Personnel administration

The Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration

1. PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION The Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration Ilagan, Creselda M.

2. What is Personnel Administration? It could be considered as the most important field of administration. It could be viewed as the totality of concern with human resources on an organization. (Stahl, 1971) It deals principally with the recruitment of employees for organization positions (including promotions and transfers from one position to another), with the separation of employees from the organization by retirement, dismissal, or resignation, with the training of employees, with their salaries and wages, and their health, safety, and welfare. (Simon et al, p.312)

3. Approaches to Personnel Administration Merit system Spoils system Emergency employment Veteran preference Equitable allocation of employment

4. Personnel management is concerned with the development of policies governing: Manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement and termination Education and training, career development Terms of employment, methods and standards of remuneration Working conditions and employees' services Formal and informal communication and consultation both through the representatives of employers and employees and at all levels throughout the organization Negotiation and application of agreements on wages and working conditions, procedures for the avoidance and settlement of disputes.

5. Personnel Administration aims for: Effective utilization of human resources Desirable working relations among all members of the organization Maximum development Meeting the organization’s social and legal responsibilities

6. Elements of a Well-balanced Personnel Program Development of a sound organization Systematic and flexible position classification Well-conceived recruitment plan Sound system of selection Comprehensive in-service training programs Satisfactory plan for the periodic evaluation of the efficiency of the employees Plan of promotions based on the merits Constant efforts to improve the human relations skills of supervisors Program for maintaining the morale and discipline of the employees

7. Is the career civil service system in the Philippines adequate ? YES

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