HR management chapitre 13

Question 1

What is the concept of a work environment?

Answer 1

It is the organizational context in which individuals perform their professional activity; it includes the nature of work, technologies used, company culture, and relationships with other people.

Question 2

What are the 5 factors that motivate organizations to reposition and transform their operations?

Answer 2

• The trend towards creating a knowledge-based service society.
• The globalization of the economy.
• The creation of new business models.
• The enormous pressure on companies to increase performance at every level.
• The creation of more flexible and complex organizational structures.

Question 3

What is globalization?

Answer 3

It is a phenomenon where trade has become internationalized and a new division of production cycles has been created between countries, thus redefining the rules of the game in economics.

Question 4

What is relocation?

Answer 4

It is a decision taken by a business to transfer production or service capacity, and therefore jobs to a region or country with significant advantages in terms of costs, access to a market, or a more skilled and flexible workforce

Question 5

What is a business model?

Answer 5

It is the choice a company makes in order to generate revenue (offers to customers, mechanisms put in place to create value).

Question 6

What is restructuring?

Answer 6

It is an approach aimed at redefining or rearranging the organizational structure around new principle such as empowerment.

Question 7

What is an intrapreneur?

Answer 7

It is a member of a company that, in agreement with it and while remaining an employee, champions innovative business projects deployed within the company.