Human Resource Objectives Flashcards
What are the 7 types of Human Resource objectives?
TALENT D
- Talent development
- Alignment of values
- Labour productivity
- Employee engagement and involvement
- Number and location of the business’s workforce
- Training
- Diversity
What is the definition of employee engagement?
Employee engagement describes the connection between a business’s employees and its mission, goals and objectives
- intellectual engagement
- affective engagement
- social engagement
What is employee involvement?
Employee involvement exists in a business in which people are able to have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their working lives
- considering employees’ ideas and opinions
- employee representatives
What has caused the increased interest in talent development?
- Overcoming the pressures of succeeding in increasingly competitive global markets
- Coping with shortages of certain skilled employees
- Growing need for highly specialist and creative employees
What is diversity, in an employment context?
Diversity, in an employment context, refers to recognising the differences between individual employees and also the differences that may exist between different groups of employees
What is soft HRM?
This approach is based on the notion that employees are the most valuable asset a business has and they should be developed to maximise their value to the organisation.
Long-term approach
What is Hard HRM?
Treat employees as a resource to be used optimally. Employees obtained as cheaply as possible on short-term, zero-hour contracts.
What are the internal influences on HR objectives and decisions?
- Corporate or overall objectives
- Attitudes and beliefs of the senior managers
- Hard or Soft HR approach
- Type of product
What are the external influences on HR objectives and decisions?
- The technological environment
- The economic environment
- The social environment
- The competitive environment
- The political environment
What is meant by job design?
Job design is the process of grouping together or dividing up tasks and responsibilities to create complete jobs
What is meant by job enrichment?
Job enrichment occurs when employees’ jobs are redesigned to provide them with more challenging and complex tasks
What is Hackman and Oldham model of job design? FATTS
Core job dimensions:
- Skill variety
- Task identify
- Task significance
- Autonomy
- Feedback
Effects of these lead to:
- High internal work motivation
- High quality work performance
- High satisfaction with the work
- Low absenteeism and turnover
Influences on job design?
- Overall or corporate objectives
- Employee performance
- Health & safety and other legal requirements
- Customer requirements
- Existing and potential skill
- Resources available
- Expected future developments
What is meant by organisational structure?
Organisational structure is the way a business is arranged to carry out its activities
What is meant by organisational design?
Organisational design is a process to ensure that the organisation is appropriately designed to deliver organisation objectives in the short and long term