COMM 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Resource Management, Job Analysis, Job Sharing

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 1010
• Professor: Carolan McLarney

Document Summary

Employee are the most important resources of the film. The role of the human resource management is a function of all managers. 1. 1 definition: hrm is the set of organizational activities directed at attracting, developing, and maintaining an effective workforce. 1. 2. 2 finding the people to fill those needs; 1. 2. 3 optimize this resource through appropriate incentives and rich work environment. Technology and globalization have let to downsizing of the workforce; Stronger emphasis on teamwork quality and customer satisfaction; Shortage of trained workers in high tech area; (canada will reach 4% of population have ability to read code in 20 years) 3. 2 huge number of unskilled workers in obsolete fields; 3. 4 aging of the workforce; (ask retirement average age is 71-year-old) 3. 7 need for flexible and changing benefit programs to cope with all these challenges. 4. 6 developing a strategic plan for recruiting selecting, training, appraising and scheduling. Improve performances by increasing an employees" ability to perform through training;