Supporting Work-Family Amalgamation through E-HRM

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Author(s): Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko (University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Teresa Torres-Coronas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)and Mario Arias-Oliva (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-883-3.ch120

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Human Resources Development / Human Resources Management

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Managerial practices and changes can be understood and appreciated when placed in a historical context. Kramar (2006) suggests that the starting point should be in the1980’s where issues relating to human resources in organizations were steered by managers themselves, with little or no involvement of the humans being managed. This was an instrumental management view because employees were regarded as instruments to be used to produce and deliver services for the benefit of the organization. Managers’ control of workers in ensuring high productivity was highly esteemed. Overemphasizing the role of managers meant downplaying the interests of workers being managed and holding in the highest regard job tasks and how such tasks were performed. It was a management approach that emphasized organizational needs at the expense of individual well-being. This approach attracted some criticisms.

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