2.1 Introduction to Human Resource Management Flashcards
Role of HR
Strategic management of an organization’s workforce to gain competitive advantage by planning, organizing, recruiting and managing.
Supply of labour
Number of people willing and able to work. It grows and changes being difficult to measure.
Workforce/HR planning
Analyzing and forecasting the number of workers and their skills for what is required
External factors affecting HR planning (affecting the number of people looking for a job)
- Technological changes
- demographic changes
- social trends
- government regulation
- state of the economy
- labour mobility
- immigration
Internal factors affecting HR planning (affecting the management of workers)
- Changes in business organization
- changes in labour relations
- changes in business strategy
- changes in business finance
Factors affecting working environment
- privatization
- migration
- participation of women
- educational opportunities
- urbanization
- aging popuation
Work-life balance
optimal arrangement of an individual’s job and private life balance - comparison of amount of time spent in both
Work patterns
types of jobs + types of people required
Work practices
flexibility work routine
Work preferences
adapt work routine to their lifestyles
Work practices in decline
- full-time job
- permanent contracts
Work practices increase
- homeworing
- flexitime (choose working hours)
- freelance (not committed to an employer)
Types of work preferences
- career breaks (sabatical year)
- down shifting in hierarchy
- job share position
- study leave (stop for a month)
Ethical issue sin the HR plan
- Salaries
- performance appraisal (no special treatments)
- respect / right to privacy
- lay offs and redundacies (ethically)
- health & safety
- no discrimination
- employ ethically
- restructuring
Cultural diferences
- dress code
- power distance (instructions/commands)
- individualism
- masculinity
- uncerainty (expect/know what will happen)
- long-term orientation?
- humour?
- personal space
- body language
