Look for various definitions of personnel management and human resource management and their authors and sources (minimum of 5). Critique each.

1st:

HUman Resource Management

by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD

The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies.

URL:
http://www.managementhelp.org/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm

:suspect: my comment: the autorhs definition on the human resource management had cater all the possible meaning of the HRM, i believe that if all HR manager has read his definition would certainly realize that managing the HR dept. is not just managing employees but also caring for the employees

2nd:

(Cherrington, 1995, p. 5).

Human resource management is responsible for how people are treated in organizations. It is responsible for bringing people into the organization, helping them perform their work, compensating them for their labors, and solving problems that arise"


comment: the human Resources management as defined by the author is the main instrument in bringing human resources and the working environment together. The HR dept. is the one that motivates human resources to work.

3rd:
Source:http://www.ci.palm-coast.fl.us/government/departments/employment/personnelmanagement.aspx

author: unknown

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.

comment: personnel management practically is under the human resource management, personnel management 's specific meaning in this definition is it is the governing body that implements policies and strategies to maintain the objectives in each dept. it is the governing body that makes the guidelines for employees to abide.
4th:
source:http://www.humanresourcemanagement.co.uk/resourcemanagement.htm

author:unknown

What Is HRM?


Human Resource Management is based on ideas and techniques developed to enhance worker motivation, productivity and performance.
The HRM model emphasises:


the need to search for new ways of working
the central role of managers in promoting change
the treatment of workers as individuals rather than part of a collective workforce
the encouragement of workers to consider management as 'partners' rather than as opponents - 'us and us', rather than 'us and them'

comment: i think the one of the real main goal of the HR dept. is to motivate employees to work, to make the work place enjoyable rather than stressing. To gain peers in the workplace.


5th:

source: http://www.taleo.com/research/g-personnel-management-11.php

author: unknown

Personnel Management
A personnel management system allows human resource team to manage the best candidate for each open job requisition. The personnel management solution also provides templates that can be used to standardize personnel management communication.


comment: hmmmm... i don't think so...personnel management is more on to making policies for the best of the organization.