HRM PROJECT
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
LO 1 Understand the difference between personnel management and human resources management
1.1 Distinguish between Personnel management and human resource management……………………………………………………………………………………………..
1.2 Assess the function of the human resource management in contributing to organizational purposes
1.3 Evaluate the role and responsibilities of line managers in human resource management……………………………………………………………………………………
1.4 Analyse the impact of the legal and regulatory framework on human resource management…………………………………………………………………………..
LO 2 Understand how to recruit employees
2.1 Analyse the reasons for human resource planning
HRM is a series of activities which include; four key policy goals that can achieved strategic integration(fit) between HR and Business Planning.HR policies and Practices must reflect in the management of people and it systems such as investment in high quality employees. High commitment and flexibility is associated with management practices such as teambuilding, empowerment, involvement and the creation of strong cultural values with a unitarist approach to employee relations. The diagram below illustrates the comparisons between the two contexts.

Old assumptions ( Personnel Management)
New assumptions (HRM)
Reactive, piecemeal, interventions in response to specific problems
Proactive, system-wide interventions, with emphasis on fit, linking HRM with strategic planning and cultural change
People are a variable cost
People are social capital, capable of development
Self-interest dominates, conflict between stakeholders (pluralist perspective)
Co-incidence of interest between stakeholders can be developed (unitary perspective)
Seeks power advantages for bargaining and confrontation
Seeks power equalisation for trust and collaboration
Control of information flow to enhance efficiency, power
Open channels of communication to build trust, commitment
Relationship orientation
Goal orientation
Control from the top
Participation and informed choice

1.2 assess the functions of the human resource management in