Human Resource

Management

Andrei tefan Netian

nestian@uaic.ro
Office B615a

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 Getting to know each other

https://www.facebook.com/andreistefan.nestian

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 Interests Learning objectives

What is your interest in HRM?

What do you expect

to learn?

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 quote

...while extraordinary products and unique services

still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage
that stands the test of time...is people.
Mark Salsbury, Human Capital Management: Leveraging Your
Workforce for a Competitive Advantage

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 Organizations and management

Organization Manager
Consists of people with Someone who is
formally assigned roles responsible for
who work together to accomplishing the
achieve its goals organizations goals, and
who does so by
managing the efforts of
the organizations people
Performing the functions
of management

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 Management

Manager = integrator
Integrating resources:
Financial
Capital
Material
Informational / technology
Persons + activity = Human capital

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 Line Versus Staff Authority

Authority
The right to make
decisions
The right to direct the
work of others
The right to give orders

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 Line versus Staff Authority

Line managers
Managers who are authorized to direct the work
of subordinates and are responsible for
accomplishing the organizations tasks
Line authority = superiorsubordinate
relationship

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 Line versus Staff Authority

Staff managers
Assist and advise line managers in accomplishing
these goals
Staff authority
Staff managers generally run
departments that are advisory
or supportive, like purchasing,
human resource management
and quality control.
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 Managing people

Line authority: Staff authority:

Manager HR Manager
(h. superior) (support)

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 HR problems

Write down some HR problems you imagine

occurring in organisations.

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 Why is HR Management Important to
All Managers?
Personnel mistakes you dont want to make:
Having employees who are not performing at peak
capacity
Hiring the wrong person for the job
Experiencing high turnover
Finding that employees are not doing their best
Having your company taken to court because of
your discriminatory actions

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 Why is HR Management Important to
All Managers? (cont.)
Personnel mistakes you dont want to make:
Having your company cited under
occupational safety laws for unsafe practices
Allowing a lack of training to undermine your
departments effectiveness
Committing any unfair labor practices

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 What is Human Resource
Management?

Human resource
management
The process of acquiring,
training, appraising, and
compensating employees,
and of attending to their
labor relations, health and
safety, and fairness concerns

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 Systemic view of HRM

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 Human Resource Management
Practices and Policies

Conducting job analyses

Planning labor needs, recruiting job
candidates vs. layoffs
Selecting job candidates
Orienting and training new employees
Managing wages and salaries

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 Human Resource Management
Practices and Policies (cont.)
Providing incentives and benefits
Appraising performance
Communicating
Training employees and developing
managers
Building employee commitment

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 Typical Jobs in a HR Dept.
(staff responsibilities in HR)

Recruiters
Job analysts
Compensation managers
Training specialists
Labor relations specialists
Equal employment opportunity (EEO)
representatives or affirmative action coordinators
(USA only)

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 Organization Chart

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 Line Managers HR Responsibilities

1. Placing the right person in the right job

2. Starting new employees in the organization
3. Training employees for jobs that are new to
them
4. Improving the job performance of each
employee
5. Gaining creative cooperation and developing
smooth working relationships
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 Line Managers HR Responsibilities
(cont.)
6. Interpreting the companys policies and
procedures
7. Controlling labor costs
8. Developing the abilities of each employee
9. Creating and maintaining departmental
morale
10. Protecting employees health and physical
conditions
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 What a Manager Should Know

Equal opportunity, ethics, and affirmative

action
Employee health and safety and ethical
treatment
Grievance and labor relations

Affirmative action = actions to achieve non-

discrimination by assuring equal opportunity.

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Managing Human
Resources Today
 Trends Influencing Human Resource
Management

Globalization
Firms tendency to
extend their sales,
ownership, and/or
manufacturing to new
markets abroad

Outsourcing vs. Workers from abroad

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 Trends Influencing Human Resource
Management
Indebtedness (leverage) and deregulation
Technological advances
Nature of work
Service jobs, human capital

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 Trends Influencing Human Resource
Management
Growing emphasis on knowledge workers
and human capital
Human capital
The knowledge, education, training, skills, and
expertise of a firms workers

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 Demographic Trends

Retirees
Nontraditional workers
Generation Y, Z

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 Generation Y

May be the most high-maintenance

workforce in the history of the world.
This generations capacity for using
information technology will also make it the
most high-performing.

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 Generation Y vs. Generation Z

Generation Y:

http://legalcareers.about.com/od/practicetips/a/GenerationY.htm

Generation Z.

http://www.slideshare.net/sparksandhoney/generation-z-final-june-17

http://generationz.com.au/

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 Companies suitable for ?

Generation Y vs. Generation Z

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

- Jim Collins, Good to Great

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 Jobs suitable for?

Generation Y vs. Generation Z

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing

to climb.
- Andrew Carnegie

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 The New Human Resources
Organization
Transactional HR group Corporate HR group
Focuses on using Focuses on assisting top
centralized call centers management in top-
and vendors to provide level issues
specialized support in
day-to-day transactional
HR activities

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 The New Human Resources
Organization (cont.)
Embedded HR group Centers of expertise
Assigns HR generalists groups
to departments like Provide specialized
sales and production assistance in areas such
to provide the as organizational change
assistance the
departments need

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 HR in Small Business

Small firms (e.g., those with less than 100

employees) generally cant afford a full-time
human resource manager.
Their human resource management tends to
be ad hoc and informal.

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 The Human Resource Manager Today

Uses evidence-based human resource

management
Measures HR performance
Measures ethics
Has new proficiencies
HR certification

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Fundamentals of
Human Resource
Management
2e

Gary Dessler
 ASSESSMENT

Seminars: 50% of the discipline

Final exam: 50% of the discipline

Seminars Assessment:
Recruiting and selection activity 50%
Job description
Recruitment (job announcement)
Selection (job application and simulated job
interview)

- including assignments, homeworks and

collaborative activities.
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 Seminars

Requisites:
1 computer per 4
students, 1 memory stick
per 4 students

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