3.6 HR Flashcards
HR objectives
Employee engagement and involvement, Talent development, Training, Diversity, Alignment of values
Internal fact on HR
culture, other dep, funding
External factors on HR
Economy, laws, ethical and environmental issues, tech
Hard HRM
Employees are seen as a resource
Soft HRM
Employees are the most important resource
Labour turnover
How many people are leaving the business within a given time period
Labour productivity
How effienct the workforce is, how much there producing in a day
Hackman and Oldham - job design
Skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback
Span of control
Number of people who report directly to a manager (wide or narrow)
Centralised
All decisions are made by senior managers at the top of a business
Decentralised
Shares out authority to each individual branch
Delegation
Giving responsibility to people below you
HR flow
people moving in, around and out of the business
Taylor
Piece rate pay
Maslow
Hierarchy of needs