MGMT100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Resource Management, Employment Discrimination, Management System
MGMT100 – Managing people, systems and culture
Week 9 Workshop
Human Resources
Human resource management (HRM):
• The process of attracting, developing and maintaining a quality workforce to support
a orgaisatio’s issio, ojeties ad strategies.
• Relies on workers having relevant skills and enthusiasm
• The key is to make these workers available
• Why do people make the difference?
- An organisation must be well staffed with capable and committed people in
order to fully achieve its objectives
- Management practices associated with successful organisation are
employment security, decentralisation, use of teams, good remuneration,
extensive training and information sharing
• What is strategic human resource management?
• How do organisations attract a quality workforce?
• How do organisations develop a quality workforce?
• How do organisations maintain a quality workforce?
• International HRM:
- Practices need to become more sophisticated and culturally sensitive
• Strategic HRM:
- Applies the HRM process to ensure effective accomplishment of
orgaisatio’s issio
- Involves attracting, developing and maintaining a quality workforce to
implement organisational strategies
• HR Planning:
- Analyses staffing needs and identifies actions to fill those needs
Diversity:
• Is linked with competitive advantage
• Brings in an array of talents, perspectives, experiences and world views to problem-
solving
• Talent is not restricted by race, gender, religion, marital/parental status, sexual
orientation, ethnicity or other diversity characteristics
Employment discrimination:
• Discrimination:
- When someone is denied work for reasons that are not relevant to the job
itself. E.g. race, language, gender
• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):
- The right to employment and advancement without regard to race, sex,
religion, colour or national origin
• Sexual Harassment:
- Occurs as behaviour of a sexual nature that affects a person and their
employment
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Document Summary
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