Abstract:

In times of great technological change of market evolution, mergers and acquisition, the issue of human resource management would seem to be a very low profile activity. Traditionally in-fact, human resource management has never been considered a strategic issue, but something to be dealt with only when necessary and possibly delegated to managers of lower levels. Of course, executives and CEO are too busy with market shares globalization, the achievement of financial objectives, return on investments. Why then bother such high and concrete thinking with trivial matters such as motivation and "strokes", education and training?