Human resource management

Abstract

This paper undertakes an exploration of the nature of employment and development practices in a sample of companies in Kenya. A contemporary ‘Western’ model of human resource management (HRM) is adopted as an analytical tool as well as an aid in the search for comparability between the popular beliefs in the conception of HRM and the extant managerial practices of these companies. The findings suggest that the adoption of HRM will be mediated by various contextual circumstances as well as the internal coherence of the concept of HRM itself.