Test 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of HR management
It is the process of acquiring, training, apparasing, compensating employees and attending of their labor relations health and safety and fairness concerns
Name the 5 functions of the management process
Plannning
leading
organizing
controlling
leading
staffing
Planning:
establishing goals and standards, developing rules, and procedures developing plans
leading:
getting others to get job done, maintaining morale, motivating subordinates
organizing
giving each sub a task, establishing gdpts, delegating authority, coordinating work of others
Controlling
setting standard dsuch as quality standards checking to see how actually performance compares with those standards.
staffing
determine what type of people should be hired; recruiting , selecting employees
Name the key functions of human resource management (9)
B- building employee relations and engagement
c-communicating
o- orienting and training new employees
m-managing wages and salaries
p-planning labor needs; recruiting job candidate
a-appraising performance
c-conducting job analyses
t-training employees and dvp managers
s- selecting job candidates
Why is HR important to an organization?
it can help ensure that you get results through people
Difference btw line and staff authority
Line: gives managers right to issue orders to other managers/employees
staff: gives a manger the right to advise other managers employees (tells managers what to do)
What is the Gig Economy?
contract positions
How does Globalization affect HR?
more globalization means more competition and more comp means more pressure to be th world class to lower class to make employees happy
Equal pay act of 1963
is the act of requiring equal pay for equal regardless of sex
Civil Rights Act of 1964 title VII
An employer cannot discriminate based on rage color, religion sex, or national origin.
- EEOC
equal employent opp commsion - recieves and investigates job discrimination complaints
- BFOQ
bonafide occupational qualifications = requirement than an employee be of a certain religion sex or nation al origin where that is reasonably necessary to comply organization.
- Age Discrimination Act of 1967
makes it unlawful to distrcimate against an employee or applicants for employment who are 40 years of age and older
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
requiting employees to make reasonable accommodations for disables employees; prohibits discrimination.
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
prohibits sex disrecimantion based on pregnancy childbirth
- Griggs V. Duke Power Company
coal handler job required to be high school grad but Griggs argues you didn’t need to be to be successful. It hired more whites than blacks.
- Albermarle Paper Company v. Moody
before using a test to screen candidates performance standards for the job should be clear so employer can identify with employee were performing better than others. (an seeding I screening was affective)