Unit 2.1 - Introduction to Human Resource Management
What you need to know and understand:
- Role of human resource management
- Internal and external factors that influence human resource planning (for example, demographic change, change in labour mobility, immigration, flexi-time, gig economy)
- Reasons for resistance to change in the workplace
- Human resource strategies for reducing the impact of change and resistance to change
Conceptual Understandings:
- People play a major role in driving organizational change
- Creative employees could be essential for business success
- Ethical human resource systems may positively affect employee performance
- Sustainable human behavior can bring positive change in a business
Questions to consider:
- Is it inevitable that the implicit biases of the interviewer will influence the outcome of interviews?
- Is being knowledgeable an essential quality in a manager?
- How might emotive language and faulty reasoning be used in collective bargaining negotiations?
- In what ways can language be used to influence, persuade or manipulate employees?
- Should critical events in the historical development of the industrial/employee relations always be judged by the standards of their time?
- Can we ever really know what motivates an employee?
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Workforce planning
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Labor turnover
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Outsourcing, offshoring, & re-shoring
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Recruitment
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Training
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Appraisal
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