by Ahmed Zaki

Created on: April 30, 2008   Last Updated: June 13, 2009

Human Resource Management(HRM) has evolved so much to mean what it is today. How to get about human resource management is a good question to attempt to provide valuable answers for the people and the organisations. At the end of the day, what human resource management function is creating a cohesive workteam, develop relationship with and love for the organisation. In short, managing the relationship between people and the organisation. Today, HRM has developed further to be SHRM ( Strategic Human Resource Management) which mean human resource issues are voiced at strategic level. However, to understand HRM, anybody should have feel for the people. The importance of people in his or her organisation. The knowledge and knowledge workers, the human capital comprises of three elements, tacit knowledge and experience are important things to look into when it comes to human resource management. People. People. People and people. This has to be the voice of HR professionals. They are not simply administrative officials. They should not be limited to those traditional functions of HR. The key belief should be that, human beings are similar but different therefore UNIQUE. In order to understand people aspect more i thought to write and publish the following article review.

PETER F. DRUCKER's
"They're Not Employees, They're People"
ARTICLE REVIEW
By Ahmed Zaki

INTRODUCTION
This aims at reviewing the article written by the great business thinker Peter Drucker (2002) entitling "They're Not Employees, They're People" in the context of two HRM concepts, namely, motivation and training and development. This report will closely identify the major themes, evaluate the article on the basis of those themes to understand the extent to which they are related to today's context and will question about the applicability in different circumstances of the employees work-life. This piece of academic work interests me as the author of this article is world acclaimed professor in management science and the father of modern management.
Peter F. Drucker is a writer, management consultant and university professor who was born in Vienna, Austria in November 1909. After he had done doctorate in Public and International Law from Frankfurt University, Germany, he worked as an economist and journalist in London and later moved to the United States in 1937. In 1950, he joined the faculty of New York University's Graduate Business School as Professor of Management. Since 1971, he had been Clarke Professor

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