Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Resource Management, Workforce Planning, Discriminant Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

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(please note: this is a brief summary of the lecture material only. Mos 1021b winter 2017: exam #1 summary lecture notes for studying. ) behaviour, attitudes, and performance. Human resource management = policies, practices, and systems that influence employees". 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 customer. 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. Evidence-based management- translating principles into practice based on the best scientific evidence rather than personal preference. Hypotheses- formal statement of the expected relationships between two variables, not necessarily accurate. Employees either set their own goals or have the goals set for them.