what are the differences between personnel management and human resource management?

Question

Manny thanks

Answer 1

Hiya,

Basically this one is rather an oxymoron. Personnel management was the politically correct term used by most large organizations that dealt with most of the people who worked for that organization. Personnel departments normally did rather routine tasks such as payroll, salaries, attendance, time cards, employee insurance, and some big ones acted as liaisons for management and employees and unions.

Human Resources encapsulates everything that is mentioned in the personnel management description; however, with a bit of flare, and a whole load of other responsibilities vis-a-vie employee counseling, stock options, pension planning, actual interviewing for job placement, and membership to the Society of Human Resource Managers, there really is basically nothing different whatsoever.

Now the distinction between the two is growing wider. Personnel management deals with a more individualized approach which eventually leads to such positions as agents, bookers, basically, less people but a closer relationship.

Human resources is really macro in size; although, there are more issues to address anytime when working with people, human resources normally refers to employee business on the bigger scale.

Human resources became the politically correct way of addressing Earth's most valuable resource…the human being. Its spin I know; yet, which sounds better to you? (The real truth: There really is very little difference.)

Answer 2

They are syonymous. In the 1980s the term "human resources" was originally brought in as a politically correct alternative to the personnel function of "manpower planning" ("man" being a contentious word then). Very soon HR came to cover the entire spectrum of personnel administration (e.g. recruitment & selection, discipline & grievances etc.).

I don't like the HR term, because it puts me at the same level as all the other assets of the organisation (land & buildings, plant & machinery, fixtures & fittings, cash at hand and in bank etc.). I mean ... would the venetian blinds, where I work, ever get 10 points for the best answer in Yahoo?

Answer 3

They are the same. Human Recources is the PC version of Personnel

Answer 4

Personell management handle people,human resource handle the stuff that people need.