Intro

Question 1

What is HR strategy?

Answer 1

• The ways in which human resources are deployed to meet organisational objectives, and to adapt and respond to external and internal environmental factors

Question 2

What is HRM?

Answer 2

• Identifying, developing and enabling attitudes, behaviours, and competencies which drive strategy implementation, and in turn optimise organismal performance
• HRM emerged from the Human Relations tradition - Harvard “soft school”

Question 3

What is personnel management?

Answer 3

• Concerned with the admin of payroll, benefits, employee record keeping, recruitment administration

Question 4

What are the three core components of HRM?

Answer 4

• Attain, Retain and Motivate Talent

Question 5

What are the components of an HRM system?

Answer 5

• Staffing & Socialisation
• Leaning & Development
• Reward Management
• Performance Management
• All in the context of:
  
  • Internal & External Environment
    
    • Organistional strategy/structure
    • Management style
    • Markets/regulation/emlpoyment relaitons

Question 6

What is SHRM?

Answer 6

• Long term basis
• New linkages between HRM and strategic planning
• Proposed linkages between HRM and ogarniational performance
• Inclusion of line managers in the HRM policy making process