Chapter 16 - Human Resource Management Strategy

Question 1

HRM Strategy

Answer 1

A Long term plan for the management of an organisation’s human resources.

Question 2

Hard HRM

Answer 2

An approach to managing employees that focuses on cutting costs.

Question 3

Soft HRM

Answer 3

An Approach to managing employees that focuses on their development so that they reach self-fulfillment and are motivated to work hard and stay with the business.

Question 4

Full-Time Employees Contract

Answer 4

An employment contract that is for a complete working week.

Question 5

Permanent Employee Contract

Answer 5

A contract that employs a worker unless they are dismissed, made redundant or decide to leave the organisation.

Question 6

Temporary Contract

Answer 6

The contract is only offered for a fixed period of time, such as six months. The contract can be renewed, but the employer does not have to do this.

Question 7

Part Time Contract

Answer 7

Workers are only contracted to work certain number of hours each week ( less than the full time working force)

Question 8

Zero Hour Contract

Answer 8

An employment contract that does not guarantee a minimum number of hours per week, but the worker is expected to be available for work when called by the employer.

Question 9

Gig Economy

Answer 9

An employment mix in which temporary flexible jobs are common and workers are hired as independent contractors or freelance employees.

Question 10

Flexible Employment Contract

Answer 10

A contract that allows employees more control over their work life balance, including options to work from home, flexible start and finish times, to work part time or job share

Question 11

Flexitime Arrangement

Answer 11

A flexible way of working that allows employees to fit their working hours around their individual needs, and to accommodate other commitments outside of work.

Question 12

Home Working

Answer 12

When an employee work from home, often for a specific number of days per week, but keeps contact with the office by mans of modern IT communications.

Question 13

Annualised Hours Contract

Answer 13

A contract offering a specific number of hours of work over the whole year, but with some flexibility about when those hours are worked.

Question 14

Job Sharing

Answer 14

A work schedule in which two employes voluntarily share the responsibilities of one full time job. They receive a salary and benefits on a proportionate basis

Question 15

Compressed Working Hours

Answer 15

The number of hours per week of a full time on, but worked in fewer days.

Question 16

Shift Work

Answer 16

Work that takes place on schedule outside the traditional 9 am to 5 pm day. It can involve evening or night shifts, early morning shifts and rotating shifts.

Question 17

Absenteeism

Answer 17

A measure of the rate of workforce absence as a proportion of the employee total.

= (Number of days of employees absence/ Total Number of workdays) * 100

Question 18

Management By Objectives

Answer 18

Establishing a management information sharing system to compare actual performance and achievements against pre-set objectives for each department or employee.

Question 19

Applications of IT

Answer 19

Recruitment
Training and development
Employee Performance Management
Employee Data Management

Question 20

Evaluation Of IT In HRM

Answer 20

• Use of IT frees up HRM time for more important strategic issues
• It can reduce social and personal; contact between HRM and employees and make the HR managers Remote.
• Increased dependency of IT-based communication methods reduces the opportunity for 2-way group discussions.
• Risk of creating a sense of being watched and monitored at all times amongst employees.