Human Resource Management Session 2 JOB ANALYSIS, STRATEGIC PLANNING, AND HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING... Conducting Job Analysis• People who participate in job analysis should include, at
Trang 1Human Resource Management
Session 2 JOB ANALYSIS, STRATEGIC
PLANNING, AND HUMAN
RESOURCE PLANNING
Trang 2Questions Job Analysis Should Answer
• What physical and mental tasks does the
worker accomplish?
• When is the job to be completed?
• Where is the job to be accomplished?
• How does the worker do the job?
• Why is the job done?
Trang 3Job Analysis: A Basic Human Resource Management Tool
Tasks Responsibilities Duties
Job
Analysis
Job Descriptions
Job Specifications
Human Resource Planning
Recruitment
Selection
Training and Development
Performance Appraisal
Compensation and Benefits
Safety and Health
Employee and Labour Relations
Legal Considerations
Trang 4Job Analysis Methods
Trang 5• Typically quick and economical to use
• Structured questionnaire to employees
• Problem: Employees may lack verbal skills
• Some employees tend to exaggerate significance of their tasks
Trang 6• Job analyst watches worker perform job tasks and
records observations
• Used primarily to gather information on jobs
emphasizing manual skills
• Used alone is often insufficient
Trang 8Employee Recording
• Describe daily work activities
in diary or log
• Problem: Employees exaggerating job importance
• Valuable in understanding highly specialized jobs
Trang 9Conducting Job Analysis
• People who participate in job analysis should include,
at a minimum:
– Employee – Employee’s immediate supervisor
Trang 10Job Description
• Document that states tasks,
duties, and responsibilities of job
• Vitally important that job
descriptions are both relevant and accurate
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• Job Identification – Job title, department,
reporting relationship, and job number or code
• Job Analysis Date – Aids in identifying job
changes that would make description obsolete
• Job Summary – Concise overview of job
• Duties Performed – Major duties
Trang 12Problems If Job Specifications
Are Inflated
• May systematically eliminate minorities or women from
considerations
• Compensation costs will increase
• Job vacancies will be harder to fill
Trang 13Timeliness of Job Analysis
Rapid pace of technological change makes need for
accurate job analysis even more important now and in the
future
Trang 14Strategic Planning
• Strategic planning - Process by which top management
determines overall
organizational purposes and
objectives and how they are to
be achieved
Trang 16Human Resource Planning
Systematic process of matching internal and external supply of people with job
openings anticipated in the organization over a specified period of time
Trang 17Human Resource Planning Process
External Environment Internal Environment
Forecasting Human
Resource Availability
Restricted Hiring, Reduced Hours, Early Retirement, Layoffs, Downsizing
Trang 18Forecasting Human Resource
Requirements
• Zero-based forecasting - Uses current level as starting point for determining future staffing needs
• Bottom-up approach - Each level
of organization, starting with lowest, forecasts its
requirements to provide aggregate of employment needs.
Trang 19Forecasting Human Resource
Requirements (Cont.)
• Relationship between Volume of Sales and
Number of Workers Required
• Simulation Models - Simulation is a
forecasting technique for experimenting with real-world situation through mathematical
model representing that situation A model is
an abstraction of the real world
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Trang 21Shortage of Workers Forecasted
• Creative recruiting
• Compensation incentives – Premium pay is one method
• Training programs – Prepare previously unemployable people for positions
• Different selection standards
Trang 22Surplus of Employees
• Restricted hiring – employees who leave are not replaced
• Reduced hours
• Early retirement
Trang 23Downsizing
• Also known as restructuring and rightsizing, is reverse of company growing and suggests one-time change in organization and number of
people employed
• Retention bonuses are used to entice
terminated employees to remain for short
periods of time to ensure continued services
Trang 24Negative Aspects of Downsizing (Cont.)
• Institutional memory lost
• Remaining workers required to do more
• When demand for products/services returns, firm may realize it has cut
Trang 25• Laid-off employees given
assistance in finding employment elsewhere
• Companies use outplacement to take care of employees by
moving them successfully out of company rather than having to do
it on their own
Trang 26Succession Planning
• Process of ensuring that qualified
persons are available to assume
key managerial positions once the
positions are vacant
• Goal is to help ensure a smooth
transition and operational
Trang 27Human Resource Information
Systems (HRIS)
for obtaining relevant and timely information on
which to base HR decisions
Trang 28HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM
Goal: Integrate Core Processes into Seamless System
Input Data Types
Compensation Programs Benefit Programs (e.g., prescription drug programs)
Health Programs (e.g., Employee Assistance Programs) Bargaining Strategies
Organizational Strategic Plans
Human Resource Management Plans
Contribute Toward Achievement of:
Human Resource Information System
Trang 29Job Design (Cont.)
• Job enlargement - Changes in scope of job to provide greater variety to worker
• Reengineering - Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to
achieve dramatic improvements in critical
measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service and speed