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Waseem - Personnel Management PDF
Waseem - Personnel Management PDF
Management
• HRM historically known as PM, deals with formal system for the
management of the people within the organization.
• The PM was a significant change in the way we work with people in the
organization, it represented one of the best improvement of workplace
conditions ever introduced.
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Personnel Management
Concept of Personnel Management (continue …)
• There is no universal definition of PM however, the PM was the
evolutionary step in overall development of HRM.
• They key goal of PM was designing cost-efficient processes and kept the
organization competitive.
• Handle labor laws and directly interact with labor and law-enforcement
authorities.
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Personnel Management
Personnel Management vs Human Resource Management
• HRM is new strategic approach of PM, the borderline between the PM
and HRM is not very sharp.
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Personnel Management
PM and HRM - Current and past state
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Difference between PM and HRM
• Personnel management is a traditional approach of managing people in the
organization. Human resource management is a modern approach of managing
people and their strengths in the organization.
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Personnel Management
Difference between PM and HRM – Continue ….1
• Under personnel management, job design is done on the basis of division of
labor. Under human resource management, job design function is done on the
basis of group work/team work.
• Under personnel management, employees are provided with less training and
development opportunities. Under human resource management, employees are
provided with more training and development opportunities.
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Difference between PM and HRM – Continue ….2
• Personnel management is concerned with personnel manager. Human resource
management is concerned with all level of managers from top to bottom.
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Conclusion
Many researchers have been arguing on difficulty to distinguish Personnel
Management with Human Resource Management. Some believe that the
difference is just a change of label as Torrington (1989cited in Koster 2007)
said that there is no different in the content of Human resource
management. On the other hand, there are researchers such as Guest (1987
cited in Arsmtrong, 1999) who argued that Human resource management is
differentiated from traditional Personnel management.