MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Resource Management, Sexual Coercion, Secondary Sector Of The Economy
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Sexual coercion: harassment of a sexual nature that results in some direct consequence to the worker"s employment status or some gain in or loss of tangible job benefits. Sexual annoyance: sexually related conduct that is hostile, intimidating, or offensive to the employee but has no direct link to tangible job benefits or loss thereof. Job: a group of related activities and duties, held by a single employee or a number of incumbents: position: the collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person. Industrial engineering: a field of study concerning with analyzing work methods; making work cycles more efficient by modifying, combining, rearranging, or eliminating tasks; and establishing time standards. Job enlargement (horizontal loading): a technique to relieve monotony and boredom that involves assigning workers additional tasks at the same level of responsibility to increase the number of tasks they have to perform.