Personnel management: Plans & Strategies

It is widely believed that the role of managers is becoming a key determinant for enterprises' competitiveness in today's knowledge economy era. Personnel Management or Human Resource Management (HRM) is a critically important issue within any organization's Management Framework .Personnel Management is a planned approach to managing people effectively for performance. It aims to establish a more open, flexible and caring management style so that personnel will be motivated, developed and managed in a way that they can and will give of their best to support departments' missions. (Bergenhenegouwen, Ten Horn and Mooijman, 1996). Human Resource Management (HRM) or more specifically competence management is an important function of knowledge management because it reasons about an organization's most important resource - the knowledge and skills of its staff. (Dittmann, L. 2003). Typically such functions as staffing, project staffing, human resources development and more are supported by competence management, i.e. the reasoning about availability and absence of required competencies both on the level of an organization as well as on the level of individual members of the organization.