GMS 401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Common Hardware Reference Platform, Paternalism, Contingent Work
25 Feb 2014
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Economic factors facing canadian business today, including global trade challenges to increase one"s own competitiveness and productivity levels. Surviving a recessionary cycle: hr managers face challenges during recession such as carrying out unpleasant tasks of planning, communicating and implementing employee layoffs, workforce morale is low during recessions thus, supplementary employee counseling might be necessary. Contracting tasks to outside agencies or persons. Technological challenges: technology influences organizations and the way people work, computerization. Computerization: a major technological change allows the processing of cast amounts of data at great speeds, enabling organizations to improve efficiency responsiveness and flexibility in operations. Key developments in computerizations: processing large volumes of information on a o timely basis. They make it possible to process and prove large amounts of data to managers. They make information available with great speed: flexible work design and telecommuting. Computers bring considerable flexibility into when and where the work is carried out.
