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Outline the human resource staffing process The human resource staffing process includes: organizational strategizing and planning, determining human resource needs, recruiting applicants, selecting job applicants, developing employees, and maintaining diverse employees. |
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Explain how human resource staffing is connected to corporate strategic planning. Human Resources Planning ensures that organizations have the right people in the right positions at the right time. The partnership of human resource management with strategic management ensures that the organization will achieve its goals. |
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Describe the steps followed in human resource planning. The human resource planning process involves: 1) conducting job analyses, 2) estimating future HR demands, 3) documenting current HR supply, 4) estimating future internal HR supply, and 5) estimating future external HR supply. |
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Discuss the importance of diversity in organizational settings. Diversity for many firms is a corporate strategy and refers to the differences in the demographic, cultural, and personal characteristics of employees. Because of global expansion, seeking workplace diversity makes “good business sense”—beyond the ethical and legal reasons. |
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Explain the value of the employer brand in recruitment Employer brand is the package of functional, economic, and psychological benefits gained from employment with the organization and association with the brand image of the organization. Recruiters use the employer brand as another means of enticing desirable candidates to the firm. |
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Identify ways to improve the validity of employment interviews. Validity represents how well a selection method predicts an applicant’s suitability and success for the job. Improvement in selection can come from two determinants: 1) looking at an applicant’s past behavior as a predictor of future behavior and 2) viewing an applicant’s work samples as historical proof of past behavior. |
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Describe several selection methods for hiring employees. Selection methods for hiring include: application forms, resumes, reference checks, work sample tests, employment interviews (behaviorally based or unstructured), ability tests, and personality tests. |
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Outline training methods and what managers should do to maximize their effectiveness. Training methods should be matched appropriately to the needs of the individual and to company objectives in order to achieve effectiveness. Different training methods include: lectures, audiovisual materials, computer-based training, coaching/mentoring, job rotation, role-playing, and action learning. |