Human Resources is concerned with - correct answer ✔✔the modern day management of people
(compensation, training, recruitment, section, teamwork and safety)
Recruitment - correct answer ✔✔is getting people in the door
Selection - correct answer ✔✔is the selection of people once recruited
Employee screening - correct answer ✔✔1500-2000 BC China
The modern concern with managing workers comes from the industrial revolution - correct answer
✔✔1800-1910
During the industrial revolution - correct answer ✔✔Managers believed that workers were replaceable,
wanted to avoid work, would take advantage, and needed to be controlled
First HR departments in the US - correct answer ✔✔1900 BF Goodrich and in 1902 National Cash
Register Company
National Cash Register company - correct answer ✔✔Defeated union, handled grievances, safety and
other employee issues
Industrial Welfare - correct answer ✔✔In the late 1890s to early 1900s some forward thinking
companies provided workplace and family amenities for their employees (lunch rooms, medical care,
recreational programs, libraries)
Great Depression - correct answer ✔✔HR departments started to decline again
, World War Two - correct answer ✔✔labor was short in supply, people took jobs they were used to. they
needed HR for recruiting, testing, motivating, and mediating
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - correct answer ✔✔Discrimination, Racism, gender and religion
Navigate new legislation and court cases
Human Resource Management - correct answer ✔✔Policies, practices and systems that influence
employees behavior, attitudes and performance
Human Capital - correct answer ✔✔Value of employees' training, experience, judgement, intelligence,
insight, networks
HRM Role - correct answer ✔✔How do we hire, promote, develop, and compensate people to achieve
these goals
HRs central responsibility - correct answer ✔✔to deliver workforce behaviors need to achieve goals
HRM - correct answer ✔✔consists of an organizations policies and systems that influence employees
behavior, attitudes and performance
HR department responsibilities - correct answer ✔✔-Analyze and design jobs
-recruit and select employees
-equip employees by training and developing them
-through performance management ensures that employees activities and outputs match the
organization goals
-plan and administer pay and employee benefits
-engage in employee relations
-Establish and administer personnel policies and keep records
-help ensure compliance with labor laws
-support the development and execution of corporate strategy
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