chpt 4

• Human Resource Management


  The study of how organizations manage the people who work for them
• Growth


  • Necessitates changes in the way you do things
  • The way managers relate to staff
  • The competencies of staff
  • The staff numbers
  • The structures/departmentalisation
• Internal Perspective


  • Job design
  • Staffing
  • Learning and development
  • Rewards
  • Strategic HRM – formulation and implementation
  • HR strategy
• HR Planning


  • Analyse the external environment
  • Analyse HR competency and capabilities within the organisation (internal environ)
  • Determine current gaps and future requirement
  • Formulate and implement strategies to address gaps
• Steps in HR Planning


  • Specialisation
  • Standardisation
  • Coordination
  • Authority (line/staff)
  • Departmentalisation
  • Job design
• Job Analysis


  • Job description
  • Job specification
  • Job profiling