Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the trends in A ustralian human resource management ( HRM ) policies in the last fifty years. It briefly reports on the practices used in the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s and provides a brief description of the characteristics of the concept of strategic human resource management ( SHRM ). The article then examines the results of four surveys co‐ordinated by the C ranet N etwork and conducted in A ustralia between 1996 and 2008–09. These surveys show there have been strong trends of HRM policies becoming more calculative and individual, a reduction in the role of collective organisations, the adoption of some HRM policies regarded as more effective than others and the development of the roles of HRM managers and HRM departments. There was increasing use of flexible working practices, greater use of performance appraisals, the development of policies such as career planning methods, career break schemes and targeting older workers and women. The representation of human resource managers on boards increased between 1996 and 2008–09.
Author: Robin Kramar
Institution: Australian Catholic University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1491404513