2. Managing Human Resources
Chapter 18
Managing Human Resources
18.1
Developing and Keeping Human Resources
18.2
Motivating Employees

3. Identify the components of human resource management.
18.1
Identify the components of human resource management.
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4. People are the most important resource of a small business.
18.1
People are the most important resource of a small business.
Employees have a big effect on a company’s performance.
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5. human resource management labor union educational activities
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human resources
human resource management
labor union
educational activities
developmental activities
cost effective
employee complaint procedure
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
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6. Human Resource Management
The human resources of a company represent one of its largest investments.
human resources the people employed in a business, commonly referred to as personnel
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7. Human Resource Management
The primary goals of human resource management are to facilitate performance and improve productivity.
human resource management the part of business concerned with recruiting and managing employees
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8. Components of Human Resource Management
Recruiting
Recruiting and screening employees
Managing union dealings
Managing
Overseeing employee training and development
Overseeing
Overseeing pay and benefits
Overseeing
Resolving day-to-day problems
Resolving
Ensuring
Ensuring equal opportunity
Handling
Handling employee termination
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9. Recruiting and Screening Employees
You can find new employees by:
recruiting from within
recruiting from competitors
recruiting with ads, job boards, employment agencies, and word of mouth
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10. Managing Dealings with Unions
Labor unions strengthen workers’ ability to bargain for wages, benefits, working conditions, and other concerns.
labor unions organizations that represent workers in their dealings with employers
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11. Overseeing Training and Development
Businesses should include educational activities and developmental activities to employee training.
educational activities actions, such as a human relations workshop, that prepare employees for advancing in the organization
developmental activities actions, such as an industry conference, that prepare managers to lead the company into the future
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12. Overseeing Training and Development
After your training program is up and running, you should evaluate it to see how cost effective it is and whether the program’s objectives were achieved.
cost effective economically worthwhile in terms of what is achieved for the amount of money spent
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13. Training and Development Techniques
Overseeing Training and Development
On-the-job training
Conferences and seminars
Vestibule training
Training and Development Techniques
Classroom teaching
Job rotation
Mentoring
Coaching
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14. Resolving Day-to-Day Problems
Employee conflicts can be resolved in an objective manner when an employee complaint procedure is in place.
employee complaint procedure a formal procedure for handling employee complaints, usually in writing and distributed to employees
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15. Ensuring Equal Opportunity
As an employer and manager, you must ensure that employees are not discriminated against.
One law you should know about is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act a federal law that requires that employers treat their pregnant employees like all other employees when determining benefits
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16. Handling Problem Employees and Termination
Sometimes employees do not work out, or they perform below expectations.
In those instances, you may have to resort to professional counseling or assistance, disciplinary action, or termination.
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17. Identify the components of human resource management.
18.1
Identify the components of human resource management.
Human resource management includes recruiting and screening employees, managing dealings with unions, overseeing employee training and development, overseeing pay and benefits, resolving day-to-day problems, ensuring equal opportunity, and handling employee terminations.
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18. Explain how managers influence motivation.
18.2
Explain how managers influence motivation.
Explain ways to maximize employee performance
Explain the importance of delegation
Explain how to assess motivational techniques used to increase performance levels.
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19. One of an entrepreneur’s tasks is to motivate employees.
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One of an entrepreneur’s tasks is to motivate employees.
Employees who are motivated produce more and better work.
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20. management-by-objectives work team performance evaluation
18.2
Theory X
Theory Y
hygiene factors
motivating factors
job enlargement
job enrichment
telecommuting
family leave
flextime
management-by-objectives
work team
performance evaluation
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21. How Managers Influence Motivation
Communication is a key factor in employee motivation.
How employees are regarded and treated also affects their motivation.
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22. Assumptions Managers Make
In The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas McGregor identifies two sets of assumptions managers make about employees: Theory X and Theory Y.
Theory X an assumption that states the belief that employees are basically lazy and need constant supervision
Theory Y an assumption that states the belief that employees are motivated to work and thrive in a culture that supports motivation
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23. Hygiene Factors Versus Motivating Factors
According to research, two types of factors motivate workers: hygiene factors and motivating factors.
hygiene factors factors that do not improve a situation, but keep
situations from getting worse
motivating factors factors that motivate employees, such as achievement, recognition, responsibility, advancement, growth, and the reward from doing the work itself
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24. Maximizing Employee Performance
To improve employee motivation:
Provide meaningful work.
Allow scheduling flexibility.
Involve employees in decision making.
Give recognition.
Provide performance evaluations.
Reward performance.
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25. Provide Meaningful Work
You can redesign your employees’ jobs through job enlargement and job enrichment.
job enlargement the act of increasing the tasks, responsibilities, and scope of a job
job enrichment the act of making a job more rewarding and less monotonous for the worker by adding elements at a different or higher skill level
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26. Allow Scheduling Flexibility
Flexible schedule techniques include:
telecommuting
family leave
flextime
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27. Allow Scheduling Flexibility
Telecommuting for employees has been made possible because of computers, communications technology, and overnight delivery services.
telecommuting the act of performing some or all of a job away from the business
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28. Allow Scheduling Flexibility
Large companies must offer family leave under federal law.
family leave a policy that allows employees to take time off work to attend to significant personal events, such a births, deaths, and family illness, without fear of job loss
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29. Allow Scheduling Flexibility
Businesses that offer flextime allow employees to adjust their work schedules to suit their personal needs.
flextime a policy that allows employees to choose the work hours and days that are most effective for their personal lives
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30. Involve Employees in Decision Making
One way to involve employees in the decision-making process is management-by-objectives.
management-by-objectives a management technique that involves employees in setting their own objectives and gauging their own progress
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31. Involve Employees in Decision Making
Forming a work team in your business is another means of involving employees in decision making.
work team a group of employees assigned a task without direct supervision and with responsibility for their results
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32. Provide Performance Evaluations
A performance evaluation can be motivational when suggestions for improvement present the employee with something to strive for, a measure of future accomplishment.
performance evaluation the process of judging how well an employee has performed the duties and responsibilities associated with a job, usually for the purpose of contract renewal or promotion
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33. Delegating Responsibility
When you delegate responsibility, you give an employee the authority to and responsibility for carrying out some of your work.
Delegating responsibility gives you more time to work on other things and also motives the employee.
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34. Evaluating Employee Motivational Techniques
Motivational techniques that require a large commitment of time and resources should be asked to determine if they are:
working as a motivator
in need of revision
worth the cost
able to be done a better way
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35. Explain how managers influence motivation.
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Explain how managers influence motivation.
Managers influence motivation by communicating with their employees. Managers must communicate goals and objectives if they expect employees to meet them. Managers also influence employee motivation by the way they treat their employees.
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36. Explain ways to maximize employee performance.
18.2
Explain ways to maximize employee performance.
Ways to maximize employee performance include providing meaningful work, allowing scheduling flexibility, involving employees in decision making, giving recognition, providing performance evaluations, and rewarding performance.
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37. Explain the importance of delegation.
18.2
Explain the importance of delegation.
Delegation allows an owner to work on other things, it motivates the employee, it shows confidence in the employee, and it prepares the employee for more responsibilities.
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38. 18.2
Explain how to assess motivational techniques used to increase performance levels.
Motivational techniques that require a large commitment of time and resources, such as awards banquets, should be formally assessed to determine whether they are working as motivators, whether they need revision, whether they are worth the cost, and whether they can be done a better way.
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39. Positioning a Web Site
When someone does an Internet search, they will receive hundreds of pages and links to other sites.
Since most viewers give their primary attention to the first few Web pages, businesses try to have theirs on top.
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40. Tech Terms
crawler
a program used to compile into a search engine information about Web sites
keyword
a word or phrase you type to begin an online search
meta tags
information coded within the HTML programming of a Web page
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41. Tech Terms pay-per-click
a search engine payment model in which companies only pay for clicks to the destination site through the search engine site based on a prearranged rate
pay-per-performance
a search engine payment model in which companies pay a fee to be listed at the top of the search results page
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42. Tech Terms
position
the place a search engine result falls on the results list in a Web search
search engine
an online software application that creates indexes of Internet sites based on the titles of files, keywords, or the full text of files
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