Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Personnel Management
Institution of Personnel Management, United Kingdom, has 
defined personnel management as follows:
“Personnel management is that part of management function 
which is primarily concerned with the human relationship, within the 
organization.  Its objective is the maintenance of those relationships on a 
basis which, by consideration of well being of the individual, enables all 
those engaged in the undertaking to make their maximum contribution 
to the effective working of that undertaking”.
The various points that emerge from the above definition are:
i) 
Personnel Administration is a management function.
ii) 
Primary consideration is human relationship.
iii) 
Focus is on the well-being of the people.
iv) 
Management is the development of people, not directing 
them.
v) 
Ultimate aim is to make the people contribute maximum 
to the organization.
HRM
Michael J. Jucins has defined human resources as “a whole 
consisting of inter-related, inter dependent and interacting physiological, 
psychological, sociological and ethical components.”
According to Leon C. Megginson, “From the national point of 
view, human resources are knowledge, skills, creative abilities, talents 
and attitudes obtained in the population; whereas from the view-point 
of individual enterprise, they represent the total of the inherent abilities, 
acquired knowledge and skills as exemplified in the talents and aptitudes 
of employees”.

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