Freedom and Reform

In the book, Freedom and Reform the author Frank H. Knight doesn't really go into detail about the facets of HRM, but he does talk about things such as social science and political trends, ethics and economic reform, and also things such as, human nature and world democracy, all these which he indirectly refers to Human Resources Management in some way.

In discussing world democracy the author says that in the past few centuries, limited areas of Western Europe and its colonies, have men confronted the task of or attempted to direct future history by intelligent mass action. He states that democracy is much more than a form of government. Rather, its advent marks a transformation of man and of the meaning of a social problem.

Through out the book the author uses a philosopher's perspective in order to critique and examine things. Below is an example of one of his philosophical thoughts regarding social problems:

"The idea that the social problem is essentially or primarily economic is a fallacy. And to outgrow this fallacy is one of the conditions of progress toward a real solution of the social problem as a whole. If our material wants were automatically gratified, or if we had none; if we had no work in any sense to do, and the social problem in the United States were simply that of organizing play activities for the relief of boredom, there is no reason to believe that social conflicts would be either less intense or essentially changed in character."