Scope and Practice of Human Resource Management

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Scope and Practice of Human Resource Management Question 1 Personnel Management and Human Resource Management (HRM) are very similar and many would say interchangeably, for example on help-wanted adverts or in job descriptions (.....). However this is not entirely true, although the difference may be very subtle they are slightly different. Personnel Management is defined as the “Administrative discipline of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organisation” (www.bd...). One of the defining features of personnel management is the tendency for personnel practise such as recruitment, payroll management and training to be structurally and procedurally separated from each other (.......). Human Resource Management (HRM) is defined as “Administrative activities associated with human resources planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, appraisal....” (www.bd....). HRM of an organisation is responsible for the move ‘overall’ management of the workforce in the organisation, i.e. coordinating the ‘activities’ of staff.

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