Personnel Management dates from the 1890's in the USA - Yes

Personnel Management has more of a welfare than a managerialist tradition in some countries - Yes

Traditional personnel managers had high status compared to managers in other business functions - No

HRM is just a new name for Personnel Management wherever it is applied - No

There is a greater stress on the differences between HRM and Personnel Management outside the USA - Yes

Human Resource Management first evolved in Great Britain - No

The ideas of F.W Taylor and Henry Ford have no influence on management today - No

Human Resource Management is a systematic approach to people management - Yes

The fundamental concepts of HRM are generally agreed and easy to implement - No

Basically, HRM is just Human Relations - No

HRM is one of a number of management fashions that have developed over the last few decades - Yes

The rise of HRM has something to do with female and male power issues - Yes

Hard and soft mean difficult and easy to understand respectively - No

Harvard's model of HRM is much harder than that from Michigan - No

HRM sometimes seems to mean Hypocrisy, Rhetoric and Manipulation - Yes

Human resources are just the same as any other business resource - No

The rise and application of HRM has been faster in theory than in practice - Yes

Human Resource Information Systems and other computer techniques make HRM easier to apply - Yes

Currently there is considerable interest in measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of HR initiatives - Yes

There is a coherent and integrated system of HR certification in the USA - No
 

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