1. Chapter 15
Human Resources
Management pp

2. Learning Objectives Why It’s Important
Describe how a company attracts and rewards good employees.
Explain what a human resources manager should consider about a job applicant.
Define human resources management.
Why It’s Important
To get the most out of its workforce, a business has to find the right employees, properly train them, and evaluate their performances.

3. HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT
Human resources management - the process of finding, selecting, training, and evaluating employees
A business’s human resource is the people who work for it
Employees provide the skills, knowledge, labor, and experience to make business productive

4. Job Description
detailed outline of the duties, qualifications, and conditions required to do a specific job
Compensation is how much the job pays and the benefits offered

5. What qualifications must a person have for this position?
This job description lists the duties and responsibilities of a records assistant.
What qualifications must a person have for this position?

6. 3 main types of retirement plans are:
Employee Benefits
Pay attention to the health care, retirement benefits, and specific needs of your family
3 main types of retirement plans are:
Pension: employer funds part of retirement
Profit-sharing: employer contributes to your plan
401k: part of your check set aside for retirement
employers often MATCH % of your plan

7. Job Recruitment
Recruitment - actively looking for qualified people to fill a job
Place ads in newspapers, magazines,
at schools, or on the Internet
Employment agencies, employees’ recommendations, or conventions are also ways to find qualified people

9. (Job application, Interview, Testing, References)
The Selection Process
4 four steps to selecting the right candidate
(Job application, Interview, Testing, References)
- Your task to convince an employer that you can do everything in the job description well
- Human resources managers want employees who can communicate well both in writing and verbally

10. The Selection Process
Most companies will give little tests throughout their interview with applicants
- A company will run a background check to verify certain information about you
- A reference is someone who comments on a job applicant’s character and qualification for a job

11. The Selection Process
- Employees must know how to do business in other countries
- You may find knowledge you have about other countries to be a selling point for you someday (2nd language, experiences)

12. HOMEWORK
Rd. Pgs
Questions 1-3 on Pg. 265

13. Learning Objectives Why It’s Important
Name ways employees are oriented, trained, and evaluated.
List the ways an employee’s status might be changed.
Why It’s Important
To get the most out of its workforce, a business has to find the right employees, properly train them, and evaluate their performances.

14. Graphic Organizer The Staffing Process Job Analysis Forecasting
Mr.Manning's Ch15 Notes
Graphic Organizer
The Staffing Process
Job Analysis
Forecasting
Recruitment
Screening
Selection
Orientation

15. Orientation - process of helping new employees adjust to a company
HUMAN RESOURCES MGMT
To develop employees:
need to be oriented, trained, and evaluated
Orientation - process of helping new employees adjust to a company
Includes:
Meeting other employees, Group orientation session, Receiving employee manual, Reading company’s code of ethics

16. Training and Evaluating
On-the-job (OTB) training - learning a new job by actually doing it; under guidance of supervisor
Group training - learning a new task/skill with group of other employees
Performance appraisal - evaluation of
how well an employee is performing
- used to determine if an employee should get a raise, promotion, or new training

17. Promotion
move to a higher-level job with more authority, responsibility, and pay
important to consider how employee will adapt to a new job
The Peter Principle - it’s possible
for employees to be promoted
until they reach a level at which
they can no longer perform

18. Transfer
A transfer is a move to another job within a company at the same level and pay
usually transferred because the company moves or opens a new office

19. Separation leaving a company for any reason
Voluntary separation - when employee resigns
Involuntary separations – layoff & terminations
A company that is losing $$ may need to downsize reduce the number of employees
Layoffs are often temporary and an employee may be brought back if conditions improve

20. Separation
If a layoff is permanent, a company might help employees find new jobs
An employee can be fired,
or terminated, for:
- being late all the time,
- doing a poor job, or
- breaking company rules
When training, counseling, and disciplinary action fail, termination is necessary
Termination wastes company resources & the time invested in hiring and training an individual

21. HOMEWORK
Pg. 266
Questions 2-6

22. Making an Ethical Decision
Would you try to hire a woman because women were discriminated against until fairly recently?
A: It is ILLEGAL to discriminate or make a hiring decision on the basis of many factors including gender, race, sexual orientation (gay or straight) and age

23. Making an Ethical Decision
2. Would you try to hire a man at a law firm because today fewer men are being trained as lawyers?
A: (same as #1)
It is ILLEGAL to discriminate or make a hiring decision on the basis of many factors including gender, race, sexual orientation (gay or straight) and age

24. Making an Ethical Decision
3. Would you ignore gender as an issue in hiring?
A: To uphold the law, hire the person BEST QUALIFIED for the position.

25. Chapter 15
Human Resources Management