1A. DEFINITIONS
Personnel Management is an administrative task which involves hiring and developing employees who in the future become valuable to the organization. It involves conducting job analysis, planning personnel needs and recruitment, selecting the right applicants for the job, orientation and training, set and managing wages and salaries, provide benefits and incentives, performance appraisal, resolve dispute, and communicate with all employees at all levels. Human resources management is the process of carrying out the administrative task in Personnel management.
MAJOR DIFFERENCES
• Personnel Management is the administrative task while Human Resources Management is the process driven.
• Human Resources Management has all the Personnel Management features along with qualities such as broad knowledgeof the industry, Leadership, and superb negotiating skills
1B. EXTERNAL CHALLENGES
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For a management position this job design proves to be the perfect method because it guides managers on their very specific roles. It attempts to advance employee motivation by putting together specified parts of the work back in order for one person to produce an entire product or service (Gomes-Mejia, Balkin&Gardy, 2010, 89).
Job enlargement which involves combining formerly fragmented duties and responsibilities into one job helps in increasing diversity and significance of a repetitive job. It is crucial in relieving monotony and developing skills. Job enlargement strives to reduce the number of tasks in a given job. It aims at increasing skill variety. In addition, improvement of job identity is achieved when the employee accomplishes an entire and identifiable piece of job. This can be an appropriate job design for a managerial position as it will enable the managers to develop new skills to accomplish a whole piece of work(Gomes-Mejia, Balkin&Gardy, 2010,
What job re-design opportunities are available to foster a healthier and more productive workplace? In order to answer this question we adopt job and work design theory that will analyze her role and provide tangible solutions. The following three ¡®Job Design Approaches¡¯ will be explored: 1) Job rotation 2) Job enrichment 3) Teamworking.
It is a fundamental HRM activity and plays the key role in deciding on the actual job structure which is, “identifying the relevant tasks and activities and allocating them across employees in a way that allows the organization to reap benefits from specialization”, but also bundle job tasks in order to use possible synergies between the different tasks (Foss, Minbaeva, Pedersen & Reinholt, 2009, p.873). There are two major approaches to job design, these are the job enrichment approach “which attempts to make the job more interesting, challenging, and significant by adding dimensions such as variety, autonomy, feedback, and control” and the job engineering approach “which attempts to make jobs more efficient by improving work methods, tools, and task-goal structure through activities such as time-and-motion studies and goal setting” (Umstot, Bell & Mitchell, 1976,
To be satisfied with one’s job, they must have optimistic feelings surrounding the job they are in, along with the physiognomies associated with it (Kroeger, Thuesen, Rutledge, 2002, p. 83). Not every single part of a job is always desirable, however, if the majority of responsibilities adequately challenge and stimulate, the job will, more often than not, satisfy the employee (Robbins, Judge, 2009, p. 84).
Nowadays, Good managers are not only effective in their use of economic and technical resources, but when they manage people they remember that these particular resources are special, and are ultimately the most important assets. On this occasion, this report is written to explain the reason why Personnel Management has changed to Human Resource Management and how the functions and roles of Human Resource Department differ from Personnel Department.
Human resource management (HRM) encompasses the activities of acquiring, maintaining, and developing the organization's employees (human resources). "The traditional view of these activities focuses on planning for staffing needs, recruiting and selecting of employees, orienting and training staff, appraising their performance, providing compensations and benefits, and making their career movement and development." HRM involves two aspects:...
Employee benefits coordinator play a significant role in Human Resource Management. Employee Benefits coordinators are responsible for assisting with employee benefits, maintaining employee data base, managing all insurance billings and maintain employee files, sick pay, vacation and retirement. This study explores the importance of employee benefits to corporations, government agencies and non profit organizations. This paper also researches the effects on the management team and on individual employees’.
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Human resource is the most valuable and unique asset of an organization. The successful management of an organization’s human resource is an exciting, dynamic and challenging task , especially at a time when the world has become a global village and economies are in a state of flux. The lack of talented resource and the growing expectation of the modern day employee has further increased the difficulty of the human resource function.
The second approach of the Top-Down is identified as Job Enlargement. First used in the 1940s as a complaint of work done through the usage of the Scientific Management. This approach involves adding variety to the different jobs by combining specialized tasks with a hint of difficulty. Job Enlargement should work as an addition to other motivational methods, because by itself it has no positive effect on job performance.
Human resource management is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. The terms "human resource management" and "human resources" (HR) have largely replaced the term "personnel management" as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations. Human Resource management is evolving rapidly. Human resource management is both an academic theory and a business practice that addresses the theoretical and practical techniques of managing a workforce. (1)
Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally another name for personnel management. It is the process of making sure the employees are as creative as they can be. HRM is a way of grouping the range of activities associated with managing people that are variously categorised under employee relations, industrial/labour relations, personnel management and organisational behaviour. Many academic departments where research and teaching in all these areas take place have adopted the title department of human resources management. HRM is a coordinated approach to managing people that seeks to integrate the various personnel activates so that they are compatible with each other. Therefore the key areas of employee resourcing, employee development, employee reward and employee involvement are considered to be interrelated. Policy-making and procedures in one of these areas will have an impact on other areas, therefore human resources management is an approach that takes a holistic view and considers how various areas can be integrated.
Human resource management (HRM) processes are crucial to the success of an acute care hospital facility. In this paper, I will give insight on how HRM processes have to align with the organizations goals and objectives in order to operate successfully. Hiring, training and benefits are a few of the major roles that human resources control in an organization. Therefore, it is important that human resource managers are abreast of all current policies and procedures.
The main purpose of Human Resource Management is to increase the effectiveness and contribution of employee’s attainment of organizational goals and objective (Youssef, C.). Many areas of HRM have been discussed in this course. Those areas are EEO and Affirmative action, Human resource planning, recruitment, and selection, Human resource development, compensation and benefits, safety and health, and employee and labor relations. All these categories have an impact on how an organization is managed. Although there are many things that impact a business, the most important thing about managing a business is selecting the right people to help the company succeed.
Businesses recruit staff to expand the business objectives and change job roles within the business due to new skills and new
Personnel management encompasses a deep interest in the well-being of an organization’s personnel as well as their execution of tasks assigned to them. Its main aim is ensuring that employees have a sense of satisfaction. Personnel management tasks include training, selection and hiring, motivation, rewards, compensation among others. Personnel managers, in collaboration with other sections in the organization are mainly involved in execution of these tasks (Ingram, 2008, p.160).