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Organisations - Focusing on Human Resources

Organisations - Focusing on Human Resources. Thessalie Robinson (special thanks to Geoff Leese). Functional Areas: HR and Quality. Human Resources – development from Personnel. Managing people. Human Resource Management. Personnel - see as old view just admin + welfare as necessary

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Organisations - Focusing on Human Resources

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  1. Organisations - Focusing on Human Resources Thessalie Robinson(special thanks to Geoff Leese)

  2. Functional Areas: HR and Quality • Human Resources – development from Personnel. Managing people

  3. Human Resource Management • Personnel - see as old view just admin + welfare as necessary • HR - department • HRM - function of line management across the whole organisation • MHR - management of human resources

  4. Ideal View (Armstrong 1991) • Top management driven, line responsibility • Integration of strategy for Business and HR • Commitment orientated • Hard - resources, Soft (people) - greatest asset • Culture valued • Performance challenge, quality delivery • High trust • Team building oriented

  5. Five HRM Functional Areas • Staffing • Rewards • Employee development • Employee maintenance • Employee and industrial relations • Balance of these varies with the organisation

  6. Human Resource Planning • Integrated with the business plan • Locating people and recruiting them • Ensuring maximum utilisation within the workplace • Developing their potential within the workplace, training, experience gaining • Retaining and releasing people

  7. Senior Designers 300 275 250 225 200 175 Resource Usage 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Resource Usage Staff Hours Resource Histogram

  8. Assessing current workforce • Numbers • Skills present and lacking • Location • Deployment • Availability • Promotees, succession • Potential leavers • Multicultural, disability and legal issues

  9. Company’s attitude towards workforce • Turnover • Training • Promotion • Contractors, outsourcing • Working hours • Working patterns • Pay and benefits

  10. Job Description • Broad description of job or position at a given time • Used in recruitment and job evaluation • Gives job title, summary, content • Covers authority and responsibility • Working hours, pay, benefits, conditions of employment • Opportunities for training, promotion and transfer

  11. Management of Staff • Line manager • responsible for day to day activities of own staff in production, service delivery or support • HR • responsible for employment of staff • advisory capacity on recruitment • advisory on legal issues of employment (such as job descriptions, health and safety)

  12. Reading • Bott Chapter 8 • Butel et al Unit 7 (page 395-)

  13. Tutorial Tasks • Write a job description for a bread-butterer for your sandwich production team. • Define • Essential qualities • Desirable qualities • How will these qualities be measured?

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