200826 Contemporary People Management

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Essay topic: Human happiness in CPM and in HRM. How can CPM and HRM contribute to the
Happiness Goal?
Introduction
Contemporary People management can be essentially described as a line of discipline
which deals with the manner in which the different people in the organization, such as the
employees present must be treated (Binkley 2014). The people management can be described as
a sub set of the human resource management which not only deals with the daily issues of the
people in a firm but also with the strategic, financial, policy as well as the general management
of the different employees. The primary aim of the essay is to highlight the link between the
Contemporary people management and the Human resource management with ethics along with
examining the Utilitarianism and the `Happiness Principle`. The essay aims to prove that there
exists a link between Contemporary people management and Human resource management and
the theory backed by Bentham`s Utilitarianism and Happiness Principle. The arguments will be
backed by theory and relevant readings.
Discussion
According to Bolton and Houlihan (2007), the Human resource management is a practice
which involves the hiring, recruiting, managing and deploying the different employees as present
in a firm. The term was used in the 1900s and become more common in the 1960s and was
referred in regard to people at the workplaces. The Human resource management, primarily deals
with the employees who are believed to be the assets of the organization. The employees at a
firm are primarily known as the human capital and hence, as a business aims to expand its other
assets and improve the overall operations of the business, in the same manner, it needs to be the

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primary objective of any organization to make an effective use of the different employees as
present in a firm and to maximize the return on investment. In a modern Human resource term,
the Human resource Management is also known as the Human Capital management and adopted
as a key term by different large sized as well as mid-sized organizations.
There are a large number of Human resource management functions which the Human
resource department in an organization needs to look out for and ensure that it is successfully
completed. These functions are functions like talent management and workforce management,
employee recruitment, compensation, performance management, succession planning,
recognition of the employees and training them so that they are able to perform as per the needs
of the organization.
Bolton and Laaser (2013), state that earlier, the Human resource management was just
concerned with the general management of the employees in an organization, however at present
it is concerned with the strategic utilization of the different employees and moreover, the human
resource department needs to act as the strategic partner of the firm whereby they have to assist
the firm in recruiting those employees who will successfully able to ensure that the firm is able
to achieve its long term objectives.
In line with the Human resource management, another term came into light which is the
Contemporary People management. The contemporary people management practices tend to be
the most effective when it is used mutual to the different strategies of the firm at large.
Moreover, there is an evidence of the increasing use of people management practices at the
workplace as they bring about unique performance of the firm at large (Youtube.com. 2018). The
contemporary people management deals with the different functions as follows. It is primarily
engaged in the strategic analysis of the organization and the identification of the different skills