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| Planning, recruitment, development, compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, safety and health |
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1. Culture of the organization
2. How organization Responds to change |
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| Who performs HR functions |
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1. Operating Manager
2. HR Generalists
3. HR Specialists |
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| What does the Human Resource Department Do? |
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1. Provides support
2. Specific Services
3. Advice
4. Coordination |
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| Challenges in HR Management |
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1. Diversity: gender, age, religion and language
2. Regulatory Changes: Laws, gay marriage, healthcare
3. Structural Changes: Downsizing employees, laid off
4. Technological and Managerial changes within an organization |
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1. Learn to speak to your audience
2. Back words up with action
3. Diversity: beware of stereotypes and pitfalls |
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| refers the right of ppl to work, get jobs, raises, promoted hired and the basis of Merit, Potential, and ability |
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deals with discrimination based on gender, men and women working in the same job area, prohibits paying ppl differently because of gender.
(Cannot discriminate based on gender) |
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| Title VII Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| Outlaws discrimination against race, color, religion, sex, and National origin |
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| treating ppl differently on purpose |
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your not doing it on purpose, but somehow a group has been treated differently.
DIDNT realize it was going on |
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| Age Discrimination in Employment Act |
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| Over 40 and under 70 years of age |
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prohibits discrimination against handicapped, or disability.
(Cant ask about disability but you can ask if there is anything that keeps the person from performing the job at hand) |
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| Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1978 |
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| Treat it like any other medical condition, still get benefits |
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| Immigration Reform and Control Act |
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| makes it illegal to hire or recruit any illegal aliens, puts burden on employer to verify that worker is allowed to be here |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| makes it illegal to discriminate against ppl qualified for a job in hiring or firing. Requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for ppl who have disabilities |
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| the right to have Jury Trial, more power and potential health benefits for women, ppl with disabilities and religious minorities |
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a. Griggs v. Duke Power Company- AA employees told they could get a better job if they past a test (Wonder lick, smartness test), AA won the case, however many AA didn’t do well on the test, the company was trying to do the right thing but had a desperate impact.
b. Albermale Paper v. Moody- court found that the burden of proof is on the employer. Failed to validate their employment test.
c. University of California v. Bakke- white guy wanted to go to law school at Davis. Bakke two years in a row didn’t get in, looked at others scores said my scores are better. Reverse discrimination against the whites. Always higher people based on merit, potential and ability
d. United Steel Workers v. Weber- a case also on reversed discrimination. Union and company in agreement to give special treatment to minorities. Suite was filed and it did not pass because management and union agreed to it. It was only temporary. |
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Systemic discrimination involves a pattern or practice, policy, or class case where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area.
(I didnt mean to do it on purpose it just looks that way) |
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1. all organizations with 20 employees or over must keeep records
2. Compliance Process: any individual can file with the EEOC if they feel they have been discriminated in hiring, promotion, or retention practices |
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| The makeup of the org is overall in sync |
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Geographic Area in which you recruit employees.
CAn recruit in a certain mile radius, nationwide or international for different positions |
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| can have 40% women in organization, but you only have 22% so your underutilized |
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| over represented by women or minorities |
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| a written document that the top official of the org committee puts someone in charge of. They publicize it, study their employees to determine areas of concentration and underutilization |
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| Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications |
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| ALLOWS employees to discriminate if you can establish BFOQ where you only hire on certain sex |
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| Comparable Worth and Equal pay issues |
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| theory that every job by very nature has an inherent value and we should pay by that |
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| Other types of employment discrimination |
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religion
HIV positive
sexual orientation
Native Americans |
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| gives nature and requirements of specific jobs |
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touch something
grab something, gripping the handle bars, feet on the peddles |
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| Jumping from point to point |
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| gathering and reporting specific information about a specific job |
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| background requirements that you may need (Masters, 5 year degree) |
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Observation
interviews
questionaires
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| Job analysis Potential Issues |
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1. Top management support is missing
2. Single Data source utilized
3. Supervisor and job holder dont participate
4. Lack of training or motivation for employees
5. Not enough time
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| Horizontal, number of different things that your job entails |
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| Vertical, freedom of how to get job done |
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| panel of experts, someone facilitates it to reach consensus |
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| Skills Inventory ( asked when being hired) |
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| positions held, certain implementations of jobs youve held, plant youve started or shut down, personal data, foreign language, |
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succession Planning: planning for who will take your job if someone dies/leaves ect...
Ration analysis |
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| organizational objectives |
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| statement of expected results that are designed to give the organization and its members direction and purpose |
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| weighted application forms |
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| assigns different weights or values to different questions |
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| completed voluntarily by a job applicant and used by employer. Questionnaire |
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| strength, dexterity, and coordination |
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| When the selection rate of minorities & women is LESS than 80% of the RLM and majority group in hiring, promotions, transfers, demotions, or selection decisions |
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| a limit used to determine whether or not there are serious discrepancies in hiring decisions & other employment practices affecting women or minorities |
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