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The abbreviation EMI stands for
Employment, Management and
Improvement, which are the three essential functions of the department of
Personnel Management (PM) of any organization. PM
carries the most important characteristics of
personal dimensions of an individual besides
financial, technical and social compulsions.
Every person follows a genealogical process of self-liberation because right from the time
of Adam and Eve, human beings are under bondage which lineage continues even today as a
bio-social patronage. PM has the unique function
of maintaining a high level of interactive process
of interpersonal relations although an individual person has an innate intrapersonal
behavioral influence with its overwhelming dominance
on the person itself. One's behavior is one's
signature identification for others. Simultaneously,
inter-group relationships do exist in the
organization which too has a commanding influence
and strong coordinating effect on the functions of
PM. Through the intervention of PM, it is the employees who steer the organization to
success or failure.
Success means joy and continuation, failure is closure and sad farewell. Sense of
belongingness with the organization is a connecting link
for individual success which, in turn, reflects on
the organizational success.
In PM the prime focus is on the person, whereas in Human Resource Management (HRM), it is
on the resources. HRM treats a human being as a resource similar to money, materials,
machines, maintenance and methods. In my opinion, PM
is the best title because persons are managed. A person is the source of all other resources that
are in use. Resource means something that can be used to support, help, carry, store, consume
and convert as and when required. Men and women are not resources, like coal, steel, currency
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