Human Resouce Management Homework
Human Resource Management
Chapter 1 Questions
The following questions address the major issues that you should know from this chapter. Please make sure that you thoroughly answer each question. Each question requires that you explain/describe/discuss the answer. 1. What are the 7 basic categories of Human Resource activities? Briefly describe what each category contains.
Strategic HR Management: Maintains competitiveness through planning, metrics, and technology
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity): Compliance and diversity with laws that affect all other aspects of HR activities
Staffing: To provide qualified workers to fill a job in a business or organization.
Talent Management and Development: to provide different types of training , as well as succession planning ,career planning and, performance management
Total Rewards: Compensation in pay, incentive and benefits
Risk Management and Worker protection: Health, Safety, Security and, disaster recovery planning all have to meet legal requirements
Employee and Labor Relations: involves the relationship between employer and employees and how it must be handled legally and effectively.
2. The textbook describes the concept of organizational culture. In your words please explain this concept and why it’s important. The concept of a organizational culture to me means that everyone within an organization needs to have the same opinions and views so they can maintain a certain stability within an organization. Its important because it will provide aan all around better outcome for employees and employers alike as well as better products and customer satisfaction.
3. Use your words to explain the concept of productivity. Why do you think HR is concerned with this? Briefly describe four methods used by HR to enhance productivity. To have better products and more of it using less cost. You want to be the most effective and productive in human resources and if affects the profits.
Chapter 1 Questions
The following questions address the major issues that you should know from this chapter. Please make sure that you thoroughly answer each question. Each question requires that you explain/describe/discuss the answer. 1. What are the 7 basic categories of Human Resource activities? Briefly describe what each category contains.
Strategic HR Management: Maintains competitiveness through planning, metrics, and technology
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity): Compliance and diversity with laws that affect all other aspects of HR activities
Staffing: To provide qualified workers to fill a job in a business or organization.
Talent Management and Development: to provide different types of training , as well as succession planning ,career planning and, performance management
Total Rewards: Compensation in pay, incentive and benefits
Risk Management and Worker protection: Health, Safety, Security and, disaster recovery planning all have to meet legal requirements
Employee and Labor Relations: involves the relationship between employer and employees and how it must be handled legally and effectively.
2. The textbook describes the concept of organizational culture. In your words please explain this concept and why it’s important. The concept of a organizational culture to me means that everyone within an organization needs to have the same opinions and views so they can maintain a certain stability within an organization. Its important because it will provide aan all around better outcome for employees and employers alike as well as better products and customer satisfaction.
3. Use your words to explain the concept of productivity. Why do you think HR is concerned with this? Briefly describe four methods used by HR to enhance productivity. To have better products and more of it using less cost. You want to be the most effective and productive in human resources and if affects the profits.