Assigment 10 in HRM

PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

1.) Personal management

Personal management is about mapping a plan for your life that will involve setting short-range and long-range goals and investigating different ways to reach those goals. Education, training, and experience all help make your goals become a reality. To achieve your goals, you will choose the best path and make a commitment to it, while remaining flexible enough to deal with changes and new opportunities.

Source: Bodnar, Janet. Kiplinger's Money-Smart Kids. Kiplinger Books, 1999.

Critique: Yes I agree that in management you must have first a plan which is the key to reach your goals. This plan helps you to perform your role in order to have those goals.

2.) Personnel Management
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.

Source: http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/personnel+management.html

Critique: It describes that the people who is responsible for his employees and keeping them a good followers is an act of managing. The manager train properly his employee for the betterment of the firm.

3.) Personnel Management - personnel having overall planning and direction responsibilities

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/management+personnel

Critique: As what I said in the first definition you must plan first before you decide in order to have a good result in your management. It is your responsibility as a personnel manager.

4.) Personnel Management

In all organizations, there should be someone concerned with the welfare and performance of persons who are a part of the operation. When an individual or a team of individuals takes on this task of seeing to programs and setting policies that impact everyone associated with the company, they are engaged in the process of personnel management, sometimes referred to as human resources (HR) management.

Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-personnel-management.htm

Critique: The definition explains that it is helping the session of the firm for their plans and directions to go to a process for the implementation.

5.) Personnel Management

Personnel Management is responsible for recruiting and hiring qualified individuals to deliver city services, administering the pay classification plan to insure competitive wages. Through the personnel policies, Personnel Management administers guidelines for employee behavior, hiring & terminations, disciplinary actions, tuition reimbursement and employee leave including FMLA.

Source: http://www.ci.palm-coast.fl.us/government/departments/employment/personnelmanagement.aspx

Critique: It discussed the acquisation of the employees that is qualified to the vacant position of a firm. The personnel manager evaluates the applicants to see his qualifications and if it is qualified the manager guide the new hire to become more comfortable to his position.

Human Resource Management

1.) Human Resource Management

The strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. The terms "human resource management" and "human resources" (HR) have largely replaced the term "personnel management" as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations. In simple sense, HRM means employing people, developing their resources, utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational requirement.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management

Critique: The definition describes the acquisation of employees to address the objectives of the company. This objectives help the firm to increase its position.

2.) Human Resource Management

Staffing function of the organization. It includes the activities of human resources planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and safety.

Source: http://www.crfonline.org/orc/glossary/h.html

Critique: The definition also describes the activities, plans of the firm with the help of the employee.


3.) Human Resource Management

The management of the workforce of a business to ensure sufficient staff levels with the right skills, properly rewarded and motivated.

Source: http://www.business2000.ie/resources/Glossary_H.html

Critique: We see that in a Human Resource Management the people are busy because this department is the home of the employee in the company. All the records and activities are all in Human Resource Management so by this we can see the importance of it.

4.) Human Resource Management

All methods and functions concerning the mobilization and development of personnel as human resources, with the objective of efficiency and greater productivity in a company, government administration, or other organization.

Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Management

Critique: The description explains the cycle of the Human Resource Management in the firm. It deals different things not only to the employee or the people inside the firm.

5.) Human Resource Management

The effective and efficient use of human resources available to the business. Also referred to as personnel management.

Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Management

Critique: We observed that in this definition personnel management is engaged because in Human Resource Management it has a person who is responsible to all transaction, activities and planning for the firm and that's the work of the personnel manager.