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A paper which assesses whether psychometrics should play a more significant part in human resource development, and considers the aims and objectives of HRD itself as well as current models of psychometrics which might be particularly appropriate to those aims. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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have to consider the aims and objectives of HRD itself, and then go on to look at current models of psychometrics which might be particularly appropriate to those aims.
One of the most notable aspects of modern human resource management is the extent to which it has changed and developed since the
early days of "personnel management" in the latter part of the twentieth century. The influence of HRM in all areas of organisational culture, and its importance to the success of
the organisation as a whole, reflects the way in which it has expanded from a comparatively small and discrete element of organisational structure to a far more pervasive ideological influence.
McNamara (1999), for example, defines HRM as that area of management which is to do with "all the
decisions, strategies, factors, principles, operations, practices, functions, activities and methods related to the management of people as employees in any type of organisation" (McNamara, 1999) in which he also includes
those areas in which working life extends into other societal spheres. Human resource development, then, is not only concerned with the employee qua employee, but also with those influences, pressures
and stresses which impact on the employees life outside of the workplace - family, local and national politics, social interaction and so on - and with correlating the employees abilities,
skills and strengths with the needs of the organisation. We could argue therefore that the ultimate objective of
HRD is to ensure that there is a mutually beneficial interaction between worker and organisation, which balances the requirements of both in an egalitarian manner, taking into account both individual
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