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Lesson 3 Distinctions between Management in General, Personnel Management and Human Resource Management

Figure 3 As we can see from the diagram general management, personnel management and Human resource management are all inter-related but distinct on their nature and scope. In the diagram, we can see that general management includes all the resources found in an organization which enumerated as minutes, methods, man, money, machine, material and market. In general management covers six areas of concerns. These are the following: 1. Production or service management- this deals with product design, and managing production operations or service delivery operations. 2. Marketing management-deals with marketing research, the Ps of marketing and public image building. 3. Financial management- deals with fund source mobilization, managing use of funds and earnings, and financial forecasting. 4. Human resource management-deals with managing human capital and knowledge management. 5. External relations management- deals with corporate social responsibility and managing linkages and network. 6. Strategic management- deals with the analysis, decisions, and actions undertaken by decision makers and/or governing board of the organization to create and sustain competitive advantages.(p. 10)

(Source: Management Concepts And Approaches: Open University, Benguet State University, 2010. ) Human resource management then is a part of general management whose concentration is only on the man aspect of an organization. Now under the human resource management is personnel management (see the diagram). According to our book, the term personnel management, is used to describe the process used in managing the work force but has been replaced by the terms Human Resource Management. (p.8) The reason for this is brought by the following comparison between Personnel And Human Resource Management: COMPARISON BETWEEN PERSONNEL AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SCOPE MANAGEMENT 1. People involved Officer), line PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT limited to rank and file HUMAN RESOURCE includes the CEO (Chief Executive Manager staff, consultants and other resource person 2. Working hours time workers 8 hours/day; 5days/week includes the part timers and flexiincludes informal work settings seminar halls, golf fairways broader and greater separate and headed by Human hired specialists and scientists, social science staff report directly to general

3. Working place report in their formal work such as: restaurants, settings 4. Functions fewer and repetitive

5. In charge general administration/CEO Resource Manager 6. Staffing mainly based on CEOs professionals such as: behavioral ability and specialty researchers, psychologists 7. Level of management Reporting staff might be with the administrative, finance or Production managers

8. Goals better in actual

both aims to attain similar objectives however HRM proven management practices

9. Technology content-oriented development oriented control-oriented reactive 10. Strategies to caprices and personal and subjective

socio-technical approach, participatory, flexible proactive objective, scientific, less prone prejudices

11. Philosophy people oriented but tends and individual goals to prioritize the welfare of company owners and managers

tends to achieve organization (see. Figure 4 below)