Look for various definitions of personnel management and human resource management and their authors and sources (minimum of 5). Critique each.
By: David E. Guest Human resource management (HRM) comprises a set of policies designed to maximize organizational integration, employee commitment, flexibility and quality of work. Within this model, collective industrial relations have, at best, only a minor role. Despite the apparent attractions of HRM to managements, there is very little evidence of any quality about its impact. Furthermore very few UK organizations appear to practise a distinctive form of HRM, although many are moving slowly in that direction through, for example, policies of employee involvement. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119470885/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 -----I don't agree with him that There is a "little evidence of any quality" about its impact, because the impact of HRM in this generation is really effective. By:Ryan Allis Personnel management is concerned with the effective use of the skills of people. They may be salespeople in a store, clerks in an office, operators in