Personnel Management

Definition of Personnel Management

Obtaining, using and maintaining a satisfied workforce. It is concerned with employees at work and with their relationship within the organization

Function of Personnel Management

  1. Managerial Functions
Planning

This involves deliberate determination of objectives, planning of human resource requirements such as recruitment, selection, and training. It also involves forecasting of personnel needs, changing values, attitudes and behaviour of employees and their impact of the organization.

Organization

This involves establishing an intentional structure of roles for people in an organization. The structure considers chain of command, division of labour and assignment of responsibility. The end result will be a relationship will be established among the employees so that they can contribute collectively towards attainment of the organization goals.

Directing

This involves directing all the organization resources towards a common goal. Directing will ensure maximum employee contribution and also ensure coordination between the different departments.

Staffing

The process of obtaining and maintaining a capable and competent work force. It covers manpower planning, recruitment, placement, induction and orientation, transfer, career progression, promotion and separation.

Controlling

This involves the measurement of performance against goals and plans and to identify deviations and placing the process back on track.

  2. Operative functions

These are further classified into four:

    • Employment
    • Development
    • Compensation
    • Employee Relations

Employment

This involves procuring and employing individuals with suitable knowledge, skills, experience and aptitude necessary to perform various tasks. This includes functions such as: job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment, selection, placement and induction.

Training and development

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