Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Offshoring, Strategic Thinking, Outsourcing

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

Document Summary

What are human resources: human resources describes those people or that that set of individuals who form workforce of an organization, business, industry, or economy, simply people. Why are people so valuable? valuable to an organization. What is strategic hrm: strategic hrm is the process of aligning human resources functions with organizational strategy in order to achieve long or short-term organizational goals, strategic thinking about hrm can assist the following emergent. Mergers and acquisitions: strategy is how an organization is going to organize their internal and external strengths and weaknesses. What do hr departments do: administrative services and transactions. Requires an understanding of the business: strategic partnership. Requires an understanding of the business, its industry, and its competitors. What are the key hr activities: fair human resource policies, complying with legislation, analyzing and designing jobs. How is responsible for this: recruitment and selection. Selection process linked to recruitment: training and development.