Professionelle Personaler zwischen Rationalisierung und allgemeinem Management: Professionalisierung ohne Bildung einer eigenen Profession

Trends like rising specialization and qualification entail an increase in professionalism of human resource management, which is professional anyway. Simultaneously, there are counter-movements like outsourcing and rationalization that endanger personnel specialists and particularly human resources departments. Unlike other management functions, an independent human resources management is additionally threatened with a substitution by general managers, who always have leadership and other personnel duties too. Thus, structured and separable tasks are at risk of being lost to external companies or computers while unstructured and synergistic assignments are assumed by line managers. Therefore, human resources practitioners presumably do not form a proper profession but there are increasingly different external and internal specializations besides the general management.