- Development - developing high-quality employees.
Figure 2.1 The Human Resource Cycle (adapted from Fombrun et al,
19 84)RewardsSelection Performance
Management Performance^DevelopmentFombrun et al suggest that the HR function should be linked to the line
organization by providing the business with good HR databases, by ensuring
that senior managers give HR issues as much attention as they give to other
functions, and by measuring the contribution of the HR function at the
strategic, managerial and operational levels.
The Harvard framework
The other founding fathers of HRM were the Harvard School of Beer et al
(1984)^11 who developed what Boxall (1992)^12 call the 'Harvard framework'.
This framework is based on the belief that the problems of historical personnel
management can only be solved when general managers develop a viewpoint
of how they wish to see employees involved in and developed by the
enterprise, and of what HRM policies and practices may achieve those goals.
Without either a central philosophy or a strategic vision - which can be
provided only by general managers - HRM is likely to remain a set of
independent activities, each guided by its own practice tradition.