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From Resource to Human Being

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  • Michel Fortier
  • Marie-Noëlle Albert

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Modern human resource management (HRM) has been found to be unsatisfactory as a model and as a praxis concerning human beings in organizations. This article proposes a conceptual change from resource to human being, which we define as “persons management.†After addressing what a person is (a subject navigating between individualism and collectivism; a creative, ethical, and complex being), this text examines how persons can be managed, remembering that persons manage persons. In a dialogical sense, they can help each other and work together, even if they are adversaries. In that sense, persons management must strive to be sustainable at the human, organizational, and environmental levels. We examine certain theoretical and conceptual aspects implied by this restructuring of the field.

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  • Michel Fortier & Marie-Noëlle Albert, 2015. "From Resource to Human Being," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(3), pages 21582440156, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:5:y:2015:i:3:p:2158244015604347
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244015604347
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    1. Nadia Lazzari Dodeler & Marie-Noêlle Albert, 2017. "Développer des communautés de personnes pour manager la diversité en entreprise," Post-Print hal-01865910, HAL.
    2. Marie-Noelle Albert & Jean-Pierre Perouma, 2017. "The Dialogue: an Essential Component to Consider “Organization as a Community of Persons”," Humanistic Management Journal, Springer, vol. 2(1), pages 37-55, October.

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