HRM10eChap01.ppt

Human Resource
Management
TENTH EDITON
© 2003 Southwestern College Publishing. All rights reserved.
Changing Nature of Human
Resource Management
Chapter 1
Robert L. Mathis  John H. Jackson
PowerPoint Presentation
by Charlie Cook
SECTION 1
Nature of
Human
Resource
Management

© 2002 Southwestern College Publishing. All rights reserved. 1–2
Learning Objectives
After you have read this chapter, you should be
able to:
– Define HR management and explain why managers
and HR staff must work together.
– List and define the seven categories of of HR
activities.
– Identify three challenges facing HR today.
– Describe the four roles of HR management.
– Discuss why ethical issues affect HR management.

Nature of Human Resource Management
 Human Resource Management
– The design of formal systems in an organization to
ensure effective and efficient use of human talent
to accomplish organizational goals.
 Who Is an HR Manager?
– In the course carrying out their duties, every
operating manager is, in essence, an HR manager.
– HR specialists design processes and systems that
operating managers help implement.

Typical Division of HR Responsibilities
 HR Unit
– Develops legal, effective
interviewing techniques
– Trains managers in
conducting selection
interviews
– Conducts interviews and
testing
– Sends top three applicants
to managers for final
review
– Checks references
– Does final interviewing and
hiring for certain job
classifications
 Managers
– Advise HR of job openings
– Decide whether to do own
final interviewing
– Receive interview training
from HR unit
– Do final interviewing and
hiring where appropriate
– Review reference
information
– Provide feedback to HR
unit on hiring/rejection
decisions
Figure 1–1

HR Activities
 HR Planning and Analysis
 Equal Employment Opportunity
 Staffing
 HR Development
 Compensation and Benefits
 Health, Safety, and Security
 Employee and Labor/Management Relations

HR Management
Activities
Figure 1–2

HR Management Challenges
 Economic and Technological Changes
– Shift in jobs for manufacturing and agriculture to
service industries and telecommunications.
– Pressures of global competition causing firms to
adapt by lowering costs and increasing productivity.
– Growth of information technology (Internet).

Jobs of the Future
Figure 1–3
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2001.

 Workforce Availability and Quality
– Inadequate supply of workers with needed skills for
“knowledge jobs”
– Education of workers in basic skills
 Growth in Contingent Workforce
– Increases in temporary workers, independent
contractors, leased employees, and part-timers
caused by:
• Need for flexibility in staffing levels
• Increased difficulty in firing regular employees.
• Reduced legal liability from contract employees

 Demographics and Diversity Issues
– More diversity of race, gender, age, and ethnicity in
the U.S. workforce
 Balancing Work and Family
– Dual-career couples
– Single-parent households
– Decline in the “traditional family”
– Working mothers and family/childcare
– Single employee “backlash” against family-oriented
programs.

New Moms in the Workforce
Figure 1–4
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.

 Organizational Restructuring, Mergers, and
Acquisitions
– “Right-sizing”—eliminating of layers of
management, closing facilities, merging with other
organizations, and outplacing workers
• Intended results are flatter organizations, increases in
productivity, quality, service and lower costs.
• Costs are survivor mentality, loss of employee loyalty,
and turnover of valuable employees.
– HR managers must work toward ensuring cultural
compatibility in mergers.

Different Roles for HR Management
Figure 1–5

HR Management Roles
 Administrative Role
– Clerical and administrative support operations (e.g.,
payroll and benefits work)
 Employee Advocate Role
– “Champion” for employee concerns
• Employee crisis management
• Responding to employee complaints
 Operational Role
– Identification and implementation of HR programs
and policies—EEO, hiring, training, and other
activities that support the organization.

How HR Spends Its Time
Figure 1–6
Source: Adapted from “How Much Time Should Your HR staff Spend on Recruiting?”
Human Resources Department Management Report, June 2000, p. 6.

Strategic Role for HR
 HR becomes a strategic business partner by:
– Focusing on developing HR programs that enhance
organizational performance .
– Involving HR in strategic planning at the onset.
– Participating in decision making on mergers,
acquisitions, and downsizing.
– Redesigning organizations and work processes
– Accounting and documenting the financial results of
HR activities.

Overview of HR Management Roles
Figure 1–7

Ethics and HR
 What is Ethical Behavior?
– What “ought” to be done.
– Dimensions of decisions about ethical issues in
management:
• Extended consequences
• Multiple alternatives
• Mixed outcomes
• Uncertain consequences
• Personal effects

Ethics and HR (cont’d)
 Responding to Ethical Situations
– Guided by values and personal behavior “codes”
that include:
• Does response meet all applicable laws, regulations,
and government codes?
• Does response comply with all organizational
standards of ethical behavior?
• Does response pass the test of professional standards
for ethical behavior?

Ethical Issues in Management
 Most Common Forms of Unethical Conduct
– Lying to supervisors
– Employee drug use or alcohol abuse
– Falsification of records
 International Ethical Issues
– Gift giving and bribery
– Discrimination in hiring and treatment
 Addressing Ethical Issues
– Code of ethics
– Training managers and employees

HR Management Competencies and Careers
 HR Generalist
– A person with responsibility for performing a variety
of HR activities.
 HR Specialist
– A person with in-depth knowledge and expertise in
a limited area of HR.
 Important HR Capabilities:
– Knowledge of business and organization
– Influence and change management
– Specific HR knowledge and expertise

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