Human Resources
Management in Canada
Midterm 2025 – Complete
Study Guide & Review
Human Resources Management (HRM) - ANSWER ✔---The management of people in organizations
to drive successful organizational performance and achievement of the organization's strategic goals
Human Capital - ANSWER ✔---The knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of an
organization's workforce
Scientific Management - ANSWER ✔---The process of "scientifically" analyzing manufacturing
processes, reducing production costs, and compensating employees based on their performance levels
Human Resources Movement - ANSWER ✔---A management philosophy focusing inn concern for
people and productivity
,Outsourcing - ANSWER ✔---The practice of contracting with outside vendors to handle specified
business functions on a permanent basis
Employee Engagement - ANSWER ✔---The emotional and intellectual involvement of employees in
their work, such as intensity, focus, and involvement in his or her job and organization
Strategy - ANSWER ✔---The company's plan for how it will balance its internal strengths and
weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain a competitive advantage
Change Agents - ANSWER ✔---Specialists who lead the organization and its employees through
organizational change
Environmental Scanning - ANSWER ✔---Identifying and analyzing external opportunities and threats
that may be crucial to the organization's success
Metrics - ANSWER ✔---Statistics used to measure activities and results
Balanced Scorecard - ANSWER ✔---A measurement system that transwerlates an organization's
strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures
Productivity - ANSWER ✔---The ratio of an organization's outputs (goods and services) to its inputs
(people, capital, energy, and materials)
Primary Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in agriculture, fishing and trapping, forestry, and mining
Secondary Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in manufacturing and construction
Tertiary or Service Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in public administration, personal and business
services, finance, trade, public utilities, and transwerportation/communications
Traditionalists - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born before 1946
, Baby Boomers - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born between 1946 and 1964
Generation X - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born between 1965 and 1980
Generation Y - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born since 1980
Contingent/Non-Standard Workers - ANSWER ✔---Workers who do not have regular full-time
employment status
Globalization - ANSWER ✔---The emergence of a single global market for most products and services
Organizational Culture - ANSWER ✔---The core values, beliefs, and assumptions that are widely
shared by members of an organization
Organizational Climate - ANSWER ✔---The prevailing atmosphere that exists in an organization and
its impact on employees
Empowerment - ANSWER ✔---Providing workers with the skills and authority to make decisions that
would traditionally be made by managers
Certification - ANSWER ✔---Recognition for having met certain professional standards
Regulations - ANSWER ✔---Legally binding rules established by special regulatory bodies created to
enforce compliance with the law and aid in its interpretation
Charter of Rights and Freedoms - ANSWER ✔---Federal law enacted in 1982 that guarantees
fundamental freedoms to all Canadianswer
Management in Canada
Midterm 2025 – Complete
Study Guide & Review
Human Resources Management (HRM) - ANSWER ✔---The management of people in organizations
to drive successful organizational performance and achievement of the organization's strategic goals
Human Capital - ANSWER ✔---The knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of an
organization's workforce
Scientific Management - ANSWER ✔---The process of "scientifically" analyzing manufacturing
processes, reducing production costs, and compensating employees based on their performance levels
Human Resources Movement - ANSWER ✔---A management philosophy focusing inn concern for
people and productivity
,Outsourcing - ANSWER ✔---The practice of contracting with outside vendors to handle specified
business functions on a permanent basis
Employee Engagement - ANSWER ✔---The emotional and intellectual involvement of employees in
their work, such as intensity, focus, and involvement in his or her job and organization
Strategy - ANSWER ✔---The company's plan for how it will balance its internal strengths and
weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain a competitive advantage
Change Agents - ANSWER ✔---Specialists who lead the organization and its employees through
organizational change
Environmental Scanning - ANSWER ✔---Identifying and analyzing external opportunities and threats
that may be crucial to the organization's success
Metrics - ANSWER ✔---Statistics used to measure activities and results
Balanced Scorecard - ANSWER ✔---A measurement system that transwerlates an organization's
strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures
Productivity - ANSWER ✔---The ratio of an organization's outputs (goods and services) to its inputs
(people, capital, energy, and materials)
Primary Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in agriculture, fishing and trapping, forestry, and mining
Secondary Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in manufacturing and construction
Tertiary or Service Sector - ANSWER ✔---Jobs in public administration, personal and business
services, finance, trade, public utilities, and transwerportation/communications
Traditionalists - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born before 1946
, Baby Boomers - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born between 1946 and 1964
Generation X - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born between 1965 and 1980
Generation Y - ANSWER ✔---Individuals born since 1980
Contingent/Non-Standard Workers - ANSWER ✔---Workers who do not have regular full-time
employment status
Globalization - ANSWER ✔---The emergence of a single global market for most products and services
Organizational Culture - ANSWER ✔---The core values, beliefs, and assumptions that are widely
shared by members of an organization
Organizational Climate - ANSWER ✔---The prevailing atmosphere that exists in an organization and
its impact on employees
Empowerment - ANSWER ✔---Providing workers with the skills and authority to make decisions that
would traditionally be made by managers
Certification - ANSWER ✔---Recognition for having met certain professional standards
Regulations - ANSWER ✔---Legally binding rules established by special regulatory bodies created to
enforce compliance with the law and aid in its interpretation
Charter of Rights and Freedoms - ANSWER ✔---Federal law enacted in 1982 that guarantees
fundamental freedoms to all Canadianswer
