Abstract
By going through the numerous sources we could find on the internet and in books, we came to the conclusion that it's really difficult to find a unique definition concerning Human Resource Management. This is why with the help of our research we will try to set up one definition on our own understanding. In fact Kenneth M. York, in Applied Human Resource Management of strategic issues and practical exercises, says that 'the purpose of HRM is to manage the people who run the organization.' Just as the organization must manage its physical, capital, and information resources, it must also manage its human resources. HRM could be 'simply' materialized by the purpose of managing people, financial and material aspects within an organization. In this way the organization has to select, recruit and keep people who are qualified for achieving the tasks and objectives. But this purpose has to be split up into functions and practices so as to respect its complexity. The retention of the qualified human resources must be done through specific functions such as Recruitment and selection of a qualified staff, the development of the employee capacity, the motivation so as to keep them in the organization's team, and the employee and labor relation within the organization. But then, within these four functions of HRM one has to have strategic issues and practices so as to implement them.
