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Unit 2.10. Human resource management
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- 1human resource managementthe strategic approach to the effective management of an organization's workers so that they help the business gain a competitive advantage
- 2workforce planninganalyzing and forecasting the numbers of workers and the skills of those workers that will be required by the organisation to achieve its objectives
- 3workforce audita check on the skills and qualifications of all existing workers/managers
- 4recruitmentthe process of identifying the need for a new employee, defining job to be filled and the type of person needed to fill it, attracting suitable candidates for the job and selecting the best one
- 5job descriptiona detailed list of the key points about the job to be filled-stating all its key tasks and responsibilities
- 6person specificationa detailed list of the qualities, skills and qualifications that a succesful applicant will need to have
- 7trainingwork-related education to increase workforce skills and efficiency
- 8on-the-job traininginstruction at the place of work on how a job should be carried out
- 9off-the-job trainingall training undertaken away from the business, e.g.work related college courses
- 10induction trainingintroductory training programme to familiarise new recruits with the systems used in the business and the layout of the business site
- 11staff appraisalthe process of assessing the effectiveness of an employee judged against pre-set objectives
- 12employment contracta legal document that sets out the terms and conditions governing a worker's job
- 13dismissalbeing dismissed or sacked from a job due to incompetence or breach of discipline
- 14unfair dismissalending a worker's employment contract for a reason that the law regards as being unfair
- 15redundancywhen a job is no longer required, so the employee doing this job becomes redundant through no
- 16temporary employment contractemployment contract that lasts for a fixed time period e.g.six months
- 17part-time employment contractemployment contract that is for less than the normal full working week of,say, 40 hours, e.g.eight hours per week
- 18flexi-time contractemployment contract that allows staff to be called in at times most convenient to employers and employees, e.g.at busy times of day
- 19outsourcingnot employing staff directly, but using an outside agency or organisation to carry out some business functions
- 20teleworkingstaff working from home but keeping contact with the office by means of modern IT communications
- 21hard HRMan approach to managing staff that focuses on cutting costs, e.g. temporary and part-time employment contracts, offering maximum flexibility but with minimum training costs
- 22soft HRMan approach to managing staff that focuses on developing staff that they reach self-fulfilment and are motivated to work hard and stay with the business
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- AS - Level Business FlashCards sobre Unit 2.10. Human resource management, criado por Ninjin Batmunkh em 28-04-2016.
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- Ninjin Batmunkh · abr 2016
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