Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Chapter 1: HRM Chapter 1 notes.docx

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

Document Summary

Human resource management (hrm) is an integrated set of processes, programs, and systems in an organization that focuses on the effective deployment and development of its employees. The word employee is also intended to cover contract workers, people from other organizations who are working on a project, or any other similar working relationship. The term human resources implies that people are as important to the success of any business as other resources are, such as money, materials, machinery, and information. Organizational, work, and job design: determining what tasks need to be done, in what order, with what skills, and how individual tasks fit together in work units. Planning: ensuring that people in the organization are the right people with the right skills at the right time in the right place. Recruitment and selection: sourcing, attracting, and hiring the people with the necessary skills and background.