Evolution and current status of university HR programs
回顾了大学人力资源教育从20世纪初至今的演变，总结了当代HR学位项目的结构与课程，并分析了该学科领域的优缺点。
Current-day university human resource educational programs had their beginnings in the late 1910s and early 1920s when textbooks and courses in personnel management first appeared, an event that occurred in tandem with the emergence of personnel management/industrial relations as a new functional area of business practice. Over the next eight decades, both the practice of HR management and the university programs that train people for it have evolved and grown in a number of important and interesting ways. This article provides a brief overview of this evolution in university HR education, summarizes the structure and curriculum of contemporary HR degree programs, and briefly describes the strengths and weaknesses of HR management as an intellectual subject area. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.