Personnel Management
Personnel Management
By
P.Umamaheswarrao
Definition of personnel management:
• “The personnel function is concerned with the procurement,
development, compensation, integration, and maintenance of the
personnel of an organization for the purpose of contributing
towards the accomplishment of that organization’s major goals or
objectives. Therefore, personnel management is the planning,
organizing, directing, and controlling of the performance of those
operative functions”
• “Personnel management is that part of management process
which is primarily concerned with the human constituents of an
organization”
• Functions of personnel management:
Basic managerial functions- planning, Organizing, Motivating and
controlling are common to all managers including personnel
managers and are performed by all of them. That is why it is said
that general management and the personnel management are one
and the same.
The operative functions of personnel management are as under:
1. Procurement
2. Development
3. Compensation
4. Integration
5. Maintenance
6. Records research and audit.
• Procurement is mainly concerned with the hiring of personnel- the
right people, in the right place, at the right time. This function
deals specifically with such subjects as the determination of
manpower requirement and their recruitment, selection and
placement
• Development pertains to the training and education of the hired
personnel, their morale building, effective communication
network, promotion and transfer plans, suggestions system and
similar other plans.
• Compensation deals with the methods and standards of
remuneration with emphasis upon such activities as job evaluation,
wage system, monetary incentives and terms of employment
• Integration is concerned with the attempt to bring about a
reasonable reconciliation of individual and organizational interests.
Negotiations with labour unions, collective bargaining, human and
social implications of change etc are some of the subjects which
constitute this function
• Maintenance function aims at maintaining good working
conditions(health and safety measures) in and favorable attitudes
towards the organization.
• Records, research and audit are the final group of operative
functions. Record- keeping is necessary both for exercising control
over personnel activities and for doing research. Personnel audit
helps to evaluate the effectiveness of various personnel policies
and procedures and indicates a further course of action.