Chapter 10 Human Resource Management

Agenda – Australia and China Resource management introduction reading What is human resource management and what is the their purpose and role Planning the workforce Activity 10.1

Learning Goals Understand the role and purpose of the human resource manager in an organization Analyse the importance of staff in recruitment and selection to an organization Evaluate the different approaches to recruitment and selection Assess the different types of employment contracts that can be offered to staff Discuss the importance of staff training and staff development in increasing the efficiency and motivation of the workforce. Appreciate the relationship between human resource management, staff motivation and staff welfare in a business organization

Introduction Topic Read the Australia and China-Human Resource management in two countries and answer the 3 questions on page 181 Be ready to discuses it with the class.

Introduction Human resource management (HRM): The strategic approach to the effective management of an organisation’s workers so that they help the business gain a competitive advantage

Human Resource management purpose and Role Old view Modern view

Planning the workforce needs of the business-strategic workforce planning Workforce planning: analysing and forecasting the number of workers and the skills of those workers that will be required by the organisation to achieve its objective. Workforce audit: a check on the skills and qualification of all existing workers/managers.

Planning the workforce need of the business-strategic workforce planning # of staff required depend on: The skills of the staff required

Activity 10.1

Agenda- Take-up activity 10.1 Recruiting and selecting staff Examples of job postings Benefits of international and external recruiting Activity make a job posting

Recruiting and selecting staff

Examples of job postings

Benefits of internal and external recruitment –pg 185 Benefits of internal recruitment Benefits of external recruitment

Activity Draw up a job description for the principal’s post at our school. Make a detailed person specification for this post Make it eye catching and effective for a newspaper or online advertisement

Agenda- What is training and different types of training? Employment contracts Role play activity for employee discipline Up in the Air-employee dismissal examples Activity 10.4 for HW Activity 10.5

Training “one reason commonly given by firms for not training their staff is that these well-trained staff will then be approached by other firms.” Maybe those firm should focus more on motivating their employees to stay.

Different types of training: Induction training: given to all new recruits On-the-job training: involves instructions at the place of work Off-the-job training: courses of instruction away from the place of work Training is expensive so you want to make sure that you keep your qualified staff through effective motivation techniques. Development and appraisal should be a continuous process

Drawing up contracts of employment Employment contract: is a legal document that sets out the terms and conditions governing worker's job Lets look at some examples

Discipline and dismissal of employees Role play activity for employee discipline Up in the Air-employee dismissal examples Dismissal: ending a worker’s employment contract for incompetence or breach of discipline. Unfair dismissal: ending a work's employment contract for a reason that the law regards as being unfair.

Staff redundancies Redundancy: is when a job is no longer required, so the employee doing this job becomes redundant through no fault of his/her own. Do Activity 10.4

Employment contracts Temporary employment contract: Part time employment contract:

Employment contracts Flexi-time contract: Outsourcing:

Employment contracts Recent trends in labour recruitment have been towards employing more part-time staff on temporary contracts and using outsourcing more often. These have advantages and drawback to both the business and the staff. Read page 190 and summarize these advantages and disadvantages

Advantages for the firm Disadvantages for the firm Advantages for the workers Disadvantages for the workers

Homework and practice Do activity 10.5

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