What exactly is the difference between Human Resource Management and Personnel Management?

Question

Bit lost here, thought they were the same?No?

Answer 1

That is a good question for the people who are in each. They probably believe there is a difference but for the rest of us it is the same thing.

Answer 2

There is no difference. A long time ago the word personnel was used. Then HR or human resources became the politically correct term. I still see personnel a lot in state jobs, government jobs, school jobs etc where change is slow.

Answer 3

HRM is seen by practitioners in the field as a more innovative view of workplace management than the traditional approach. Its techniques force the managers of an enterprise to express their goals with specificity so that they can be understood and undertaken by the workforce, and to provide the resources needed for them to successfully accomplish their assignments. As such, HRM techniques, when properly practiced, are expressive of the goals and operating practices of the enterprise overall.

Nowadays, the more traditional synonyms such as personnel management are often used in a more restricted sense to describe those activities that are necessary in the recruiting of a workforce, providing its members with payroll and benefits, and administrating their work-life needs. These activities can require regulatory knowledge and effort, and enterprises can benefit from the recruitment and development of personnel with these specific skills.

Answer 4

HUMAN RESOURCE management mainly deals with recruitment training motivation of the human resource. but in case of personnel managment it is more to the legal side of human resource. for example legal way to protect the workforce from the management , to get their rights , to provide the proper working conditions etc ,

Answer 5

One has 2 letters in its abbreviation and the other has 3.

Answer 6

Just a flowery way of saying the same thing!!!

Answer 7

they're the same