Human Resources

Sociology (Humanities), 1958

Staffing. Personnel. Personal executioner department of a CEO masquerading as a unit for workers’ rights.

Although mentioned in similar ways back to 1915, the first use of the term “Human Resources” comes from a report for the Yale Labor and Management Center titled “The Human Resources Function” by sociology professor Edward Bakke.

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/274632
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=human+resources
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=human+resources
• https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-13832356/the-human-resources-function
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Wight_Bakke