PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

  22:37    Rahul R

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Personnel management is defined as a set of programmes, functions and activities designed to maximize both personal and organizational goals

Features of Personnel Management

•       PM is concerned with employees, both as individuals, and as a group in attaining goals.

•       It is concerned with the development of human resources

•       PM covers all levels of employees and categories of employees. It covers both organized and unorganized employees

•       It applies to the employees in all types of organizations in the world

•       PM is a continuous process requiring constant reviewing, up gradation and integration

•       Aims at attaining the goals of an organization, individual working therein and society in an integrated way.

•       PM is a responsibility of all line managers and a function performed by staff managers across the organization

•       It is concerned with managing human resources at work

•       PM is the central sub-system of an organization

•       Pm aims at securing unreserved cooperation from all employees

Functions of Personnel Management

1. Managerial Functions

2. Operative Functions

1. Managerial Functions

a)      Planning

b)      Organizing

c)      Directing

d)      Controlling

2. Operative Functions

a)      Procurement functions

b)      Development

c)      Motivation and compensation

d)      Maintenance

e)      Integration function

f)       Emerging issues

b) Development

1. Training
2. Executive development
3. Career planning and Development
4. Human Resource Development

c) Motivation and Compensation

1. Job design
2. Work scheduling
3. Motivation
4. Job evaluation
5. Performance appraisal
6. Compensation and administration

                            Incentives and benefits

d) Maintenance

1. Health and safety
2. Employee welfare
3. Social security measures

e) Integration Function

1. Grievance redressal
2. Discipline
3. Teams and teamwork
4. Collective bargaining
5. Employee participation and empowerment
6. Trade unions and employee association
7. Industrial relations

f) Emerging Issues

1. Personnel records
2. Human Resource Audit
3. Human Resource Research
4. Human Resource Accounting (HRA)
5. Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
6. Stress and Counseling
7. International Human Resource Management