Models of Personnel Management: A Means of Understanding the Diversity of Personnel Practices?

Kathy Monks, who is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Dublin City University Business School, discusses the results of a survey of the roles and responsibilities of personnel managers in Eire. She describes four main models of personnel practice which she found and compares them with those developed by Tyson and Fell in 1986 drawing on research in the UK. She goes on to consider why organisations adopt simple or complex personnel management pratices.