THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MANAGERIAL THINKING

Abstract

Today, to maintain their lives and achieve sustainable competitive advantage that are their most basic goal, organizations have started to give more importance to ‘human resources’. In modern day, human beings have become valuable assets located at the center of organizations and seen as the strategic partner and resource. The reasons why the man was seen as an expense item, a mere muscle power and a cog in the machine in organizations and working life in the past, and as a valuable and strategic asset today, and what are the factors effective in this change, are the main problem and curiosity of this research. In this context, the aim of this research is to examine the evolution of human resources from past to present and the factors affecting this evolution. It is thought that the conceptual examination and drawing of a portrait of the evolution from personnel management to digital human resources management will contribute to the literature and give an idea to the sector representatives and those concerned, and the study is considered important in this aspect.