therefore, the role of the personnel function has to be changed. It should no longer be a fire-fighting function and should not confine itself to the discipline of just performing a routinized practice. The personnel work, instead, has to place more emphasis on positive functions such as imaginative pay schemes, profit-sharing arrangements and management development. All told, real human resource management is not only a change in the title or terminology but the achievement of rcal changes in management philosophy and human resource management practice.