Human Resource Management

Types of Development

• Varied Work Experiences: Top managers must build expertise in many areas.
• Workers identified as possible top managers given many different tasks.
• Formal Education: tuition reimbursement is common for managers taking classes for MBA or similar.
• Long-distance learning can also be used to reduce travel.

Whatever training and development efforts used, results must be transferred to the workplace.

Terms (cont)

• Right-to-work laws - can’t force membership
• Contrast Error-interviewer bases judgement of a candidate upon a comparison with preceding interviewee
• Similarity Error-bias toward a candidate that is similar to the interviewee
• Situational Interviews-give scenarios to candidates and judge their responses

Job Analysis

• Job Analysis-the act of examining positions within an organization
• Job Description-narrative explaining the scope of a position
• Job Characteristics-tasks involved in a position
• Job Requirements-personal characteristics necessary to fill a position

Performance Appraisal

• Process of evaluating employee performance
• job related strengths
• development needs
• progress toward goals
• determine ways to improve performance
• Pay an promotion decisions
• More systematic is better, for the most part

Performance Appraisal (cont)

• Self Appraisal
• Peer Appraisal
• 360 Degree appraisal
• Central Tendency Error-everyone ranked as average
• Leniency-individuals are ranked higher than they deserve

Who Appraises Performance?

Supervisors
Peers
Customers &
Clients
Subordinates
Self
Sources of
performance