COMM 410 Study Guide - Sweet Charity, Remittance, Absenteeism
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Ch 1the role of hrm: what is human resources management? (hrm) Refers to the management of people in organization. Activities, polices, and practices involved in obtaining, developing, utilizing, evaluating, maintaining, and retaining the appropriate number and skill mix of employees to accomplish the organization"s objective. To maximize an employee"s contribution in order to achieve optimal productivity. In small organization, the line manager might also be responsible for it. In bigger organization, there will be staff managers advising line manager what to do. They will be responsible for utilized hr effectively, managed in compliance with company policies and procedures, government legislation and in unionized settings, collative agreement. The activities they are doing are: serving as consultant and strategic change agent, offering advice, formulating policies and procedures, providing services, and monitoring to ensure compliance. In most case, hr professionals serves as a in house consultant to line managers. Their jobs are: recruiting, job evaluation, selecting activities to be outsourced.
