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Human Resources and the Future For Work
Author(s) -
Lansbury R.D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118302100309
Subject(s) - human resources , unemployment , work (physics) , investment (military) , service (business) , recession , subject (documents) , business , economics , political science , economic growth , politics , economy , management , law , mechanical engineering , computer science , engineering , keynesian economics , library science
The human consequences of economic and technological change have long been the subject of both popular and scholarly debate. It is frequently asserted by politicians, trade union leaders and business executives that the nation's most valuable and important resource is people. Yet the need to develop human resources continues to rank well below concerns about investment in other resources such as minerals, energy or manufacturing. The current economic recession and the growth of widespread unemployment, especially among the young, will test the ‘lip service’ which has been hitherto paid to the importance of sustaining and developing the nation's human resources.