Funtions of Personal Management

1. Managerial Function

a) Planning

Planning is regard to the human resource function involves deliberate determination of

objectives, planning of human resource requirements, recruitment, selection, training etc. It
also involves forecasting of personnel need, changing values, attitudes and behavior of
employee and their impact of organisation.

b) Organisation

Organising function is a process by which group of human being allocates its tasks among its
members identifies relationships and integrates its functions towards the achievement of
common goal. It calls designing the structure of relationship among jobs through delegation
of authority, communication and accountability, manpower planning, managing job positions
and providing physical facilities. Thus organising establishes relationships among the
employees so that they can collectively contribute to the attainment of the organisational
goals.

c) Directing

Directing as a managerial function involves building sound industrial and human relations
among people working in the personnel area of organisation. It includes leading motivating,
communicating, guiding and reorienting personnel job for their better performance towards
accomplishing organisational objectives. The personnel manager has to coordinate various
managers different levels as for as personnel functions and concerned.

d) Controlling

Controlling function is concerned with regulating in accordance with the personnel plans in
respect of operating goals. It includes checking, verifying and comparing actuals with the
plans, identifying deviations if any and correcting them. Thus operations are adjusted to
predetermined plans and standard through taking corrective measures. Auditing, training
programmers, analysing, labor turnover records, directing morale surveys, conducting
separate interviews are some of the means for controlling the personnel management
function.

2. Operative Functions

The operative functions of personnel management deals with specific activities as

(1) Procurement, (2) Development, (3) Compensation, (4) Integration, (5) Maintenance and
(6) Human relations

(1) Procurement

Procurement is concerned with the obtaining of the proper quality and quantity of personnel
necessary to accomplish objectives and functions of an organisation. It also includes the
determination of human resources requirements and their recruitment, selection and
placement.

(2) Development

Development deals with increasing the skill and competence of those personnel through
training and other programs. Management development it future oriented and concerned
with education. These activities attempt to instill sound reasoning process to enhance one's
ability to understand and interpret knowledge - rather than imparting a body of facts or
teaching a specific set of motor skills. Development, therefore focuses more on the
employee's personal growth.

(3) Compensation

Compensation provides for their adequate and equitable remuneration in order to secure
their best contribution to the achievement of the organisation's objectives. Fixation of
compensation or wage rates for different categories of employees in a cooperative society is
an important task of management. The employees are not only concerned with wages
received but also concerned with the level of wages received by same level of employees in
similar societies. The relative wage rules should be fixed carefully, because they have
implications for promotion, transfer, seniority and other important personnel matters.

(4) Integration

The basic objective of manpower management is to secure maximum performance from the
employees willingly to accomplish the objectives of an organisation. This is possible through
better integration between the organisation and its employees. An effective integration
between the two is the function of three things-motivation, leadership and communication. In
recent years the human relation exponents have revolutionised the ways and means of
dealing with employees for greater performance and productivity. Hence, managerial job has
become more complicated and challenging.

(5) Maintenance

In refers to maintaining the abilities and attitudes already created and improving the
conditions established through health safety, welfare and benefits programs.