BUSI 3102 Study Guide - Common Hardware Reference Platform, Outsourcing, Jab
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Session 1 chapter 1 intro to human resources. Globalization: the process of interconnecting the world of persons from the position of their relation with culture, economy, politics, technology, and environment. Multinational corporations: organizations maintaining various operations in the whole world, having their headquarters centralized in one country. The way organizations manage people to create their objectives, the innovations and the accomplishments for which organizations are praised. People are resources and without them organizations would not exist. Human resource challenges: technological computerization and automation, economic global trade challenge and challenge of productivity improvement, demographic more women in work force, shift to knowledge workers, educational. Attainment of workers, employment of older, more part time/contingent/contract. Workers: cultural attitudes towards work, ethnic diversity, attitudes towards government, legal employment equity, hr laws, charter of rights, min wage acts, safety. Canadian hr department challenges: organizational culture change in expectations, demand for ethical businesses, ethnic. 2. diversity, poor attitudes towards gov"nt, economic situation.
