Week 1: Intro to HRM

Question 1

Name some implications of Brexit for employers

Answer 1

• Industries that rely on low skilled EU migrants will have difficulties recruiting e.g. agriculture
• There will be a shortage of high skilled manual EU migrants e.g. carpenters, builders
• Talent shortage
• Organisations will need to carry out workforce planning
• Need to identify gaps in the current and future workforce

Question 2

Define HRM

Answer 2

The process of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organisation.

Question 3

What are the goals of human resource management?

Answer 3

• Support the organisation in achieving its objectives
• Contribute to the development of a high-performance culture
• Ensure an organisation has the talented and skilled employees it needs
• Create a positive employment relationship between management and employees

Question 4

Define human capital

Answer 4

The knowledge, skills and abilities, and the capacity to develop and innovate possessed by people in an organisation

Question 5

What are some challenges to managing human capital?

Answer 5

• An increasingly diverse working population
• Rapidly changing business and consumer macro environment characterised by intense competition
• Growth in high skills, flexible and knowledge based work
• Worker alienation negatively affecting recruitment
• Stricter legislation around fairness at work

Question 6

Define employee engagement

Answer 6

The harnessing of an organisations member selfs to their work roles. In engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively and emotionally during role performances

Question 7

What is blind recruitment?

Answer 7

Removing personally identifiable information from CV’s e.g. gender and age to overcome unconscious bias

Question 8

Define workplace culture

Answer 8

The collection of traditions, values, beliefs, policies and attitudes that constitute a pervasive context for everything we do and think in an organisation