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Human Resources

Management

Introduction Learning Objectives
What Do Human Resources Managers Do?
Technology and Human Resources After studying this chapter, you should be able to
Management
1 Describe how advances in technology and
Human Resources Planning other factors have led to an increasingly
Job Analysis strategic role in organizations for human
Forecasting Human Resources Demand
Forecasting Human Resources Supply resources management.
Matching Supply with Demand 2 Explain how human resources managers
Organizational Staffing engage in planning and forecasting.
Recruiting 3 Discuss the process of recruiting and
Selection selecting employees for an organization.
Orientation
Compensation and Benefits 4 Evaluate the types, value, and effectiveness
Wages and Salaries of the compensation and benefit plans
Benefits that organizations offer employees.
Developing an Effective Workforce 5 Analyze different methods for developing
Needs Analyses an effective workforce and providing
Methods for Developing an Effective workforce members with proper feedback.
Workforce
Feedback and Performance Appraisal and 6 Describe the role of the National Labor
Evaluation Relations Act in abolishing company
Labor–Management Relations unions, and the process by which “real”
Historical Overview unions come into power and engage in
Collective Bargaining collective bargaining.
The Decline of Unions
International Labor Relations 7 Discuss how and why the field of human
resources management has become so
Legal Environment of Human Resources
Management highly legally regulated, especially by the
Employment-at-Will Revisited federal government, in recent decades.
Federal Legislation After 1960 8 Analyze the difference between equal
State Regulation employment opportunity and affirmative
Workplace Diversity action, the impact of this difference on
Advantages and Challenges of a Diverse workplace diversity, and recent
Workforce developments in affirmative action and
Equal Employment Opportunity Versus workplace diversity.
Affirmative Action
University of Michigan Affirmative Action Case
Workforce Diversity After 9/11

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