Friday, May 3, 2013

Human Resource Management


Dave Ulrich 1997 - 4 roles of the manager

  1. Strategic Partner
  2. Administrative Expert
  3. Employee Champion
  4. Change Agent
Micheal Porter 1980 - Business Level Strategy
  1. Differentiation
  2. Cost Leadership
Stewart & Brown 2009 - HR Strategy/Strategic Framework for HR
Bargain Labourer
Free Agent
Loyal Soldier
Committed Expert

Chapter5 Recruitment
  1. Internal (recommended by employee), External ( Walk in)
  2. Recruiting method - advertising, agencies, Universities recruiting, Professional association and electronic recruiting.
  3. AIDA Technique
  • Attention
  • Interest
  • Desire
  • Action
Chapter6 Selection
  • EEO - Age, Gender, Religion
  • Test - Interest, Aptitude, Intelligence, Personality
  • Interview
  • Medical examination
The selection decision
Compensatory approach
Commited Expert > need people that can fit the culture ( time consuming/costly)
Successive Hurdles approach (排除法)
Free Agent > Fast recruiting


Chapter8 Remuneration
Financial v Non-Financial
Job evaluation
Job ranking/Job grading > must consider size of orgz, orgz resources, corp. culture, employee attitudes
Point system
Pay range
Standard range
Broadbanding> flatter structure,promote internal structure facilities job mobility.
Setting pay rates
  • Seniority > LS low cost
  • Pay for Performance (merit pay) > CE, FA
  • Skill-based pay > LS- multiskilling >> efficiency
Chapter9 Remuneration incentive
  1)Individuals Incentive Plan
  • Bonus (base wage)
  • Merit Pay
  • Incentive Award & Recognition
  • Sales Incentive
 2)Small Group Incentive Plan
  • Scanlon Plan(sales able to make)
  • Rucker Plan (cost able to reduce)
  • Improshare Plan ( Labour Hour)
 3)Large Group Incentives
  • Profit sharing Plans
  • At-Risk Incentive
Chapter10 Employee Health & Safety
1) Determine do OSHA or not? Based on what strategy?
  • Obstructionist
  • Defensive
  • Accomodative
  • Proactive
2) Health & Safety Issue
  • Terrorism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Obesity
  • Smoking
  • Bullying
3) Stress
Positive or negative effect?
Sources of stress - work load, relationship, needs, law & regulation
Ways to Manage Stress - Relaxation, Exercise, Diet, Talk, Planning time management & delegation.

Chapter 11 Workplace Relation
Union become attractive when :
- Lack of communication between employee & management
- Lower pay
- Poor working condition
- Ignore worker's problem
- Treat employee badly
Employee can fight their right through :
- Featherbedding- union require company to pay for work that is not performed
- Demarcation- Restrict specific type of work to member of particular union
- Strikes
- Go slow
Salaried Operations
- treated all employees equally to avoid them joining union - to control power of union.

Chapter7 Human Resource Department
- Include training & development, career planning and performance appraisal.
Systematic approach to T&D
- accessment- training needs- organization, task, person variable
- activity- classroom activities, simulation
- Evaluation- Kirkpatrick 1983- Reaction, learning, behavior and result.
EEO issue in T&D
Access : opportunity for all ppl in T&D
Treatment : The way all ppl being treated during T&D
Content : Subject matter and style of presentation
Language : Presented only in English
Attendance : Making employees attend programs they find offensive.

Chapter13 IHRM
Differences between domestic & International HRM
- Additional activity- currency exchange
- Increase involvement in employee's personal life- spouse employment
- Increase risk- safety from terrorism
- More complex in employee mix & internal influence- political, economic.
Cross-cultural issues
- Communication- language misunderstanding, Eg: High content v Low content ( use lot of cues)
- Ethics- standard of behaviour
- Trust- relationship >> mutual trust
- Management style- manipulative or participating style
- EEO- alert to cultural differences. 

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