PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Culture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Human resource management responsibilities: two categories, operational/administrative: hire & maintain employees and manage employee separations. Hr staff = administrative experts and employee champions: strategic: focused on ensuring that the organization is staffed with the most effective human capital to achieve its strategic goals. Hr staff strategic partners and change agents. Give competitive intelligence that may be useful as company makes strategic plans (successful plan being used by a competitor, labour shortages etc) Role in executing strategies: biggests strategic contribution. Workforce issues increase work force diversity visible and ethnic minorities, women, aboriginal population, persons with disabilities: generational differences: Traditionalists: senior group born before 1946; grew up in hard era (world. War); tend to be quiet, shy, loyal, self sacrificing; many have retired. Baby boomers: born between 1946-1964; largest group in workforce; tend to be career focused and workaholics driven to succeed; aging and approaching retirement.