Assignment 10 HRM

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


Personnel management:


1.) The function of a personnel manager usually begins with the staffing process.

Critique:

It determines how the company works. It also includes their own policies or procedures on how it works or setting their policies. When we say staffing process it includes the counseling sessions (time).

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

2.) The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has the overall responsibility of administering the state's personnel system and establishing necessary policies, procedures and regulations to ensure system uniformity in accordance with state and federal law.

Critique:

Responsible for managing the organization and to assist. To provide opportunities for employees who are in need of counseling to receive support from the company.

http://www.arkansas.gov/dfa/personnel_mgmt/opm_index.html

3.) Personnel Management is the leader in outsourced human resources management.

Critique:

In all organizations, there should be someone concerned with the welfare and performance of persons who are a part of the operation.

http://www.hrpmsi.com/


4.) The Personnel Management Department mission is to provide efficient and effective personnel management to city departments which empower the users and facilitate the delivery of city services to the community.

Critique:

The needs of the company at each point in its growth, management can readily see to the addition to the Human Resources team over time. The department should provide resourceful or professionals in order to have a good service.

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

5.) Personnel management as simply an at need re-allocation of resources from one place to another according to the demands of the market for the product.

Critique:

As a company grows, it may be necessary to expand from a single personnel manager to a full-fledged personnel management.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070812185853AABvmx4



Human resource management:

1.) HR (Human Resource) Management
This is the science of allocating human resources among various projects or business units, maximizing the utilization of available personnel resources to achieve business goals.

Critique:

It includes the financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT). The efficient and effective deployment of an organization's personnel resources where and when they are needed, and in possession of the tools, training and skills required by the work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_management

2.) 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.

Critique:

Performing the activities that are necessary in the maintenance of that workforce through identification of staffing requirements, planning and oversight of payroll and benefits, education and professional development, and administering their work-life needs.

3.) Human resource management is responsible for how people are treated in organizations.

Critique:

It is accountable for getting people into the business or organization, by helping them in performing their work. And should have the potential to do the work. Organizational change impacts not only the business but also its employees.

http://www.answers.com/topic/human-resource-management

4.) Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by line managers.

Critique:

It deals with the managing the organization that provides their needs within the business. Also the performances of the organization. Human resources management can also be performed by line a manager that focuses on learning the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required to initially perform a job or task or to improve upon the performance of a current job or task

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

5.) Human Resource Management has been rapidly evolving to address newly emerging and increasingly complex areas of responsibility within the profession.

Critique:

This is to notify that the human resource management has been rising. The specialists are working with these challenges in the organization. It provides a modern, complete, and practical basis in the most important functions of the human resource manager and prepares students to pursue a professional career in this challenging and rewarding field.


http://www.extension.ucsb.edu/certificates/HR.pdf