Human Resources (HR) Basics
This business department hires workers, trains them, handles payroll and benefits, and addresses employee issues.
What is Human Resources (HR)?
In this leadership style, the leader makes almost all the decisions and expects everyone to follow directions without much input.
What is authoritarian leadership?
This document explains what a job is, what tasks the worker will do, and what skills or experience are needed.
What is a job description?
This form shows when an employee is available or not available to work during the week.
What is an availability form?
This is the online place where students present their business idea, profile, start-up needs, and future plans.
What is a business website?
These are rules that protect workers and employers, covering things like pay, hours, and safety.
What are labor laws?
This “hands-off” leadership style gives very little direction and lets workers make most decisions on their own.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
In a job description, this section explains the main purpose of the job and who the employee reports to.
What is the overview (or position summary)?
HR or managers use this to plan who works which days and times so the business has enough coverage.
What is a work schedule?
This event at the end of the course allows students to present their business plans and speeches to an audience.
What is the symposium?
This is the process of finding, attracting, and choosing new people to work for a company.
What is recruitment?
This leadership style focuses on rules, procedures, and policies and does not like to bend the rules, even if it is slow or not flexible.
What is bureaucratic leadership?
These bullet-point items in a job description list what the worker actually does each day on the job.
What are the duties or responsibilities?
When making a schedule, this goal means workers get about the same number of hours and no one is clearly favored or left out.
What is making the schedule fair or balanced?
This part of the website shows who the entrepreneur is, including strengths, skills, passions, and experiences.
What is the entrepreneurial profile (or About Me section)?
This type of organization is made up of workers who join together to protect their rights and improve pay and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
This type of leader motivates and inspires people to grow and change, often by sharing a powerful vision for the future.
What is transformational leadership?
In planning the symposium, students might create this list of roles (like chairperson, note-taker, and timekeeper) to make sure all tasks are covered.
What is a list of positions and functions for the event (or event roles)?
This HR task happens when an employee breaks the rules many times and HR or the manager must give a written warning or possibly remove the worker.
What is disciplining an employee (or progressive discipline)?
When students plan where their business will be in 6–12 months, 3–5 years, 10–15 years, and 20–30 years, they are creating this type of plan.
What is a business expansion plan (or growth timeline)?
This term describes when a group of workers, usually through their union, negotiates with employers about pay, hours, and working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
In this leadership style, workers are given rewards for doing their jobs correctly and face consequences when they do not meet expectations.
What is transactional leadership?
This type of writing records who attended a meeting, what was discussed, and what decisions and action items were made.
What are meeting minutes?
In the Schedule Puzzle Challenge, students must follow worker availability, cover all open hours, and give each worker at least one shift. This kind of thinking—balancing rules, needs, and fairness—is a key part of this HR planning process.
What is staffing and scheduling?
In the symposium speech, students must explain their company concept, organization, and expansion plans. This overall written and spoken plan for a new business is often called this.
What is a business plan?