1. Chapter 10 Human Resource Management

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Human Resource management purpose and Role
Old view
Modern view

7. 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.

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

9. Activity 10.1

10. 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

11. Recruiting and selecting staff

12. Examples of job postings

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. Employment contracts Temporary employment contract:
Part time employment contract:

22. Employment contracts
Flexi-time contract:
Outsourcing:

23. 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

24. Advantages for the firm
Disadvantages for the firm
Advantages for the workers
Disadvantages for the workers

25. Homework and practice
Do activity 10.5

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