MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Balanced Scorecard, Primary Sector Of The Economy, Organisation Climate
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Human resource management (hrm): the management of people in organizaions to drive successful organizaions to drive successful organizaional performance and achievement of the organizaion"s strategic goals. The process of scieniically analyzing manufacturing processes to reduce costs and compensaing employees based on performance. A management philosophy focusing on concern for both people and producivity. Hrm was called personnel administraion: played a very minor or non-existent role. Responsibiliies : for hiring and iring ( a duty formerly looked ater by irst-line supervisors), ran the payroll department and administered beneits. Their job was mainly focused on ensuring that procedures were followed. Operaional eiciency increased but wage increases did not keep up, cause workers to distrust management. Result: increasing in unionizaion led to personnel departments serving as the primary contact for representaives. Ater the depression of 1930s, various pieces of legislaion were enacted, including minimum wage act, an unemployment insurance program and protecion of workers" right to belong to unions.
