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What are the origins of human resources? How has HR evolved over the last century?
How has the workplace changed and the perception of worker value? -
ANSWERSEmployee Screening in China, Industrial Revolution, Triangle factory fire
Early HR was seen as a place to handle worker/mgmt issues, and helped companies
avoid unionization, and helped labor laws. Now: policies, practices, and systems that
influence employee behavior, attitudes and performance.
What are the functions of human resource departments? - ANSWERSAdmin services
and transactions: handling administrative tasks
Business partner services: Developing HR systems to keeping, developing, and
attracting people
Strategic Partner: competitive advantage
Explain the human resource responsibilities of supervisors. - ANSWERSDefine jobs,
forecast HR needs, provide training, interview and select candidates, appraisal of
performance, pay, communicate policies, motivate
What are ethical issues in human resource management? What were the basics human
rights identified by Immanuel Kant? We discuss(ed) this in week three. -
ANSWERSPolicies and codes, training employees and supervisors, watching for
unethical behavior
Right to free consent, privacy, freedom to conscience, speech, and due rights
What are major changes occurring within organizations and the external environment
and identify the challenges they pose for human capital management? -
ANSWERSDemographic Shift-Aging workforce, diversity, immigrationEmployment
Relationship-Outsourcing, automation, on demand workers-Jobs not critical are sent to
third party vendors (via reengineering)-100,00 + workers now are independent
contractors-Most of the top 10 growth jobs can be done by robotsGlobalization-Cost
control, cultural issues, competencies, offshoringTechnology-Flexibility, social media,
obsolete jobs, data analytics and security
Be sure to watch the videos (non-Connect videos) that were assigned for these weeks
as there will be questions on the exams related to their content. - ANSWERSGoogle
and tech, Alphabot What happened with the Triangle factory fire, and how has that
affected the workplace? - ANSWERSTriangle employees trapped in factories, very
public display that reforms were needed. First HR departments came as a result.