The study area of HRM is very wide and interdisciplinary, it covers the problems of organization and management theory as well as: social psychology, sociology and education. The emergence of the subdiscipline of HRM, however, puts the cognitive challenges associated with the adoption of the basic methodological assumptions. How to classify the theories and research methods drawn from different disciplines? There are many accepted typologies of human resource management concepts that refer to the history and practice of this subdiscipline. This article presents a proposition of understanding human resources management in the organizational discourse from the different point of reference in the form of paradigms of social sciences.