BUS 082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hawthorne Effect, Job Analysis, Fair Labor Standards Act

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Business (BUS)
• Course: BUS 082
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Human resource management: the right people in the right job. Human resource management is the process of hiring, developing, motivating and evaluating employees to achieve organizational goals. Employee morale: an employee"s attitude towards his or her colleagues: employee motivation: the inner drive that directs a person"s behavior towards goals. Why is it important? fosters employee loyalty. Affects all relationships within the organization influences promotion, pay, job design, training. Beginning of concerns for social and psychological factors in the workplace. Assumes workers generally dislike works and must be forced to do their jobs. A management philosophy that stresses employee participation in all aspects of company decision making. Attracting qualified applicants internally: easier to train, more motivation, loyalty, speed, boosts moral. Methods used must be valid and reliable predictors of company performance tests related to job references: not very valid. Equal pay act (1963) requires that men and woman who do equal work receive equal pay.