Professional Practices Ahsan Ali Ashraf Free Powerpoint Templates

Professional Practices Ahsan Ali Ashraf Free Powerpoint Templates Page 1

Week 6 Topic: Human Resource Management q Introduction q A model of Human Resource Management q Training and Human Resource Management q Health and Safety at Work q Health and Safety Act 1974 Free Powerpoint Templates Page 2

Introduction q It is a function in organizations designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives q Management of people, staff training and development with a strategic approach suggest that human resource management is particularly appropriate for software work Free Powerpoint Templates Page 3

The Manager’s Human Resource Management Jobs q Management process § The five basic functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. q Human resource management (HRM) § The policies and practices involved in carrying out the “people” or human resource aspects of a management position, including recruiting, screening, training, Free Powerpoint Templates rewarding, and appraising. Page 4 1– 4

Personnel Aspects Of A Manager’s Job q Conducting job analyses (determining the nature of each employee’s job) q Planning labor needs and recruiting job candidates q Selecting job candidates q Orienting and training new employees q Managing wages and salaries (compensating employees) q Providing incentives and benefits q Appraising performance q Communicating (interviewing, counseling, disciplining) Free Powerpoint Templates q Training and developing managers Page 5 1– 5

Personnel Mistakes q Hire the wrong person for the job q Experience high turnover q Have your people not doing their best q Waste time with useless interviews q Have your company in court because of discriminatory actions q Have your company receive penalties for unsafe practices q Have some employees think their salaries are unfair and inequitable relative to others in the organization Powerpoint q Allow a lack of training to. Free undermine your. Templates department’s effectiveness 1– 6 Page 6

A model of human resource management q A corresponding commitment to the organization is expected from employees. They are therefore autonomous in the sense of, to some degree, managing themselves. q Human resource management is the responsibility of all managers q Maximum utilization of human resources available to the enterprise. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 7

1 -Long-term, strategic and proactive in style q The problems associated with personnel in an information technology environment require a disciplined approach to establishing numbers of staff; the utilization of personnel; the development and education of employees, together with the construction of comprehensive human resource management policies that are not only responsive to immediate needs but also are building blocks for the medium- and long-term corporate requirements Free Powerpoint Templates Page 8

2 -Commitment to the organization q The real challenge is to shift employee attitudes from mere compliance with rules at work to commitment and self motivation q This signifies a commitment to staff development as part of the “learning organization” and firm-specific skills that are less transferable between firms. Skills include attendance, flexibility, responsibility, discipline, identification with the company and, crucially, work-rate. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 9

3 -Self-management q Team working is a vital element q Direct and regular face-to-face contact between managers and workers is emphasized. This builds trust and helps maintain motivation q The trick is to reconcile motivating individuals with teambuilding because it is teams, not individuals, who complete projects. Performance appraisal is central in HRM strategies Free Powerpoint Templates Page 10

4 -Unitary perspective q The entire enterprise is regarded as analogous to a team with one focus of loyalty and one focus of authority q A crucial part of keeping effective workers content is a system where they can be promoted without having to become managers q At Microsoft a talented software developer can stay just that and yet rise to the top tier of elite “architects”. These architects are not company directors despite their seniority Free Powerpoint Templates Page 11

5 -Maximum utilization of human resources q It’s a difficult task specially in information technology environment. q It is the possibility of computer surveillance of work rate that allows decision makers to look more critically now than ever before at work output in offices q Management gets the impression that the project is going well and has no idea what’s actually happening at the grass roots level. By the time they find out, it’s too late Free Powerpoint Templates Page 12

Training and human resource management q Despite universities establishing more IT and computing courses and applications rising strongly, the industry continues to generate more vacancies than capable recruits q Computing companies find that IT graduates often lack transferable or “people-handling” skills, such as communications and a broader knowledge of how businesses work Free Powerpoint Templates Page 13

Training and human resource management q Dr Neil Barrett, senior fellow at Bull, reckoned that “from an industry point of view, we are often better placed to take people with good generalist degrees and turn them into engineers” q Computer scientists are people who understand the finer details of software programming but cannot program. We have to start again and teach them the methods and tricks we work with. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 14

Health and Safety at Work q Health and safety at work usually only hits the headlines when there is a major disaster q In many high risk areas, the safety systems themselves are often computer controlled q Around 200 employees each year still die as a result of accidents at work Free Powerpoint Templates Page 15

Health and Safety Act 1974 q 1. Premises, i. e. factory, office etc. q 1. Employment is the only necessary criterion. q 2. Specific requirements q 2. General (and far-reaching) requirements q 3. No requirements on manufacturers or suppliers q 3. Creates comprehensive new duties for manufacturers and suppliers of articles and substances for use at work Free Powerpoint Templates Page 16

Health and Safety Act 1974 q 4. Regulations for specific industries and processes: rigorous but difficult to keep up to date in the face of rapidly changing technology. q 4. Specific regulations but couched in general terms and supplemented by approved codes of practice that are more easily updated. Free Powerpoint Templates Page 17

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