Hi Vidya,
The activities of personnel and HR are very wide. For that matter, HR has no boundaries at all. Whatever you do for the people, for the welfare of the people, it becomes HR. Wherever people exist, HR exists.
As far as an organization is concerned, the personnel activities consist of some traditional activities related to employees. They are:
- Maintenance of attendance
- Time office
- Overtime
- Maintenance of personnel files
- Welfare functions like the canteen, supply of uniforms, shoes, etc.
- Statutory duties like remittance of ESI, PF, professional tax
- Factory liaison activities like half-yearly returns, annual returns, list of holidays, labor welfare fund, pressure vessel testing, hoists and lifts testing, building stability certificate, crane certificates, factory license and renewals, plan approvals, registration, maintenance of statutory registers, first aid boxes, first aid centers, etc.
HR functions include:
- Recruitment and selection
- Training and development
- Performance appraisal
- Employee retention
- Absenteeism monitoring and control
- Exit interviews
- HR policies and procedures
- Succession planning
- System streamlining
- Budgeting, and so on.
Hope you must have understood the difference between HR and personnel activities. For further clarification, feel free to ask via my email provided below.
Regards,
R Devarajan
Email: deva_1970@rediffmail.com