Contingent workers
Workers who do not have the expectations of regular full-time employment. Are eventually offered full-time positions. Managers are using temporary employees as a way of weeding out poor workers and finding good hires
Types of training (7)
- Orientation: initiates new employees
- On-the-job training: most fundamental type of training. Learns by doing, then imitates them
- Apprentice program: involve period learning works alongside an experience employee
- Off-the-job training: away for workplace, internal or external programs to develop
- Online training: online classes called distant learning
- Vestibule training: (near job training), done in classrooms taught on equipment similar to that used in the job
- Job stimulation: use of equipment that duplicates job conditions and tasks, so they can learn skills before attempting them in job
Management development
Process of training and educating employees to become good managers and then monitoring the progress over time
Performance appraisal
An evaluation in which the performance level of employees is measured against established standards to make decisions about promotions
Fringe benefits
Such as sick-leave pay, vacation pay…
Represent additional compensation beyond base wages
Soft benefits
Help employees maintain balance between work and family life, by giving free breakfast or haircuts, so they have more time at home.
Cafeteria-style fringe benefits
Fringe benefits plan that allows employees to choose the benefits they want up to a certain dollar amount
Determining a firm’s human resource ne
- Preparing a human resource inventory of the organizations employees, so they can see if labor force is technically uptodate and thoroughly trained
- Job analysis, a study of what is done by employees who hold various titles.
- job descriptions, type of work
- job specification, minimum requirements - Assessing future human resource demands, must proactive anticipate and forecast the future
- Assessing future supply, labor is shifting
- Strategic plan
