BUS 201 : Business Chapter 8 Study Guide.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 201
• Professor: Peter Tingling

Document Summary

The foundations of human resource management: human resource management is the set of organizational activities directing at attracting, developing, and maintaining an effective workforce. Job analysis: systematic analysis of jobs with an organization. Job description list the duties of a job, its working conditions, and the tools, materials, and equipment used to perform it. Recruiting human resources: recruiting, the process of attracting qualified people to apply for available jobs. Internal recruiting: considering present employees as candidates for openings, external recruiting, attracting people outside the organization to apply for jobs. Internships: short-term paid positions where students focus on a specific project are increasingly popular. Training and development: on the job training, those development programs in which employees gain new skills while performing them at work. Evaluating employee performance: performance appraisals, a formal program for evaluating how well an employee is perform the job; helps managers to determine how effective they are in recruiting and selecting employees.