Difference Between Personnel Management and Human Resources Management

1.  Personnel management is traditional approach of managing people where as HRM is a modern approach .
2. Personnel management focuses on personnel administration, employee's welfare and labor relation where as HRM focuses on acquisition, development, motivation and maintenance of the resources.
3. Personnel management assumes people as an input for achieving desired output where as HRM assumes people as an important and valuable resources for achieving desired output.
4. Under personnel management personnel function is for employees satisfaction where as under HRM it is for goal achievement.
5. In personnel management employees are provided less training  and development opportunities where as in HRM employees are provided more training and development opportunities.
6. In personnel management decisions are made by top management where as in HRM decisions are made collectively after considering employees participation, authority, decentralization, competitive environment.
7. Personnel management is concerned with personnel manager whereas HRM is concerned with all level of managers from top to bottom.
8. Personnel management is the routine function since the line mangers directly take major recruitment and selection function since it focuses on human resources for long run direction and scope.