Comparison between Personnel Management and Human Resource Management

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

1. Comparison between Personnel Management and
Human Resource Management
The confusion always arises that both the term
personnel management (PM) and human resource
management (HRM) are the synonyms. But there are
some differences between these two terms. The
differences are as follows:

Cont.
Basis Personnel Management Human Resource
Management
Meaning This is the traditional system
of managing people in the
organization.
This considers as the modern
approach for managing people
and their strengths.
Nature This term is pluralist in nature. This is unitarist in nature.
Key relations The main focus is on
management of labour.
The focus point is customer.
Level of trust The trust level low not so
high.
The trust level is very high.

Perspective of planning The perspective of manager
for planning is reactive.
The manager believes in
integrated and proactive
perspective for planning.
Role of management Transactional role has
adopted.
Management focuses on
transformational role.
Basis for Job design For designing job division of
labour is to be done.
First consider the teams then
design the job accordingly.
Reward system The rewards are based on
achieving set targets or
standards.
Here the overall performance
is to be evaluated and not
restrict up-to the set targets, at
the time of rewarding.