Human Resources
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- Human Resources
- Human Resource Management
- Soft HRM
- Employees are Empowered
- Long Term Workforce Planning
- Democratic Leadership Style
- Human Resource Objectives
- Matching the workforce to the needs of the business
- Minimising labour costs
- Making effective use of the workforce
- Maintaining good employee/ employer relations
- Making effective use of the workforce
- Minimising labour costs
- Matching the workforce to the needs of the business
- Hard HRM
- Little Delegation
- Tall Organisation Structure
- Autocratic Leadership
- HRM is the design, implementation and maintenance of strategies to manage people for optimum business performance
- Workforce Planning
- Workforce Planning is about deciding how many and what types of workers are required
- Benefits of effective workforce planning
- Encourages managers to prepare and plan for changes rather than simply react to them
- Staff feel they are closer to the decision making process
- Businesses going through significant change are better able to handle the workforce implications
- Issues with workforce planning
- Employee Employer relations
- Training- expensive, disruptive and difficult to measure the benefits
- Cost e.g. new training, recruitment
- Soft HRM
- Organisation Culture
- Shows how people and management are organised within a business
- A Centralised structure is when a business keeps decision making at the top of the hierarchy
- Advantages of centralised structures
- Easier to implement common policies and practices
- Easier to control from the centre e.g. budgets
- Quicker decision making
- Easier to achieve economies of scale
- Easier to control from the centre e.g. budgets
- Easier to implement common policies and practices
- Disadvantages of centralised structures
- Extra layers in hierachy
- Lack of authority down the hierarchy may reduce manager motivation
- Customer service misses flexibility
- Lack of authority down the hierarchy may reduce manager motivation
- Extra layers in hierachy
- Advantages of centralised structures
- Flexible working examples: term-time working, annual hours contract, flexitime
- Benefits of flexible working
- Savings on costs e.g. overheads such as office space if employees work from home
- Results in better job satisfaction and higher staff morale
- To take advantage of technology
- Drawbacks of flexible working
- Potential loss of customers
- Potentially lower employee productivity
- Managers finding it difficult to manage or administer flexibility
- Benefits of flexible working
- Effective employer/ employee relations
- Effective communication only happens if information is sent, received and understood
- Benefits of effective communication
- Motivates employees
- Better decision making
- Better communication with customers will increase sales
- Mayo emphasised the importance of communication in meeting employees social needs
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