Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sampling Error, Meta-Analysis, Job Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Hayden Woodley

Document Summary

Human resource management are the policies, practices, and systems that influence employees" behaviour, attitudes, and performance. Ethics: the fundamental principles of right and wrong. For hr practices to be considered ethical they must. Provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Respect legal requirements (human rights and privacy) Treat employees and customers equitably and fairly. Job analysis workforce planning recruitment selection training and development performance mgmt. Goal in hr is often to predict, predict who will be the best employee for the occupation. Research shows letters of reference don"t work. Hr pro"s don"t usually see the value of intelligence and personality research. Intelligence is one of the best predictors of performance. Evidence-based management: translating principles into practice based on the best scientific evidence rather than personal preference. Evidence based = research to back up thoughts. Hypothesis: a formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables. Variable: measure that can take on two or more values.