Definitions of Human Resource Management and Personnel Management (with some authors, writers and references)

1st definition:

The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. Usually small businesses (for-profit or nonprofit) have to carry out these activities themselves because they can't yet afford part- or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have -- and are aware of -- personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have.

Author: Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD
http://www.managementhelp.org/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm

2nd definition:

In any organization, there has to be someone concerned with the welfare and performance of persons who are a part of the operation. When an individual or a team of individuals takes on this task of seeing to programs and setting policies that impact everyone associated with the company, they are engaged in the process of personnel management, sometimes referred to as human resources management.

One aspect of company organization that definitely requires the input of effective personnel management is the drafting of a company handbook. Establishing operation policies and procedures, requirements for employment, commendation and disciplinary procedures, guidelines for dismissals and promotions, and even something as simple as a dress code has to be compared with state and federal guidelines before the handbook is ready for release to the company at large. Personnel managers and the HR staff are ideal for drafting and reviewing the company handbook.

Written by: Malcolm Tatum
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-personnel-management.htm

3rd definition:

Human Resource Management is based on ideas and techniques developed to enhance worker motivation, productivity and performance.

The HRM model emphasises:

* the need to search for new ways of working
* the central role of managers in promoting change
* the treatment of workers as individuals rather than part of a collective workforce
* the encouragement of workers to consider management as 'partners' rather than as opponents - 'us and us', rather than 'us and them'

http://www.humanresourcemanagement.co.uk/resourcemanagement.htm

4th definition:

Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of specialist personnel and human resource management advisory services to departments, and the development and implementation of a relevant, coherent and modern framework of employment policies and practices throughout the University.

Each member of Personnel Management is responsible for the provision of these services to a number of departments. This distribution is known as the Personnel Management Portfolio.

Personnel Management is also responsible for the delivery of the Human Resource Strategy and associated programmes of work.

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/personnel/management/index.php

5th definition:

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business.[1] The terms "human resource management" and "human resources" (HR) have largely replaced the term "personnel management" as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations.[1] Human Resource management is evolving rapidly. Human resource management is both an academic theory and a business practice that addresses the theoretical and practical techniques of managing a workforce.

".......those decisions and actions which concern the management of employees at all levels in the business and which are related to the implementation of strategies directed towards creating and sustaining competitive advantage"

author: While Miller (1987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management