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Buss3 A2 Key Terms
Human Resource
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Making the best use of all employees to achieve corporate goals. | Human resource management (HRM) |
| Targets the HR management hopes to achieve by implementing HR strategies, so that the business can achieve its corporate objectives. | HR objectives |
| Concerned with communication and motivation. People are led rather than managed. They are involved in determining and realising strategic objectives. | ‘Soft’ HR management |
| Emphasises costs and places control firmly in the hands of management. Their role is to manage numbers effectively, keeping the workforce closely matched with requirements in terms of both bodies and behaviour. | ‘Hard’ HR management |
| Getting ‘the right number of people with the right skills, experiences, and competencies in the right jobs at the right time’. A comprehensive process that provides managers with a framework for making staffing decisions based on an organisation’s corpora | Workforce planning |
| Details of how the business will implement its HR management policies. | Workforce plans |
| Where the decision-making authority is concentrated amongst a small number of senior managers at the top/centre of the organisational structure. | Centralisation |
| Where the authority for decision-making is delegated to subordinates in the organisational structure. | Decentralisation |
| Removing levels in the organisational structure. | Delayering |
| Part-time, temporary and self-employed workers brought into the businesses as and when needed. | Peripheral workers |
| Where a significant percentage of employees are on part-time and temporary contracts rather than the vast majority being on permanent, full-time contracts, and/or where employees are multi-skilled and work wherever needed in the organisation. | Flexible workforce |
| Full-time, permanent employees, with business-specific skills and knowledge, performing tasks key to the success of the business, often rewarded with high salaries and excellent working conditions. | Core workers |
| Where business functions are provided by external specialist organisations rather than provided in house. | Outsourcing |
| Where business functions are provided by external specialist organisations rather than provided in house. | Homeworking |
| Forums made up of employee representatives from selected areas of the business and representatives of the employers. | Employee groups |
| An organisation of employees, which acts collectively in dealings with management for mutual protection and assistance and is often concerned with wages and conditions of employment. | Trade union |
| A committee representing the employer and elected employee representatives of a plant or business meeting to discuss working conditions, grievances and pay. | Works council |
| A disagreement between employers and employees and employees/employee representatives over an employee-related issue. | Industrial dispute |
| An independent and impartial organisation established to avoid and resolve industrial disputes and build harmonious relationships at work. | Acas |
| Sanctions imposed by workers to put pressure on a business during an industrial dispute, including overtime ban, work to rule, go slow and ultimately strike action. | Industrial action |
| An independent third party encourages continued discussion between those in disagreement to reach a compromise and resolve their dispute. | Conciliation |
| Where no agreement can be found between parties in dispute, they agree to accept the judgement of an independent third party. | Arbitration |
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carole appleton
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