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In actual, there is a lot much difference between HR and administration but unfortunately smaller organizations or organizations with unclear HR concepts / functions mix it up with each other and thus such posts do arise like HR and Admin manager and thus instead of hiring and seperating these two post, they want to take the work of both these areas from a single person. It was truly said that HR could perform the tasks of Administration which are of routine nature (e.g. transport management, vehicle problems handling in pharmaceutical organizations, construction or civil matters...etc) but the tasks performed by HR are definately specialized in nature (Like training and development according to the needs, performance appraisal, career management & succession planning, motivating and retaining employees....etc).As far as the personnel managment is concerned, it is considered to be the old form of HR and older concept in which human side of employees was less viewed or focused.
agree with mr.Mohammed Fahad Ansari
Agree to all. In big organization HR is the key factor in event of merger and acquisition and labour issues and quotas, apart from HR routine hiring, employee leave records & personnel records, gratuity, bonuses, training and motivation, performance appraisals and salary and commissioning, layoffs etc. . HR department is a millennial concept and started when management role was broaden up to segmenting and cross broader multi-geographical reporting.
On the other hand, administration is also one of the top pillars, of the organization, helping other operational departments in various activities, for example, ensuring, maintaining of physical assets, movement of goods and services, transportation, paying of rents and utilities and sometimes office maintenance, security, customs clearance, mails delivery and email handling, and postage services, buying company's assets, accommodation and booking, arranging tickets for guests etc.
In small organizations, these activities are merged with several other departments, depending upon company's resources, budgets and operational issues
Rightly said SME sector, sole proprietorship and family owned businesses usually avoid such huge structures because of many reasons, but big labour intensive, manufacturing concerns public/private company's or LLC usually have such break downs in the organizations.
HR Officer: Job analysis, advertisement, CV screening, shortlisting, interview, offer letter, orientation, transfer, deployment, retrenchment, termination.
Admin Officer: Office utility, asset maintenance & repairment, visa handling, vehicle handling,
