MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Resource Management, Human Relations Movement, Hawthorne Effect

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Danielle Lamb

Document Summary

Human resources management (hrm): the management of people in organizations to drive successful organizational performance and achievement of organization"s strategic goals. Human capital: the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of an organization"s workforce. Ocd, methodical person in and out of the workplace. Ideal employee is fast, strong, doesn"t think too much + isn"t too smart. Studies conducted at the hawthorne plant of western electric that were concerned with the impact of fatigue, rest pauses, and lighting on employee productivity. Emphasis on contribution and proactive management of people. Every line manager must possess basic hr skills. New roles: activist, change steward, talent manager/organizational designer, operational executor and business ally. Strategy: the formulation of organizational missions, goals, objectives and action plans for achievement that explicitly recognize the competition and the impact of outside environmental forces. Type into google, people were sent invitations for interviews to work at google. Increasing workforce diversity: visible and ethnic minorities; women; aboriginal ----