Pfosten 17 ║ ◘◘ assignment 9 ◘◘

DEFINITIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT:

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.Human Resource Management is the organizational function that deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training.

-Author: Susan M. Healthfield,About.com-
Source:[http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryh/f/hr_management.htm]

The definition lacks other components of Human Resource Management like health of the personnel. It does not even include employment condition which is also one of the component of HRM but still, it was properly stated some of the functions of a Human Resouce Management.

Personnel Management is 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.

-Author: BNET Business Dictionary-
Source: [http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/Personnel+Management.html]

This definition only concern with organization that focuses on the conditions of employment, performance appraisal, training, industrial relations, and health and safety.I agree that personnel management is part of management that is concerned with people and the relationship at work because I believe that this definition is one of the major function of a personnel manager.

"Human resource management is responsible for how people are treated in organizations. It is responsible for bringing people into the organization, helping them perform their work, compensating them for their labors, and solving problems that arise"

-Author: (Cherrington, 1995, p. 5)-
Source: [http://www.answers.com/topic/human-resource-management]

The definition focuses on how an employee is treated in an organization. This definition fails to include the different components of Human Resource Management like health, safety and some common usage like firing and trainings.

Define personnel management as being: “a series of activities which: first enable working people and their employing organizations to agree about the objectives and nature of their working relationship and, secondly, ensures that the agreement is fulfilled"

-Author: Torrington and Hall (1987)(p. 49)-
Source:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management]

In this definition personnel management are usually used in a more restricted sense in describing activities that are considered as necessary in the recruitment of a workforce, providing each member with proper payroll and benefits, and also in administrating the employees work-life needs.

HRM relates to: ".......those decisions and actions which concern the management of employees at all levels in the business and which are related to the implementation of strategies directed towards creating and sustaining competitive advantage"

-Author: While Miller (1987)(p. 352)-
Source:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management]

The definition is concern with the decisions, actions and implementation of strategies but it fails to define the functions and components of HRM like hiring, firing, training, safety, compensation and more.

As a whole, all the definitions about Human Resource Management and Personnel Management are true and I agree with it though some of them fails to define the other functions, components, usage and law of an HRM and personnel management. Human resource is then considered as the heart of an organization, without it, the company cannot really stand. I agree that Human resource deals with the people,manage and took good care of the people who are working for a certain company. And the workforce that do all these things are sometimes referred to as personnel management.