HUMAN MANAGEMENT IN COLOMBIA

In Colombia, economic openness and the need for companies to respond to challenges in international markets and forced to rethink this feature but it still is far from decisive considered in business success, however the modernization carried deregulation of labor, the search for mechanisms of participation, flexibility in tying, untying and workers Compensation (Valero, 1999; Dombois, 1999).

relationships between business modernization and human resource management in the country, describes the characteristics of the areas of human resource management and human resource practices, a description of the labor market and labor relations in accordance with management is performed human resources, and lastly knowledge generation in Colombia is discussed, considering the three most salient perspectives: sociological, humanistic and strategic, and since this last area where human management and practices with the achievement of objectives and strategic goals of the organization, in consideration of its intangible assets as a source of sustainable competitive advantage.

  HUMAN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN COLOMBIAN COMPANIES.

Relatively little research on the practices of human resource management in Colombia, but will try to make a general characterization of the principal as selection, training, career planning, compensation and performance evaluation.

Before performing this discrimination analysis is pertinent to note that two studies have shown that while midsized businesses have a lack of integration between HR practices and business strategy (Calderon et al., 2004) whether this relationship exists in companies large (Calderon, 2006b).