MHR 523 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intranet, Team Dynamics

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6 hrm responsibilities: operational: job analysis, hr planning, selecting employees, training employees, managing compensation, communicating with employees. Globalization : emergence of a single global market for most products / services. Discrimination direct differential/unequal treatment indirectly based on association i. e. not being hired for a job due to one"s race or gender. Discrimination apparently neutral policies have adverse impact on protected groups i. e. minimum height requirement: human rights legislation mandates employers must accommodate to point of undue hardship". Justifiable reason for discrimination: harassment is unwelcome behaviour that demeans, humiliates, or embarrasses a person and that a reasonable person should have known would be unwelcome. Sexual harassment is offensive or humiliating behaviour that is related to a person"s sex, as well as behaviour of a sexual nature that creates an intimidating, unwelcome, hostile, or offensive work environment. Internal recruitment methods: job postings (board & company intranet: human resources records, skills inventories.

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Techniques for building employee empowerment include:

a. building communication networks that include employees.

b. developing open, supportive supervisors

c. building high-morale organizations.

d. moving responsibility from both managers and staff to production employees.

e. All of the answers are techniques for employee empowerment.

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To implement a policy of empowerment, the organization will restructure so that:

A. managers have more responsibility and employees learn to follow directions.

B. employees assume more responsibility.

C. workers agree to work overtime without extra pay.

D. an entire level of management is removed from the organization.

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Discussion

In this Unit, you will evaluate and address culture anddiversity in the workplace. Before continuing on to answer thequestions, review the following PREZIâ¢ presentation: âUnderstandingthe Cultural Dimensions of an Organization.â

Read the article âGetting a Read on Corporate Cultureâ

Read the information on IFRS.

Additionally, your internship/externship employer should haveprovided you with an employee manual that outlines theorganizational policies and procedures. An important part of anyemployee manual is the organizationâs policy statement on cultureand diversity. If your internship/externship employer does not havea policy statement with regard to culture and diversity, you willneed to analyze the organization's position on culture anddiversity based on your experiences and observations.

Answer the following questions about your experiences andobservations at your internship/externship organization with regardto cultural literacy in personal and professional environments:

What are some basic dimensions that describe the culturalorientation of your externship employer organization?

What are some of the major characteristics of diversity in yourexternship employer organization?

What privacy issues impact stakeholders in your externshipemployer organization?

Based on your observations, are there motivational differencesbetween employees across cultures in your externship employerorganization?

Be sure to discuss the following topics within your answerpost:

Apply cultural literacy in personal and professionalenvironments.

Respect for other cultures

Communicate and adopt across cultures

Impact of actions on you and others

Aware of the value of and limitations

Sources:

The Society for Experiential Learning and Development (2012).Understanding the cultural dimensions of an organization [PreziPresentation]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.seld.us/understanding-the-cultural-dimensions-of-an-organization/

Career Arc Group (2012). Getting a read on corporate culture.Retrieved fromhttp://www.internships.com/student/resources/workplace/the-first-few-days/getting-a-read-on-corporate-culture

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