Personnel Management and Human Resource Managment

• When it comes to handling all the responsibilities associated with maintaining a workforce, personnel management has the most legal and financial responsibilities of the whole organization, without which the overall success of the business is at risk. http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Personnel_Management

-It is said that personnel management is the foundation of a company. In which, without this the company will not succeed and it will be hard to reach its goals.

• Administrative discipline of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization. It includes (1) conducting job analyses, (2) planning personnel needs, and recruitment, (3) selecting the right people for the job, (4) orienting and training, (5) determining and managing wages and salaries, (6) providing benefits and incentives, (7) appraising performance, (8) resolving disputes, (9) communicating with all employees at all levels. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/personnel-management.html
  

-Personnel Management includes making job analyses so that a company will know what is the needs of the company itself and its employees.

• Business Definition for: Personnel Management
  
  * the part of management that is concerned with people and their relationships at work. Personnel management is the responsibility of all those who manage people, as well as a description of the work of specialists. Personnel managers advise on, formulate, and implement personnel policies such as recruitment, conditions of employment, performance appraisal, training, industrial relations, and health and safety. There are various models of personnel management, of which human resource management is the most recent. http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/Personnel+Management.htm

-The business world describes personnel management as the responsibility of supervisors or managers. In which supervisors or managers will advise and of course make decisions for the sake of the company as well as the employees under his/her level.

• Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of specialist personnel and human resource management advisory services to departments, and the development and implementation of a relevant, coherent and modern framework of employment policies and practices throughout the University.
  Each member of Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of these services to a number of departments. This distribution is known as the Personnel Management Portfolio.
  
  Personnel Management is also responsible for the delivery of the Human Resource Strategy and associated programmes of work. http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/personnel/management/index.php

-Like the above description of personnel management, it is stated that it is responsible for making decisions and it is also added that it is also responsible for making and deciding what strategies should be used between different departments of a certain company.

• Personnel management is concerned with the effective use of the skills of people. They may be salespeople in a store, clerks in an office, operators in a factory, or technicians in a research laboratory. In a business, personnel management starts with the recruiting and hiring of qualified people and continues with directing and encouraging their growth as they encounter problems and tensions that arise in working toward established goals. http://www.zeromillion.com/business/personnel/personnel-management.html

-The above statement states that personnel management that is concerned with the best use of the people inside a firm. It may range from the lowest level in the company to the highest. Thus, hiring the most qualified appliocant will be the best for the company.

HRM

• The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. http://managementhelp.org/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm

-HRM is broad and it holds a very huge portion of a certain firm. One of the activities that HRM does is deciding on what the company needs.

• Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by line managers. http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryh/f/hr_management.htm

-It is described very brief, in which it is said that HRM focuses mostly on recruiting, hiring and supervising or giving direction on employees.

• Human Resource Management is a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of highly committed and capable workforce, using an integrated array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=bc8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Human+Resource+Management&source=bl&ots=t0IGMS_-5l&sig=mkGU-Q_D-2ewBd9HELW6MJ-1k04&hl=tl&ei=Dmq4SvmuIsn7tgfjw4DuDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false

-It is described as having a deep approach to employment, in which it is looking forward for achieving and having the very best workforce.

• Human resource management is resource-centered activity providing and deploying human resources catering to management needs. It is aligned to management interest being a management activity. Demand rather than supply is the focus of the activity. HRM emphasized on planning, monitoring and control. Human resources issues and problem solving is undertaken with other members of the management. Management of human resources is similar to other aspect of management in the organisation and an integrated part of it. http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937653&promo=100511

-I agree with the description, except for this line, "HRM emphasized on planning, monitoring and control." Because we all know that we can never control human beings.

• The human resource function has gone from the traditional hire and fire role to a strategic partner at the table with finance, operations and other business centers that are not centers of profit for the organization. The job of HR, as is the job of all such departments, is to ensure that the business gets the most out of its employees. Another way to put this is that the human resource management needs to provide a high return on the business's investment in its people. This makes it a highly complex function - because it deals with not just management issues but human ones as well. http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937441&promo=100511

-HRM is responsible for all of the departments and it should have the most out of its employees.