“Don’t Fear Failure So Much That You Refuse To Try New Things. The Saddest

Summary Of A Life Contains Three Descriptions: Could Have, Might Have,

And Should Have. “

InstrumentalismHumanism

VS

Syeda Ilahdadi Tehseen Jaffer - 3483

This study examines the two parallel ends i.e. Rhetoric (Developmental Humanism) and Reality (Utilitarian Instrumentalism) in workforce management.

INTRODUCTION

• Focuses on integration of human resource policies, systems and activities with business strategy.• Considered as expense of doing business

INSTRUMENTALISM

• Deploying human resources as numbers and skills at the right price rather than the source of creative energy

HUMANISM• The focus is on treating employees as valued assets and a source of competitive advantage• Capable of development and worthy of trust• Generating commitment via communication, motivation and leadership• The focus is on the "human" in HRM• Employee empowerment

Paired Sample T-Test is used here. The null hypothesis specifies that the mean will remain unchanged since there is no difference between humanism and instrumentalism. The significant value is greater than 0.05 therefore ACCEPT Ho.If significant value is 0.269>0.05ACCEPT HoPaired Samples Statistics

3.05 200 .419 .030

3.01 200 .442 .031

Human_SM

Instru_SM

Pair 1Mean N Std. Deviation

Std. ErrorMean

Paired Samples Test

.045 .570 .040 -.035 .124 1.109 199 .269Human_SM - Instru_SMPair 1Mean Std. Deviation

Std. ErrorMean Lower Upper

95% ConfidenceInterval of the Difference

Paired Differences

t df Sig. (2-tailed)

RESULT

CONCLUSION• There is no such difference between instrumentalism and humanism•Whilst hard and soft HRM both give weight to a link with strategy and the importance of people hence no difference between the two.

What should be done?

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever”