Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

WHAT ARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT?

Personnel management means the traditional administrative functions of keeping personnel records and managing an employer’s payroll. It is tactical in focus. It is also compliance-oriented, focused on ensuring employer compliance with governmental laws, rules, and regulations and employee compliance with an employer’s policies and work rules.

Human resource management (HRM) is more strategic in its orientation than personnel management. It goes beyond personnel management to ensure that the organization’s people are recruited, selected, managed, and developed in line with the organization’s strategic objectives, not just applicable rules and regulations. Human resource management ...