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Human resource Management Chapter
1-4
Human resources (HR)

are the people an organisation employs to carry out various jobs, tasks, and functions in
exchange for wages, salaries, and other rewards


Human resource management (HRM)

is the comprehensive set of managerial activities and tasks concerned with developing and
maintaining a qualified workforce human resources in whats that contribute to organizational
effectiveness


Outsourcing

is the process of hiring outside firms to handle basic HRM functions presumably more
efficiently than the organization could


Scientific management

one of the earliest approaches to management, was concerned with structuring individual
jobs to maximize efficiency and productivity


Hierarchy of human needs

Abraham Maslow's developed this during the human relations era


Human relations era

supplanted scientific management as the dominant approach to management during the
1930s


Hawthorne studies

what the human relations era was instigated by; suggested The individual attitudes may have
been related to performance and another suggested that a workgroup may have established
norms to restrict the output of individual group members.

, Theory X and Theory Y

Douglas McGregor's framework grew from the human relations movement; if managers
made their employees more satisfied and happier then they would work harder and be more
productive.


Personnel departments

- Specialized organizational units for hiring and administering human resources become
popular during the 1930s and 1940s


Personal management

a new type of management function grew from the recognition that human resources needed
to be managed


Personnel manager

the manager who ran the personnel Department


knowledge workers
They are employees whose jobs are primarily concerned with the acquisition an application
of knowledge. they contribute to an organization through what they know and how they can
apply what they know. (Human resource college students)


Social responsibility

o balancing profit making activities with activities that balance society Ex: Civic duty


conscious capitalism

refers to treating social outcomes and financial outcomes as complementary rather than
competing


triple bottom line

where a firm tries to maximize the bottom line the way people are treated and the level of
environmental responsibility

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