commercial soul dictates that hr stands for business; that the business strategies are paramount as hr stays only if business survives.So we bring in competence assessment, balance score card, goal oriented appraisals, productivity linked incentives, risk based rewards, structured authority levels, evaluated jobs, attractive severance packages. Perhaps organisation management and people management came from a need to organise force to win wars and could easily be transported into commercial and trade wars in the market.
human behavior and eastern spiritualism directs towrads an holistic approach to human capabilities and aspirations of humans from life. Business needs are just an element in that pursuit, and success on human behaviour control, in an organisation context, depends on how well the employee is encouraged to balance the two.
there is undoubtedly a case for professional empathetic social work.
