HR is based on social sciences and becomes art by using the creativity in how we implement program or approaches....
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Farhan Abdul Rehman
Student (MBA), Pakistan
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HR is a Combination of Both Its theory gives an impression of arts but while implementing HR policies social, psychological science factors must present....
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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HRM HRM is an artistic science, and a scientific art: to give the best to internal customers and in turn to get the best from them....
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Ulrich Schweiker
Director, Germany
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Art and Science - Opposite Poles of One Dimension? Complementary? Or Two Dimensions? @Jagdish B Acharya: well, it is hard to make such a distinction: just when you mention "psychology" - it has many origins and you may find its roots in areas like philosophy, poetry, literature, histo...
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Dattatreya
HR Consultant, India
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How HR is Both a Science and an Art - In theory, it is science: What to do with Vision, Structure, Systems etc.
- In practice, it is pure art: Requiring spirit, Connections, Positively Motivated Actions, Passion for Action, Meaningful ...
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Bhide Vishwas
Professor, India
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HRM - Art or Science?? ART relates to actual performance; where as SCIENCE speaks about the basic principles. Handling Human Resource is undoubtedly an 'ART' (which involves high skill).
HRM has developed a good scientific...
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Vinay Gunputh, Mauritius
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HRM is BOTH an Art AND a Science For me HRM is both an ART and a Science:
- The art of organizing or planning, delegating or even performing...
- A science, to understand the human psychology, behavior, attitude...
Well as HR Mana...
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Ulrich Schweiker
Director, Germany
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Is HRM a Science or an Art? Again, this a question typical of our approach to life: divide and separate... For artist / scientists in the Middle Ages it was obvious that any artist needs a lot of scientific understanding of the ...
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Abaane Mohammed Abeo
Student (University), Ghana
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Is HRM a Science or an Art? It is both a science and an art, because it combines features of both of them:
- It is considered as a science because it has an organized body of knowledge which contains certain universal truth.
-...
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Fekadu Letike
Student (MBA), Ethiopia
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HRM SCIENCE OR ART? I think similar to Management, HRM is both science and an art.
Because science includes finding new methods, policies, strategies, procedures and different results through experiment and study. At th...
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Sheeba Ghaffar
Student (MBA), Pakistan
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HRM both Science and Art HRM is both Science and Art, because a HR Manager has to find the right person to furnish the organizational goals and development of the company, has to develop new HR policies and strategies and has...
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D P BABU
Strategy Consultant, India
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Is HRM Science or Art? Human beings engaged in an organization are a strategic resource to achieve the organization's objectives. The General Management aims at making these human beings resourceful to achieve the organizat...
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Pedro Danilo Diaz Tueme
HR Consultant, Mexico
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HR, Science or Art? Neither one of them, nor science or art...
The tittle name, Human RESOURCES Management, explains it for itself…
Our goal as HR is, to get the best personnel available, and prepare them with our best...
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K.Narayana Moorthy
HR Consultant, India
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Is HRM Science or Art? In HR an "art" component is applied in the form of emotional intelligence. For years, companies have invested significant time in developing, transforming, on-boarding and off-boarding processes to he...
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D P BABU
Strategy Consultant, India
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Is HRM Art or Science? HRM requires to respond, interact and direct intellectuals to contribute their energies to achieve unique goals strategically aligned towards organizational objectives. The outcome are those results a...
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