[Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 70 pages long Study Guide!

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

Document Summary

Chapter 1: strategies, trends, and challenges in human resource management. Human resource management (hrm): the practices, policies, and systems that influence employers" behaviour, attitudes, and performance (aka people practices ) Companies with successful hrm have greater productivity, more innovative, etc. Employees are valuable to organizations human capital employees with training, experience, intelligence, etc. Workforce planning dealing with employees (i. e. more or less) Recruitment attracting a large pool of future employees (with diversity) Selection selecting the best employee (best knowledge, best skills and abilities) Training and development what they need to learn that is required of their jobs. Performance management accessing the performance of an employee (do they need more training?) Compensation and rewards benefits for good performance. Employee and labour relations usually in a unionized environment. Along the way, legal issues need to always be met with the procedures and rules of the companies. Ethics: the fundamental principles of right and wrong canadian council of human.