Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Job Satisfaction, Business Partner, Human Capital

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Bonnie Simpson

Document Summary

Human resource management (hrm) policies, practices and systems that influence employees" behaviour, attitudes and performance (in an organization) 3 product lines of hr: administrative services and transactions. Hypotheses a formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables: hypotheses are not necessarily accurate we simply wish to test our hypotheses to determine their support. Variable measure that can take on two or more values. Independent variables (iv) influence the dependant variable and predict or cause variation in the dependant variable: dependant variables (dv) influenced by the independent variable, vary as a result of changes to the independent variable. Primary research methods methods that generate new information on a particular research question: laboratory experiments conducted in contrives settings where investigator manipulates independent variables and randomly assigns participants to different conditions. Correlation: the correlation coefficient reflects the degree of linear relationship between two variables, data can come from questionnaires, interviews, organizational records, correlation =/= causation.