SUMMARY

This chapter addressed important questions, such as:
• What are personnel management and human resource management?
• What do practitioners in the HR field traditionally do, and how are their roles changing?
• What is organization development as it relates to HR?
• What do practitioners in the OD field traditionally do, and how are their roles changing?
• Why are the two fields converging, and what are the implications of that convergence?

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