Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Attraction
Hiring
Retention
1. Attraction:
How we attract the individual thorough comparing the competitors.
The role of HRM is to attract the individuals. If turnover rate is
less than 4% it is attraction.
Basic elements in attracting qualified candidates
Pay
Benefits
The job
2. Hiring:
When an applicant becomes the employee of the organization it is
called hiring. After hiring it becomes the part of organization.
Human resource selection is the process of choosing qualified
individuals who are available to fill positions in an organization. It
involves choosing the best applicant to fill a position. When there
are more qualified and available job applicants than there are
positions open, the selection process starts. Basically, there are 5
elements in the selection process.
Organizational goals
Job design
Job success criterion
Job specification
Selection instruments
3. Retention:
When you bound your employee for a long period of time it is
retention. Employee retention means organizations take action to
retain good employees using strategies and approaches. These
strategies and approaches work together to compile The Retention
Plan. The following are a list of actions needed to be outlined by
managers in The Retention Plan:
Innovative compensation and benefits package
Effective rewards and recognition
Career development and opportunities
Employees needs
Flexible but strict requirements
Defined role of corporate culture
Centralized Management:
Centralization is a situation in which top management retains most of the
decision making authority.
Decentralized Management:
Transfer of decision making authority from top level of management to
lower level of management is called Decentralized management.
Workforce diversity:
The different personal management characteristics that makes the
workforce different from each other.
If diversification is high it will make challenges for organization. If
diversification is low it makes fewer challenges for organization.
Baby Boomers:
Individuals who born between 1946 to 1965 are called baby boomers.
Their grooming is planned.
Downsizing:
An activity in an organization to generate the greater efficiency by
eliminating the inefficient workers.
Rightsizing:
Linking the employee’s needs to the organizational strategies is called
rightsizing. Hiring the right person for the right job.
Contingent workforce:
It includes 3 types of employees:
Outsourcing:
Contracting with a company to handle one or more HR functions. These
are the activities that an organization performs on our behalf and we pay
for it.
Shared Services:
To share your own services. The organization in which
departments/divisions are spread. Another way to make HR functions
more cost-efficient and responsive to the organizational strategy is to
create shared services centers. The shared services centers are useful to
organizations that may have several divisions or locations that could
consolidate some HR functions such as payroll into one central location
while retaining other functions such as training in the divisional business
unit.
HR generalist:
Position responsible for all or a large number of HR functions in an
organization. A specific person which looks after all the activities related
with HR.
Benefits
Safe working environment
Transparency
Decentralization
Employee Rights:
Punctuality
Absenteeism
Loyalty
Current issue regarding the employees rights:
1. Drug testing:
The process of testing applicants/ employees to determine if they
are using illicit substances. The purpose of drug testing is to check
the effect of drug on physical and mental condition of employee.
When you provide any services you do not have right to use any
drug. By using drugs error and mistake rate exists. You are less
productive when you use drug during your job.
2. Honesty Testing:
A specialized question-and-answer test designed to assess one’s
honesty is called honesty testing.
3. Whistle Blowing:
To gain the attention. A situation in which an employee notifies
authorities of wrongdoing in an organization. Whistle-blowing
occurs when an employee reports the organization to an outside
agency for what the employee believes is an illegal or unethical
practice.
4. Employee Monitoring:
An activity whereby the company keeps informed of its
employee’s activities is called employee monitoring. The purpose
of this activity is to observe the employee. It affects the
employee’s personal privacy. But management force to implement
the certain conditions.
5. Workplace Relationship:
Workplace relationship exists when two members of the same
organization develop a relationship with mutual attraction.
Organization doesn’t want such type of relationships. They want to
build a work relationship between the employees.