HR & Culture Flashcards
1
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Dimensions HR Regimes
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-Hiring model
-Materialization
-Major Quality
-Remuneration
-Training
-Career Model
-Major Task
Benefit
2
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Sector specific: Civil Service Dimensions
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- Hiring Model: Stable, life time
- Materialization: Appointment into an office
- Major Quality: Loyalty
- Remuneration: Routinized yearly salary increase
- Training: Generalist, often lawyers
- Career model: “Laufbahn”
- Major Task: Implementing the law
- Benefit: Predictable, “neutral”
3
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Generic Human Resource Management Dimensions
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- Hiring Model: Contract, terminable
- Materialization: Employment for a job
- Major Quality: Performance
- Remuneration: Income (Pay for Performance)
- Training: According to function
- Career Model: “Karriere”
- Major Task: Solving problems
- Benefit: Risk taking, innovative, solution driven
4
Q
Public Service Motivation (PSM) - What motivates people working in the public sector?
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- Attraction by public policy making
- Commitment to public interests
- Commiseration with people who are dependent on state help
- Willingness to sacrifice himself
5
Q
Relationship between high PSM and….
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o Commitment o Low turnover job o Satisfaction o Individual and organizational performance o Integrity o Ethical behavior
6
Q
PSM rises with
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o Age
o Management level
o Educational background
7
Q
What do the PSM insights mean for HR management?
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- Employees in the public sector are motivated by content and not just by working context
a. Pro social motivation: Doing something good and helping others
b. Intrinsic motivation: Tasks that are interesting and fun to fulfill - Problem of crowding out
a. Monetary incentives often overestimated in their effect
b. But: Studies have also shown that employees who are already paid performance-based do not automatically have lower intrinsic motivation
8
Q
Four HR functions according to Hilb
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9
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Types of HR Management Regimes
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- Sector specific: Civil Service
- Generic Human Resource Management
