Human Resource Management Final

Definitions of HRM tend to assume that:
HRM is a strategic perspective on people management
That an organisation’s sustained competitive advantage will only be secured by an investment in your people
It is essential to secure a highly skilled and committed workforce
All of the above
Ulrich & Brockbank’s (2005) HR Leader Model proposes the following roles for HRM:
Strategic Partner, Human Capital Developer, Employee Advocate and Functional Expert
Conformist Innovator, Deviant Innovator, Problem Solver and Change Agent
Regulator, Handmaiden, Advisor and Change Maker
Adapter, Consultant, Synergist and Champion
€˜Hard HRM’ refers to HR policies and practices that:
Focus on gaining the commitment and engagement of employees
Focus on setting targets and measuring employees’ performance
Are difficult for employers to initiate
Help develop a robust and tenacious workforce
Soft HRM’ refers to HR policies and practices that:
Focus on the control and coordination of employees’ work
Emphasise employees’ compliance with organisational rules and regulations
Focus on developing employees’ intrinsic motivation at work
Promote a weak and feeble workforce
Scientific Management proposes that greater workplace efficiency will be promoted by:
Mechanising the workplace, simplifying and routinising work and closely aligning pay with individual productivity outputs
Mechanising the workplace, simplifying and routinising work and closely aligning pay with team-based productivity outputs
Developing cross-functional teams and providing employees with greater decision-making responsibility and ownership
Providing a greater role for Research and Development in organisations.
Critical perspectives on HRM suggest that:
HRM is just a new name for traditional management practices
HRM is principally about gaining the control and compliance of employees against the strategic goals of the organisation
Empirical evidence for the positive outcomes of HRM is limited and thus the ‘reality’ of HRM in practice is limited.
All of the above
HR outsourcing:
Is about setting up your HR function in a foreign country
Is about reducing the costs of the HR function
Is an HR organising model that seeks to support both the strategic and operational roles of HRM
All of the above
PESTEL refers to the:
Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Educational and Legal environment factors that affect a business and its HR policies and practices
Political, External, Social, Technological, Educational and Legal environmental factors that affect a business and its HR policies and practices
Political, Economic, Scientific, Technological, Educational and Legal environmental factors that affect a business and its HR policies and practices
Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal factors that affect a business and its HR policies and practices
The ‘triple bottom line’ refers to an organisation’s:
Economic, HR and CSR performance
Economic, Social and Environmental performance
Business, HR and Environmental performance
Social, Environmental and Sustainability performance
The CIPD suggest that HR professionals require the following skills/traits to be a successful HR practitioner:
Curious, decisive, collaborative, credible
Autocratic, egoistic, autonomous, risk taking
Affable, generous, easy going, caring
Risk averse, introverted, conforming, agreeable
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