Personnel Management and Human Resource Management

Personnel Management
Personnel Management with its narrow focus on administration, reactive behavior and severance from the management mainstream - lacked top management support and made itself vulnerable to irrelevance amidst the business and organizational changes. From its traditional association with provision of welfare, policy interpretation and "corporate police" function, it thus justifies the notion of personnel management's image as a bureaucratic nuisance.

What Is Human Resource Management?
Human Resource Management (HRM) involves the productive use of people in achieving the organization's strategic business objectives and the satisfaction of individual employee needs. As HRM seeks to strategically integrate the interests of an organization and its employees, it can be a major contributor to the success of an enterprise because its positional influences can affect customers, business results and ultimately shareholder value. Effective HRM stays relevant to the busines...