Personnel Management vs. Human Resources

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Comparison of Personnel Management and Human Resource Management Personnel management and Human Resource Management is believed by some authors to be the same role but with a changed name as Torrington (1989 cited in Koster 2007) said and there is no different in the content of Human resource management. Human Resource Management (HRM) is a process which involves employee selection, training and development, promotion, performance review, union interface and other related activities. Peterson and Tracy (1981) emphasised that HRM is an “emerging dynamic field in terms of both the staff functional and day to day utilisation of human resources throughout the organisation ”. W. French (1990) suggests HRM as that embodies the policies, procedures, philosophy and practices related to the management of people within the organisation. The personnel is primarily functional where it’s focus is placed with administration of specific employee related functions such as hiring, training, compensation and disciplinary action. Personnel management doesn’t view these functions as ones that are interrelated. The perspective shifts towards an emphasis of the dynamic action-oriented perspective of organisation. HRM is more developmental in its approach as it combines the individual goals with those of the organisation focusing on the growth and development of the individual. Human Resources Management is feed-forward in that it involves and is also participatory involving employees in all management processes. There is a sense of innovation as it continually makes changes as well as introduce innovations in all personnel functions to facilitate and promote change as well as development for the organisation and its employees. The major difference between personnel management vs. human resource management comes down to the approach. Personnel management is a traditional task
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