Intro to HRM
The role of letting go of workers, usually due to underperformance or misconduct in the workplace.
What is dismissal?
The labour markets in which people are on short-term, impromptu, temporary contracts. This includes freelance worker and independent contractors.
What is gig economy?
The administrative systems within an organization. This includes the formal policies and procedures of the business.
What is a bureaucracy?
The person directly above an employee in the organizational structure of a business.
Refers to the way in which managers and leaders provide direction for others.
What is leadership style?
The practice of hiring appropriately qualified and suitable workers at the right times to fill job vacancies.
What is recruitment?
The people who move to other countries in search of job opportunities.
What are migrant workers?
This measures the difference between the number of people from abroad who enter a country (immigration) and the number of people who leave (emigration), usually for employment purposes.
What is net migration?
This only has a few layers of management in its organizational structure.
What is a tall organization?
Management style that actively involves the participation of employees in the decision-making process.
What is democratic management/leadership?
The role of letting go of workers if/when their jobs are no longer needed.
What is a redundancy? What is a lay-off?
The form of flexible working practice that enables employees to work a set number of core hours per week, often at the office during peak periods of the day and/or week.
What is flexi-time?
The ability and willingness of employees to relocate to another location or country for work reasons.
What is geographical mobility?
This only has a few layers of management in its organizational structure.
What is a flat organization?
Management style that involves centralised and autonomous decision-making, without input from others in the organization.
What is autocratic management/leadership?
A type of training for new employees to get them acclimatized with the norms and operations of the business.
What is induction training?
The extent to which workers have the ability and willingness to move between geographical locations and/or occupations for their employment.
What is labour mobility?
The formal lines of authority in an organization.
What is chain of command?
The contractual fringe, these are the individuals or other organizations hired on a contract basis to carry out a specific but non-core role in Charles Handy’s Shamrock organization.
What are outsourced workers or outsourced vendors?
A quick approach to management based on the manager’s own values, views, and/or gut feelings that are not always quantifiable.
What is intuitive thinking management?
The formal procedure of assessing the performance and effectiveness of employees in relation to their job description.
What is an appraisal?
The systematic process of managing the current and future needs of an organization’s workforce.
What is HR planning or workforce planning?
The diagrammatic representation of an organization’s formal organizational structure.
What is an organizational chart?
According to Charles Handy, these are the contingent workers, consisting of part-time and temporary staff hired by the organization.
What are peripheral workers?
Peter Drucker’s framework for setting organizational objectives, which must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.
What are SMART objectives?