Human Resource Management

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Human Resource Management

• We manage the human side of enterprise
• Staffing
• Training and Development
• Performance Management
• Compensation
• Benefits
• Safety and Health
• Employee Relations

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This course

• Is first course in the discipline
• Introduces key language, concepts, skills
• Provides useful practical information, regardless
  of your career path
• Prepares you for advanced study

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Advanced classes .

• Staffing (mgmt 441)
• Compensation (mgmt 442)
• Training (mgmt 445)
• Benefits (fina 466)
• Employment and labor law (Blaw 452)
• Labor economics (econ 403)
• Ergonomics (met 423)
• Worksite health promotion (hlth 488)

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Course Requirements

• Acquire access to required text, read assignments
• Show up, listen actively, take notes
• Complete all quizzes
• Write research essay, present orally to class
• Note class Latest Scoop web page as
  central information source for class

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3 anchors to HR

• Industrial Engineering
• Human Relations
• Human Resource integration

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Industrial Engineering

• Emphasize production efficiency
• FW Taylor and Scientific Management
• 1- find the one best way
• 2- train employees in best way
• 3- share productivity gains

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Human Relations

• Emphasize psychology of work
• Study peoples perceptions and reactions
• Hawthorne Studies in 1920s
• Measure job satisfaction
• Seek to improve work environment so
• perceptions and reactions are more positive

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Human Resource Approach

• Integrate industrial engineering and human
  relations approaches
• Concern for people and production
• Match people to jobs on job-related skills

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US HR/Workforce Trends

• Aging Work Force
• Shift toward Less Permanent Employment
• Increasing Health Care Costs
• Increasing Diversity
• Increasing Education Level
• Greater Income Disparity
• Pressure from High-quality, Low-wage Labor
  Markets
• Jobless Recovery

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What to do in short run?

• Gain access to text. Skim-read first three
  chapters. Choose essay option, inform Prof.
  Miller via email
• Show up, keep up!

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Starting with the big picture

• http//www.dol.gov/
• http//www.census.gov/