Personnel management deals with the managerial function of estimating and classifying human resources requirements for meeting organizational goals through people at work and their relationships with each other.
Personnel Management
involves strategies that ensure right number of staff, a right combination of
talent, training, and performance in jobs.
According to Edwin B.
Flippo – “Personnel Management is the planning, organizing, directing, and
controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration and
maintenance and separation of personnel to the end that individual, organizational
and societal objectives are accomplished.”
Nature of Personnel
Management
- Personnel
management includes the function of employment, development and compensation-
These functions are performed primarily by the personnel management in
consultation with other departments.
- Personnel
management is an extension to general management. It is concerned with
promoting and stimulating competent work force to make their fullest
contribution to the concern.
- Personnel
management exist to advise and assist the line managers in personnel
matters. Therefore, personnel department is a staff department of an
organization.
- Personnel
management lays emphasize on action rather than making lengthy schedules,
plans, and work methods. The problems and grievances of people at work can
be solved more effectively through rationale personnel policies.
- It is based on
human orientation. It tries to help the workers to develop their potential
fully to the concern.
- It also
motivates the employees through its effective incentive plans so that the
employees provide fullest co-operation.
- Personnel
management deals with human resources of a concern. In context to human
resources, it manages both individual as well as blue- collar workers
Role of Personnel Manager
Personnel
manager is the head of personnel department. He performs both managerial and
operative functions of management. His role can be summarized as:
- Personnel
manager provides assistance to
top management- The top management are the people who decide and frame the
primary policies of the concern. All kinds of policies related to
personnel or workforce can be framed out effectively by the personnel
manager.
- He advices the line manager as a
staff specialist- Personnel manager acts like a staff advisor and assists
the line managers in dealing with various personnel matters.
- As a counsellor,- As a counsellor, personnel
manager attends problems and grievances of employees and guides them. He
tries to solve them in best of his capacity.
- Personnel
manager acts as a mediator- He
is a linking pin between management and workers.
- He acts as a spokesman- Since he is in direct
contact with the employees, he is required to act as representative of
organization in committees appointed by government. He represents company
in training programs.
Following are the elements
of Personnel Management:
- Organization- Organization is said to be the
framework of many activities taking place in view of goals available in a
concern. An organization can be called as a physical framework of various
interrelated activities. Right from manpower planning to employees’
maintenance, all activities take place within this framework. The nature
of the organization is dependent upon it’s goal. The business concern goal
being profit- making. Clubs, hospitals, schools, etc. their goal being
service. The objective of consultancy being providing sound advice.
Therefore, it is organizational structure on which the achievement of
goals of an enterprise depends upon. In personnel management, a manager
has therefore to understand the importance of organizational structure.
- Job- The second element, i.e., jobs
tell us the activities to be performed in the organization. It is said
that the goals of an enterprise can be achieved only through the
functional department in it. Therefore, seeing the size of organization
today, the nature of activities are changing. In addition to the three
primary departments, personnel and research department are new additions.
Various types of jobs available are :
- Physical jobs
- Creative jobs
- Proficiency
jobs
- Intellectual
jobs
- Consultancy
jobs
- Technical jobs
- People- The last and foremost element in
personnel management is people. In a organizational structure, where the
main aim is to achieve the goals, the presence of manpower becomes vital.
Therefore, in order to achieve departmental goals, different kinds of
people with different skills are appointed. People form the most important
element because :
- The
organizational structure is meaningless without it.
- It helps to
achieve the goals of the enterprise.
- It helps in
manning the functional areas.
- It helps in
achieving the functional departmental goals.
- They make a
concern operational.
- They give life
to a physical organization.
The
different types of people which are generally required in a concern are :
- Physically fit
people
- Creative people
- Intellectuals
- Technical
people
- Proficient and
skilled people
In
personnel management, a personnel manager has to understand the relationship of
the three elements and their importance in organization. He has to understand
basically three relationships:-
- Relationship
between organization and job
- Relationship
between job and people
- Relationship
between people and organization.
Relationship
between organization and job helps making a job effective and significant.
Relationship between job and people makes the job itself important.
Relationship between people and organization gives due importance to
organizational structure and the role of people in it.
Functions of Personnel Management
Following
are the four functions of Personnel Management: