human resources in Colombia

This analytical study briefly reviews the relationship between the modernization of business practices and human resource management in Colombia. It provides a description of the characteristics of human resource departments and practices, including a description of the labor market and employee relations consistent with human resource management. The last part discusses the generation of knowledge in this country, taking into account the three most relevant perspectives, namely, the sociological, humanist, and strategic perspectives, of which the latter links human resource departments and practices with the strategic objectives and goals of an organization, considering that its intangible assets are the main source of its sustainable competitive advantage.
Before analyzing the conditions of human resource management in Colombia is pertinent to consider some organizational factors may have happened in the last few decades and which directly affect the role of the areas of human resource management in organizations; one of these factors is called enterprise modernization beyond introducing new technologies and reorganizing work processes. "It is a delicate and complicated social process of adaptation to the social order of business, with labor-management relations that have their own traditions and customs regulated