MHR 523 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Relations Movement, Performance Appraisal, Scientific Management
2 Mar 2017
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Knowledge, egucation, training, skills, and expertise of firms workers. Scientific management: process of scientifically analyzing manufacturing processes, reducing production costs, and compensating employees based on their performance levels. Incentives of getting paid more if you worked harder leg to higher wages, increased profits, and workplace harmony. The human resources movement: concern for people and productiviy. Human resources movment: a management philosophy focusing on concern for people and productivity. Personnel administrators fired and hired, ran payroll, gave benefits. After depression: minimum wage act, unemployment insurance program, protection of workers right to belong to unions. Legal compliance added to responsibility of personnel managers. These managers also dealt with human relations movement. Orientation, performance appraisal, and employee relations also added to their job. Government legislation passed during 60s, 70s, and 80s that affected human rights, wages, and benefits, working conditions, health and safety, and penalties if not met. Provide expertise in compensation, recruitment, and training but in expanded capacity.
