Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Job Analysis, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Workforce Planning

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MOS 1021A/B Full Course Notes
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Human resource management = policies, practices, and syste(cid:373)s that i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:373)ployees" (cid:271)ehaviour, attitudes, a(cid:374)d performance. Employees are valuable to organizations they provide the experience, judgment, intelligence, and other characteristics needed to create a profitable organization with high quality goods/services and satisfied customers. Hr departments engage in the following functions: job analysis, workforce planning, recruitment, selection, training/development, performance management, compensation/rewards, employee/labour relations. Also important at every step along the way are legal issues and research. Ethics should guide everything that an organization does. Employees either set their own goals or have the goals set for them. Primary: collect our own data (laboratory experiment, quasi-experiment, questionnaire, observation) Secondary: we examine data collected from others (meta-analysis) Depends on jurisdiction (e. g. , schools fall under provincial, banks fall under federal) Eliminates employment barriers for women, members of visible minorities (non-caucasian), aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities. Protection of privacy (pipeda) protection of information privacy and electronic documents act. Wages, hours of work, vacation time, etc.