S/HR/39. What are the differences between Human Resource Management and Traditional Personnel Management?

Since the human resource management came into peoples sense in early 1980s, the debate whether its a distinctive discipline or just a fashion name of the traditional personnel management has never stopped. There are many articles discussing this issue in the past 20 years written by both academics and practitioners. What this article trying to do is illustrate the opinions from both sides of the debate in order to find out to what extent the human resource management and personnel management are different. After reviewing the definitions of personnel management and human resource management, and illustrating the different opinions from the argument of whether human resource management is a distinctive discipline, it can be seen from the article that there are many distinctive features of human resource management and also some opposite opinions which argued that human resource management is just a new bottle with old wines.