Activities Activity Write synonyms for the words a-i

Activity 2.

Number the following units 1-15 considering the important steps in effective staff management. Hiring , selection , providing direction _ , training , retirement , recruitment

, insurance survey , retraining_ team building , remuneration , creating working conditions orientation placement recognition .
Answer:

Selection 1, recruitment 2, hiring 3, orientation 4, placement 5, providing direction 6, creating working conditions 7, insurance 8, team building 9, survey 10, recognition 11, training 12, retraining 13, remuneration 14, retirement 15.

Activity 3.

Read the text and find out the terms concerning the types of management. WHAT IS HRM?

Have you ever heard of the abbreviation HRM? It is deciphered as human resources management. Human Resources Management includes conducting job analyses, planning personnel needs, recruiting the right people for the job, orienting and training, managing wages and salaries, providing (a)beneftts and incentives, evaluating performance, resolving disputes, and communicating with all employees at all levels. Human resource is a notion how the individuals realize their abilities and skills and contribute to their organization. HR emerged in the early 20th

century, due to movement of human relations, as the strategic approach for creating (b)successful business. At first it dealt with transactional activity as benefits administration. Nowadays due to technology, communication and transportation (c)progress and wide research the essence of HRM raised to other higher levels.

Frederick Taylor termed the movement as “scientific movement” (later it was named as “Taylorism”) trying to increase economic productivity in manufacture. One of the oldest professional HR associations was the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development which was established in England in 1913.

As the union HRM departments conduct issues pertaining to people such as motivation, discipline, employee data, recruitment, personnel administration (promotion in work places), job transfer, probation periods, work schedules, salary and satisfaction surveys, HRM design, human capital management (performance management, succession planning, training, induction), analysis and reports, budgets, admission system, quota-based work, incentives and commissions, compensation and payroll (worked hours, overtime, bonuses and omissions, endowment, deductions, taxes, leaves, family care leaves, absence and business trips), exams and tests on qualifications, safety, wellness, benefits (insurance, healthcare, pension, company transportation, housing), communication,

change management (finding the new (d)eligible ways and methods for conducting the process and helping people to cope with permanent changes), employee engagement (listening to grievances, organizing parties, picnics), labor relations (service conditions, negotiations on wages, settling strives), satisfaction surveys (observing emotional state of the organization, motivate all employees and make appropriate changes to HR policies), record keeping (recording and keeping the employment history, health, absence, earnings records).

A good HRM staff is the heart of a company. Nowadays HR manager is associated as “business partner”. Modern real HR manager is responsible for culture and values of any organization. In order the employees acted as one friendly family and accomplished an organization’s targets and o b jectiv es H R m an ag ers sh o u ld fu n c tio n (e)effectively and productively.

Update HR manager must avoid just hiring or firing any employee, but he/she is to headhunt, search executive, select highly (f)qualified personnel, have profound knowledge of industry, have leading ability and negotiation skills, create the whole employee programs that impact the business non-stop prosperity. HR manager should be the (g)reliable guide of employees and show them conductive ways in obtaining the objectives and skills required to achieve these goals. All activities of members of HR staff should be outcome-directed.

They should realize this by giving (Irrelevant information and options, promoting effective structures for link between employees and directorate, motivating and enriching staff capabilities, working out methods for team work.

Today the Society for Human Resource Management in the USA has more than 250000 members in 140 states throughout the world and is the largest association which offers training and certification of HR managers.