1. Overview of HRM Dessler Chapter 1 HRM Reader Handouts

2. Agenda – 1/27/05 Finish Syllabus Questions or Comments Reminders and Announcements Overview of HRM Discussion Next Week

3. Syllabus Your Guide to the Semester

4. Questions and Comments? About the Course? About Your Instructor?

5. Reminder Last Day to Add/Drop Via CasperWeb is February 4, 2005

6. Human Resource Management Association (HRMA) Meets Thursday Nights 7:30 – 8:30 Starting Next Thursday (2/3/05)

7. Defining HRM What is HRM? Convergent and Divergent From OB, MIS, OT, Mkt When Do Organizations Utilize HRM? Why Is HRM Vital to Organizations?

8. Overview of HRM Traditional View of HRM Strategic View of HRM Modern Forces Shaping HRM Globalization, Technology, Demographics, and Outsourcing Managing HRM and Implementing HRM

9. Outcomes of HRM Performance A Behavior not an Outcome F(M x A) Motivation EDS Person vs. Environment Commitment To Whom? Do We Really Have this Now? Satisfaction Is a Happy Worker a Productive Worker? Whimsical at Best, Destructive at Worst

10. Discussion Trends in HRM Local and Global Outsourcing Workforce Demographics Technology Future of HRM Centralized vs. Decentralized Does HRM Matter?

11. Next Week Job Analysis Dessler Chapter 3 1 st Performance Report is Due Next Friday (by Email…Follow Syllabus) Catch Up on Readings from Today’s Class HRM Reader Handouts