to compare traditional personnel management and human resources management is quite difficult and has some limitations.
one big difficulty is that the field of personnel management has a short and not very glorious history (Frost,1992). in the past, organizations were concerned almost exclusively with more and better machinery for increasing productively. they gave little attention to personnel functions. Thus, the situation was that personnel management functions were viewed as a maintenance activity or as a record keeping division. however, some comparisons are highlighted in Table 1