Human Resource Management Spring 2007 Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 1

Human Resource Management • Activities necessary for staffing the organization and sustaining high employee performance • The strategic and operational management of activities to enhance the performance of the human resources in the organization • Those activities necessary to supply the organization with the appropriate number and combination of people who can and will perform the tasks necessary to accomplish organization goals Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 2

Why Does HR Matter? • Source of competitive advantage • Managing people for competitive advantage • Employment security • Selective hiring • Self-managed teams, decentralized decision-making • Relatively high compensation -- contingent on performance • Extensive training • Reduced status differentials • Information sharing Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 3

HR Functions • • • Spring 2007 Planning and Job Analysis Legal and EEO Staffing Training and Development Compensation and Benefits Employee and Labor Relations Human Resource Management 4

Legal Considerations • Staffing • Various EEO (next slide…) • Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) • Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (1988) • Compensation and Benefits • • • Social Security Act (1935) Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) ERISA (1974) COBRA (1984) Family and Medical Leave Act (1993) Safety • OSHA (1974) • Spring 2007 Labor Relations (later…) Human Resource Management 5

EEO: Laws • • Spring 2007 Equal Pay Act (1963) Civil Rights Act (1964), Title VII Age Discrimination Employment Act (1967) Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act (1974) Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978) ADA (1990) Civil Rights Act (1991) Human Resource Management 6

Staffing • Strategic issues • Hire vs. train • The best vs. good enough • Recruitment • Difficult today…. . or always difficult • Recruit the people you’d like to hire • Selection • The interview • Tests • Downsizing Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 7

Training and Development • Training vs. development • Training = skills • Development = long-term • Training and technology • Technology change makes training even more critical • Technology not the answer to training issues • Choosing a training method • Match method and content • Practical considerations Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 8

Compensation • The problems • A limited pie to cut up • Need to balance recruitment / retention and profits • Solving the problem • External equity • Internal equity • Rewarding above and beyond expectations Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 9

Employee Relations Issues • Privacy concerns • • Drug testing Work monitoring Email Genetic testing • Grievances and complaints • Discipline Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 10

Labor Relations • Labor laws • • Wagner Act (1935) Taft-Hartley Act (1947) Landrum-Griffin Act (1959) Various state right-to-work laws • A specialist area • Who gets organized ? Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 11

Union Membership in the Year 2004 Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 12

Union Members - Where Employed Spring 2007 Human Resource Management 13