HR Challenges
Chapter 1 Meeting present and emerging strategic HR challenges
Types of Employees
Environmental challenges
Organization challenges
Individual challenges
Planning and implementing strategic HR choices
Benefits/Challenges of HR planning
Strategic HR Choices
Work flows
Staffing
Employee separations
Selecting HR strategies to increase firm performance
Fit with organizational strategies
Corporate strategies
Business Unit Strategies
Fit with the environment
Fit with Organizational Characteristics
Fit with Organizational Capabilities
HR Best Practices
Types of Employees
Managers: people who are in charge of others and responsible for the timely and correct execution of actions that promote their units’ successful performance.
HR or personnel: people who work in an organization.
Line employee: an employee involved directly in producing the company’s goods or delivering the services.
Staff employee: an employee who supports the line function
Senior employees are those who have been with the company longer and have more responsibility than junior employees.
Exempt employees (sometimes called salaried employees) are those who do not receive extra pay for overtime work (beyond 40 hours per week).
Nonexempt employees do receive overtime compensation.
Environmental challenges:
Forces external to a firm that affect the firm’s performance but are beyond the control of management.
Rapid Change
New Company Town: companies are taking the best aspects of home and incorporating them into work.
Dealing with stress: rapid change and work overload can put employees under a great deal of stress keep stress manageable.
The rise of the Internet
Necessitating greater written communication skills: keep fickle Internet customers loyal and email also involves legal issues.
Dealing with information overflow
Breaking down labor market barriers
Use online learning
Enabling HR to focus on management: enables firms to handle many
Types of Employees
Environmental challenges
Organization challenges
Individual challenges
Planning and implementing strategic HR choices
Benefits/Challenges of HR planning
Strategic HR Choices
Work flows
Staffing
Employee separations
Selecting HR strategies to increase firm performance
Fit with organizational strategies
Corporate strategies
Business Unit Strategies
Fit with the environment
Fit with Organizational Characteristics
Fit with Organizational Capabilities
HR Best Practices
Types of Employees
Managers: people who are in charge of others and responsible for the timely and correct execution of actions that promote their units’ successful performance.
HR or personnel: people who work in an organization.
Line employee: an employee involved directly in producing the company’s goods or delivering the services.
Staff employee: an employee who supports the line function
Senior employees are those who have been with the company longer and have more responsibility than junior employees.
Exempt employees (sometimes called salaried employees) are those who do not receive extra pay for overtime work (beyond 40 hours per week).
Nonexempt employees do receive overtime compensation.
Environmental challenges:
Forces external to a firm that affect the firm’s performance but are beyond the control of management.
Rapid Change
New Company Town: companies are taking the best aspects of home and incorporating them into work.
Dealing with stress: rapid change and work overload can put employees under a great deal of stress keep stress manageable.
The rise of the Internet
Necessitating greater written communication skills: keep fickle Internet customers loyal and email also involves legal issues.
Dealing with information overflow
Breaking down labor market barriers
Use online learning
Enabling HR to focus on management: enables firms to handle many