Chapter Five: The Human Resource Management Function - The Employment Cycle SAC 2 Flashcards
Maintenance Phase
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Termination Phase
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Human Resource (HR) Planning
The development of strategies to meet the organisation’s future human resource needs.
Job analysis
The study of an employee’s job in order to determine the duties performed, the time involved with each of those duties, the responsibilities involved and the equipment required.
Job description
A summary of what the worker will be doing - the role they will have in the organisation in terms of duties and responsibilities.
Job specification
An indication of the sort of person an organisation is seeking in terms of personal qualities, skills, education and work experience.
Job design
Details the number, kind and variety of tasks that individual employees perform in their jobs. Jobs may be designed so they include a variety of tasks to keep employees interested and motivated.
Recruitment
The process of attracting qualified job applicants from which to select the most appropriate person for a specific job.
Internal recruitment
Recruitment inside the organisation.
External recruitment
Recruitment outside the organisation.
Employee selection
The process of choosing the candidate who best matches the organisation’s requirements.
Discrimination
This occurs when a policy or practice disadvantages a person or a group based on a personal characteristic that is irrelevant to the performance of the work.
Full-time permanent employment
When employees have an ongoing employment contract that includes all legally required entitlements.
Part-time permanent employment
When an employee works fewer ordinary weekly or monthly hours compared with full-time employees.
Fixed term contract
Where employment is offered for a specific period.
Casual employees
Those who are employed on a hourly basis.
Remuneration
Monetary payment in return for the work an employee performs.
Wage
An hourly or weekly rate of pay.
Salary
A fixed amount paid to an employee each year which is them divided by 26 to give a fortnightly salary, or by 12 to give a monthly salary.
Salary sacrifice
When an employee forgoes salary in order to receive another non-cash benefit of equivalent value.
On costs (or non-wage benefits)
Additional costs involved in hiring an employee, above the cost of their wages and include superannuation, long service leave and worker’s compensation.
Induction
The process of acquainting new employees with the organisation - its history, structures, objectives, culture, policies and practices - and the jobs they will perform.
Training
Generally, the process of teaching staff how to do their job more efficiently and effectively by boosting their knowledge and skills.
Development
Organisational activities that prepare staff to take on greater responsibility in the future.
Learning organisation
An organisation that monitors and interprets its environment, seeking to improve its understanding of the interrelationship between its action and its environment.
Succession planning
Planning that focuses on preparing employees with potential to take on key management positions within the organisation in the future, should the need arise.
Recognition and reward programs
Programs that aim to both acknowledge the work an employee has done and provide some sort of benefit such as cash, merchandise, travel or gift certificates in return for a job well done.
Intrinsic rewards
Rewards that come from the task or job itself, such as recognition or feedback or a sense of achievement.
Extrinsic rewards
Rewards outside the job itself. They may be monetary or non-monetary.
Performance management
Management that focuses on improving both organisational and individual performance through relating organisational performance objectives to individual employee performance objectives.
Performance appraisal
The formal assessment of how efficiently and effectively an employee is performing their role in the organisation.
Performance feedback
Information provided to an employee after a performance appraisal.
Termination
Ending the employment of an employee.
Retirement
This is when an employee decides to give up full-time or part-time work and no longer be part of the labour force.
Resignation
The voluntary ending of employment by the employee ‘quitting’ their job.
Redundancy
This is when a person’s job no longer exists, usually due to technological changes, an organisational restructure or a merger or takeover.
Retrenchment
This occurs when a business dismisses an employee because there is not enough work to justify paying them.
Dismissal
This happens when the behaviour of an employee is unacceptable and an organisation terminates their employment.
Unfair dismissal
When an employee is dismissed because the employer has discriminated against them in some way, such as firing someone because she is pregnant.
Establishment Phase
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