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Construction and Personnel Management: Definition: Construction and personnel deals with people in an enterprise. Objective: To increase the effectiveness of every work unit, to enable employees a greater sense of personnel satisfaction.

Steps to Manage Personnel Better•

Understanding and managing people by – (a) Personnel relations (b) Industrial relations (c)Human relations

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Understanding and managing people through – (a) Job design: Must be the most prominent single element in scientific management whose goal was to maximise human efficiency in jobs. (b) Job enrichment: Provide opportunities for achievement, recognition, growth and responsibility. (c) Motivation

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Man power planning. Selection. Training. Wages and incentives. Promotion ,transfer and demotion Supervision Grievance handling. Discipline. Compliance of labour laws. Penalty/liquidated damages. Measurement, valuation and payments.

Seven Principles of Personnel Management: • • • • • • •

Care and Skill should be exercised in the selection of employees. Introduction to the job should be friendly, skilful and adequate. Each employee should be made to feel that his efforts are really appreciated. Consideration should be given to the effect that each rule and instrument may have on the feelings of the employees. Employees should have a part in the planning those things that affect their working conditions. Management should be absolutely fair in every policy and every practice. Each employee should have a feeling of pride in their worthiness of his work and his company.