Personnel Specification. Interview Questions

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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT |

Personnel Specification. Interview Questions |

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5/28/2009 |

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Scenario 1

1. Personnel Management and HR Management

Your line manager is interested in the work you are doing on this business and management course. She is particular interested in the module covering Human Resource Management, as she is thinking of looking at a new role within the HR side of the business in the near future. She has asked for your help, and specifically would like you to provide her with some information that will enable her to address the following:

“A comment was made at a senior management meeting the other day, that our company is suffering in the marketplace, as we take a personnel management approach rather than a HRM approach. I am not sure what the difference is. Could you fill me in on the background to what personnel management is, and how HRM both compares with and differs from personnel management.”

REPORT TO : LINE MANAGER

REPORT FROM : NATALIA POURICHKO

DATE : 25 MAY 2009

TITLE: PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND HR MANAGEMENT

Purpose of Report

The purpose of this report is to provide the line manager with overview of Personnel Management and HRM and to investigate how HRM both compares with and differs from Personnel Management.

Introduction

Some experts assert that there is no difference between human resources and personnel management. They state that the two terms can be used interchangeably, with no difference in meaning and maintain that the most obvious change is a “re-labelling process” (Legge, 2005 p. 108).

Both managers and academics have recognised the problem of indentifying clear differences between personnel management and HRM (Legge, 2005 p.108). To understand the difference between HR Management and Personnel management, we need to look at its focus, its strategies, and the people who comprise it.

What is Personnel Management?

The classic definition...