Adrian Wilkinson reviews the historical development of human resource management, showing how the changes in political, legal, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed. Considering HRM in a global world, he considers how it is adapting to a very different work landscape. - Considers the ways human resource management functions in our global world, and how it copes with issues such as competition, regulation, cultural differences, and remote working - Uses cases and examples to analyse the development of human resource management - Shows how the changes in political, legal, social, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed - Describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history led to the state of human resource management today - Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide