Reflective Journal Human Resources Management Professor: Amy Tucker John Smith 100470658 May 1‚ 2012 May 7th Lecture #1 The Strategic Role of Human Resources Management When I first registered for this course I didn’t fully understand what the disciple of Human Resource Management entitled. I thought that those working in the human resources dealt solely with the recruiting and dismissal of individuals. However‚ after reading the first chapter of the textbook it became very clear
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Human Resource Development- The Heart of any Organization People are the real assets of an organization. If treated well they can take the organizations to commanding heights. Organizations are generally driven by a set of predetermined goals. They employ physical‚ financial and human resources in order to achieve the goals. These goals have no meaning unless people understand the underlying philosophy translate them into concrete action plans and put their heart while realizing the targets. Organizations
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Human Resource Planning Human Resource Planning is the process of anticipating and carrying out the movement of people into‚ within‚ and out of the organization. Human resources planning is done to achieve the optimum use of human use of human resources and to have the correct number and types of employees needed to meet organizational goals. Importance of Human Resource Planning • Ensures optimum use of man (woman‚ too nowadays?) • Forecast future requirements • Help determine
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MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES TASK 1 – Be able to understand the different perspectives of human resource management. 1.1 Explain Guest’s model of HRM The Guest’s Model aim to differentiate personnel management from human resource management and therefore states that human resource management is commitment based rather than compliance based as practiced by personnel management. By this‚ he sees human resource management as going beyond recruitment and training of employees to
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Appraisal systems can serve a human service organization in a great deal of ways. Two major purposes are for appraisals are for administrative and development of a human service organization. From the administrative view the purpose of a performance appraisal system may include decisions about a change in job duties‚ promotions‚ or reward decisions. Developmental purposes include helping staff achieve optimum performance‚ evaluating staff ’s strengths or weaknesses and establishing whether or not
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QUESTION 1 It is only companies that put extra effort and resources into developing‚ training and properly incentivising their workforce that will be able to retain their good staff. Critically discuss how Pfizer‚ with their biggest challenge being “the skills shortage and the retention of talented and skilled staff”‚ attempts to overcome this challenge. 1.1 Introduction The twenty-first century is characterized by businesses that are evolving in a rapidly changing and competitive environment
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2.1. Analyze the need for human resource planning‚ the information required and the stages involved in this process Human Resource planning is the assessment of HR requirements and time and stages of requirement. It is to obtaining the right numbers and kinds of people at the right time to fulfil organizational needs (Burach & Mathys‚ 1980 cited in Diamante & Ledesma-Tan book‚ p. 37) Human resource planning is important and on-going because of the changes and trends that are happening.
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Task 1 i) The Human Resource Management or personnel function of ASDA covers a variety of activities. The term ’Human Resource Management’ has largely replaced the old-fashioned word ’personnel’‚ which was used in the past. The types of work covered in the Human resource function might include the following: ·A Policy-making role - This is important because the Human resourcesdepartment need to be making big policies thatcover the place of work and the importance of thepeople in ASDA. ·A Welfare
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Rogers‚ Jung‚ and Piaget. In turn‚ Kolb’s learning styles model and experiential learning theory are today acknowledged by academics‚ teachers‚ managers and trainers as truly seminal works; fundamental concepts towards our understanding and explaining human learning behaviour‚ and towards helping others to learn A note about Learning Styles in young people’s education: Towards the end of the first decade of the 2000s a lobby seems to have grown among certain educationalists and educational researchers
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Topic4. What recruitment and selection approach should be adopted in order to achieve the ‘best practice’ of HRM within an organization? Discussing the close links between this function and human resource planning‚ work analysis‚ job design‚ and human resource development (using examples). With the development of global economy‚ market competition to a large extent means competing for talents. To prosper‚ corporations must keep their pools of talents in good shape‚ which demands highly of sound
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