Managing Human Resources

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Managing Human Resources

• FCS 3000
• Chapter 8

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Human resources A review

• Human resources include all the capabilities that
  contribute to achieving goals and responding to
  demands.
• Three categories
• Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor

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Human capital

• Sum total of an individuals human resources
• Development of these resources are critical
• Education, training, practice
• Professional development

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A picture of America

• First census -1790
• Taken every 10 years

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Population Changes (Increasing)

• of minority groups
• Maturation of society
• Baby boom generations - (1946-1964)
• Respect for mosaic society
• Respect for environment

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Population Terms

• Demography - study of human population
  (characteristics)
• Demographics - data describing population,
  subgroups
• Fertility Rate - yearly births per 1000
  childbearing age women
• Mortality - death
• Immigration - people entering, settling in
  country

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Race, Ethnicity

• Minority groups fastest growing
• Younger than other Americans
• Higher birth rates
• Include many subgroups
• Immigration increasing numbers

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Households Families

• of households ?
• of persons per household ?
• 3 in 5 households have no children
• ? fertility, ? elderly people
• Male-headed hh - fastest ? group
• Nonfamily (2 unrelated) hh ?

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Marital Status

• Waiting longer to marry
• Marriage/divorce rates ?
• Second marriage
• Median age bride, 32
• Median age groom, 34

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Mobility

• Changing residence
• Typical householder moves 5-6 years
• Average distance 6 miles
• Renters move more than homeowners
• Affects finances, stress, individual/family
  moral

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Two-Income Families

• Dual-income (earner) households
• Spouses, income producing jobs
• Have more
• Dual-career - long-term commitment to career
  goal
• Family resources play key role in satisfaction

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Two-Income Families

• Management problems, setting priorities
• Open communication, dealing with change
  important

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Caregiving Children

• Caregivers - improving quality of life for
  another
• Financial, physical, emotional care
• Young families w/2 children often have
  management problems
• Parent(s) with management skills
• Easier to form strategies, solve
  problems, adjust to change

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Caregiving Elderly

• Boomeranging - adult children return to
  parents home
• Caregivers dwindling adult women in the
  workforce, fewer children
• 1 in 4 households involved in daily care for
  elderly parent
• Sandwich generations - care for children
  parents at same time

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Caregivers
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Caregiving Elderly

• Resource allocation problems
• Gerontology - scientific
• study of aging process

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Adjusting to Retirement

• One of most important life changes
• Can feel useless, lack direction
• Consider human energy, financial resources of
  caregivers, dependents
• Varying lifestyles, differing management
  needs
• Careful balance - emotional, physical,
  spiritual health

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Homeless

• 18 million homeless
• Home most expensive purchase
• Majority - single males,
  women children ?
• Chronic homelessness linked to
  poverty
• Homeless problems cannot be separated from
  other problems

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Individuals with Disabilities

• Disability - long term/chronic not
  always a handicap
• Handicap - disadvantage, interference or
  barrier to performance in desired life role
• Functional limitation - hindrance in performance

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Impact on FRM

• Is the disability temporary or long term?
• Is there disability insurance? What does it
  cover?
• Others?

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Single-Parent, Blended Families

• Often legal, social, personal,
• economic, psychological issues
• Must determine resource mgt needs
• Single-Parents - many types
• Blended family - new families with children
  from previous relationships (stepfamilies,
  reconstituted, combined)

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Poverty, Low-Income Families

• Poverty - state of being poor
• Inability to provide basic needs on consistent
  basis
• Family income less than 1/2 national median
• Transfer Payments - Monies/services that
  recipient does not directly pay for

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Poverty, Low-Income Families

• Fatalism think events shaped by fate
• Belief leads to low expectations,
  hopelessness

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Abusive Parental Behavior

• Maladaptive interpretive process
• Poor parenting strategies
• Poor impulse control
• Poor stress coping
• Poor social skills

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Get ready for a change

• Change
• To cause to be different, to alter or to
  transform
• Internal v external
• Adaptability
• Ability to cope with change
• Mobility (changing residences)

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Managing Change

• Inherently messy, complicated, conflicting
  demands
• New patterns, power, influence, control
• Challenge to sustain momentum
• Requires shift in thinking
• Takes time, effort, planning, decision
  implementation

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Management Issues

• Dual-earner/dual-career families
• Children/child care
• Elderly/elder care, and aging
• Homeless
• Individuals with disabilities
• Single parent/blended families
• Poverty/low-income families

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Summary

• As more people, services, and environments
  become involved and time becomes tighter, more
  complex problem solving and decision
  implementation are necessary.