ADMS 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Resource Management, Strategic Choice, Interactional Justice

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 3422
• Professor: Ping Peng

Document Summary

Master-servant relationship: labour: a commodity that could be bought and sold at will, significant power imbalance between management and employees. Scientific management: specialization of tasks, workers perform simple tasks, management responsible for decision making. Human relations: managers and employees have conflicting views, values, effective management practices can minimize the conflict between managers and employees. Human resources management: equity and fairness is important, distributive, procedural, and interactional justice. Ir decisions are made at three levels: all three levels must work in one direction in order to achieve major goals, strategic choices can have a longer-term impact on all actors in the ir system. Hrm strategies (practices, policies, philosophy) must support the business strategies. Union acceptance: management sees unionization as a democratic right, accepts that part, if not all, of its operations will be unionized. Union resistance: management seeks to limit the spread of unions in the firm.