MGMT 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Telecommuting, Occupational Segregation, Absenteeism
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Lo1 explain the importance of human resource management as a strategic contributor to organizational success, and summarize the five steps in human resource planning. Human resource management is the process of determining human resource needs and then recruiting, selecting, developing, motivating, evaluating, compensating, and scheduling employees to achieve organizational goals. The roles and responsibilities of human resource management have evolved primarily because of two factors: organizations recognition of employees as their ultimate resource, changes in laws that rewrote many traditional practices. Shifted from traditional manufacturing industries to service and high-tech manufacturing industries that require high technical job skills: this means, workers must be retrained for new, more challenging jobs. Most firms assigned the job of recruiting, selecting, training, evaluation, compensating, motivating, and firing people to the functional departments that employed them, such as accounting and marketing. Shortages of trained workers in growth areas, such as computer technology, biotechnology, robotics, green technology, and the sciences.
