Manoj's HRM Blog: Personnel Management vs. Human Resource Management

The words Personnel, Staff or Work force have the same meaning for the employees who are work in an organization. The past Personnel Management focused people as members of the organization and the people treated as economic man and their services were exchanged for the salary or the wage. The decisions are slow of the personnel management and they directly influenced employees. As well as the actions taken by the personnel management are according to the procedures and they were directly affected to the employees of the organization. The main functions of personnel management can be listed as below,

· Recruitment

· Employment

· Training

· Redeployment

· Safety

· Departure of employees

Modern Human Resource Management, in short form HRM is currently functioning in most of organizations. In HRM considering people are economic, social and psychological man. Employees are treated as profit centers.HRM is a strategic function and its actions are based on the business needs of the organization. The decisions which are getting by the HRM are very speedy and focused on employee’s facilities. In HRM we can see below main activities,

· Human Resource Planning

· Recruitment and selection

· Creation of a sustained learning environment through the organization

· Provision on efficient administration

· Advise on Pay, Salaries and other conditions of employment

· Advise on legal matters

Further we can see below comparison between Personnel Management and HRM through the common criterions which we can discuss in both Personnel Management and HRM.

Criterion	Personnel Management	HRM
Use employees	for organizational benefits	for multiple benefits
Behavior	based on norms, policies, customs and practices	based on organizations values and mission
Communication	Indirect	Direct
Task	are monitoring	are nurturing
Pay	based on job evaluation	based on performance evaluation
Management leadership role	transactional	transformational