Chapter 1

Question 1

What is employer branding?

Answer 1

• this makes working there not only a job but a creer.
• firms corporate image or culture created to attract and retain the type of employees the firm is seeking
• an organisation that people will want to work for cause its cool and interesting

Question 2

What is a corporate culture?

Answer 2

a system of shared belief, values and habits that interacts with the formal struture of an organisation to produce behavioural norms

Question 3

What is Human resource management?

Answer 3

Utilazation of individuals to achieve organizational pbjectives
-get things done through the efforts of others

Question 4

Functions of Human resource management

Answer 4

• staffing
• Human reosurce development
• compensation
• safety and health
• employee and labour relations

Question 5

Staffing

Answer 5

-organization insures that they have the proper number of employees with the appropriate skills int the right jobs at the right time to chieve organizational objectives

Question 6

Human resource development

Answer 6

Major HRM function consisting of training and development and individual career planning and development activities, organization development and performance management and appraisal

Question 7

Career development:

Answer 7

formal approah by the organisatin to ensure that people with the proper qualifications and experiences are available when needed

Question 8

External factors that affect HRM

Answer 8

-legal considerations,
-labour market,
-society
political parties
-technology
-unions
-shareholders
-competition
-economy
-customers

Question 9

why is corporate culture a major environment factor?

Answer 9

-because it is a system of shared values, beliefs and habits withing an organisation. it affects job performance and consequently profitability

Question 10

HRM tasks:

Answer 10

individuals who normally act in an advisory or staff capacity, working with other managers to help them deal with human resource matters

Question 11

HRM activities for small businesses

Answer 11

• they often have the same tasks but they accomplish them differently. Often dont have a forma HR unit and often line managers handle HR-functions

Question 12

what is an executive

Answer 12

top level manager who report directly to the ceo or head of major divisio

Question 13

what is a generalist

Answer 13

perform tasks in a wide variety of HR-related areas

Question 14

What is a specialist

Answer 14

May be a Human resource executive, manager or nonmanager who is typically concerned with only one of the functional areas of HRM