Module 7.2: Maintaining an Effective Workforce

 


a) Overview
b) Objectives
c) Reading
c) Lecture
e) Activities/Assignments

Overview


This module completes our set of modules on the topic of Human Resource Management. This current module focuses on how we retain our effective employees, now that we’ve invested time, energy, and other resources into attracting and developing them. As you’ve noted in your textbook, many factors relate to this topic. In this module we will focus primarily on the issue of compensation.
 

Objectives


After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

1. Describe the goals of compensation administration and
   factors that affect wage structures.
2. Know the legally required employee benefits and also some
   of the discretionary benefits firms offer.
2. Explain what is meant by the terms sexual harassment,
    labor–management cooperation, workplace violence, and
    layoff-survivor sickness.

 

Readings


Text book Chapter 6, pp. 175-181

Lecture

Note: The following lectures will open in separate windows. Please make sure you have the speakers volume turned 'on' to listen to the lecture. Once the page has finished loading you can start the lecture by hitting 'Play'.

As you’ve been learning in this module, human resources can provide a true competitive advantage for organizations. We invest a great deal of company resources into attracting and hiring the very best match for our organizational needs, and then measuring/monitoring performance, and offering training and development to make sure employee’s knowledge, skills, and abilities continue to grow and match our organizational requirements. The last thing we would likely want, at this point, is for our talented employees to leave our firm for another organization. So we need to focus on those factors which influence what we’ve called earlier, the “maintenance” of our employees.
 
Maintaining an Effective Workforce
Notes
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Activities/Assignments

Blackboard Quiz
Individual Activity
   
 

 

 
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