Week 1

Question 1

What is HRM?

Answer 1

A set of policies, systems, and practices that influence employees’ behavior, attitudes, and performance

Question 2

Employee lifecycle

Answer 2

1. Recruitment & Selection - hiring right people at right time
2. Learning & Development - deriving full potential and developing
3. Performance management - rewarding/managing performance
4. Reward management
5. Employment relationship

Question 3

What is a high performance work system (HPWS)

Answer 3

A group of separate but interconnected HR practices designed to enhance employee skill and effort

Question 4

What is evidence-based management?

Answer 4

Basing deciisons on a combination of Best available evidence, critical thinking, scientific evidence, and business information

Question 5

What is a model used to use EBHM?

Answer 5

LESS MODEL
1. Local context - facts and numbers in the local organisation context to identify issues.
2. Experience - professional experience and expertise
3. Stakeholders -
4. Scientific evidence

Question 6

What is job analysis?

Answer 6

process of gathering info about various tasks and responsibilities involved in a job

Question 7

What is personnel management?

Answer 7

View employees as costs and had specializations like recruitment, training, etc.

Question 8

How did personnel managmenet -> to HRM

Answer 8

started with personnel management, which led to HRM. Went from seeing employees as costs to resources. HRM sees employees as a resource crucial for competitive advantage

Question 9

What is Devolution?

Answer 9

The process of transferring responsibilities from HR to line managers.

Question 10

What is a goal of an organisation?

Answer 10

What the organisation hopes to achieve in the medium to long term

Question 11

what is the vision?

Answer 11

What the organisation expects to become at a particular time

Question 12

What is a mission

Answer 12

what the organisation expects to do to become the envisioned organisaiton

Question 13

What is strategy?

Answer 13

a plan of action designed to achieve a set of objectives

Question 14

What are 2 types of strategy?

Answer 14

1. Cost leadership - goal is to reduce costs, have narrow job roles to maximize efficiency, hire and train specific skill sets, and uses a performance-based compensation. Specific job roles means its easily trained and less skills needed
2. Differentiation - wants to create the perceptions of difference, has broad job roles to maximize cross feritilization, hires people that cooperate and creative, and will pay for market value of employee

Question 15

What is a good SHRM?

Answer 15

A good strategic HRM has good alignment with organisational goals.

Question 16

What is vertical and horizontal HRM alignemnt?

Answer 16

Vertical alignment is matching of HRM policies and practices with business strategy.
Horizontal alignment is strong consistency and interconnection between HRM policies and practices

Question 17

primary data vs secondary

Answer 17

Primary -> collected specifically to address issue
Secondary -> data collected with no primary purpose. Already existing info

Question 18

What are the 5 A’s of evidence based practice?

Answer 18

1. Ask - identify issue and problem statement
2. Acquire - search for evidence
3. Appraise - critically evaluate quality and relevance of evidence
4. Apply - combine evidence with expertise and understanding of context and create strategy/plan
5. Assess - montior and review the outcomes

Question 19

what are the outcomes of job analysis?

Answer 19

1.Job description
Outlines the typical job duties, tasks, and responsibilities
2. Person specification
Outlines the essential and desirable criteria of the person doing the job