Human resource management and Personnel management

PART I: Introduction The relationship between human resource management and personnel management has been arguing for many years. The strongest argument among all the advocates is whether human resource management is the same as personnel management only with another name or it is different concept. Some debates are as follow: Approval perspectiveCritical perspective Guest: its capacity to satisfy some key propositions such as 'strategy integration', 'high commitment', 'high quality' and 'flexibility'. Pettigrew and Hendry: HRM …

…ization's strategy. There are two main models for making strategic HRM policies: best practice model and contingency model. In this paper, the analyzing of the case depends on the 'best practice' model. Although this approach may be mechanistic and over simplifies things. But it is effective in improving the organization's performance. So HRM is different from personnel management. And in practice, Strategic HRM as the advantaged HRM integrates the HRM practices into organization's strategy effectively.