Human Resource Management
mindmap_unit2.pdfUnit 2: Human Resource Management
In this unit, students explore how businesses recruit, organize, develop and lead their arguably most important resource—their people. In unit 2, students also learn what motivates individuals to perform well at work. Given the pace of change in modern business, the unit looks at how structural changes and changes in the business environment or in key people impact on human resource management. Ethical considerations and cross-cultural understanding are particularly relevant for unit 2, and especially in examining global corporations that have a multinational workforce and diverse stakeholder groups.
Suggested BM Tools to integrate
Force field analysis (HL only)
Descriptive statistics
SWOT analysis
STEEPLE analysis
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (HL only)
CCES CONNECTIONS:
Suggested inquiry statements to explore:
How technological advancement could help businesses manage their human resources department in a more efficient way.
How creative organizational structures can be more suitable in the dynamic business world.
Why a democratic style of leadership is one way of encouraging creativity in a business.
The impact of financial motivation on employees’ sustainable behaviour.
How effective communication could impact business success.
Why ethical and sustainable organizations are more likely to recruit top talent and have higher employee retention
TOK CONNECTIONS
Suggested theory of knowledge questions
Is it inevitable that the implicit biases of the interviewer will influence the outcome of interviews?
Is being knowledgeable an essential quality in a manager?
How might emotive language and faulty reasoning be used in collective bargaining negotiations?
In what ways can language be used to influence, persuade or manipulate employees?
Should critical events in the historical development of the industrial/employee relations always be
judged by the standards of their time?
Can we ever really know what motivates an employee?
Brief History of HR
Brief Future of HR
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Think Outside the Box HR
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Meet some Human Resource Managers (HRM)
Alyce, a HRM at WA Mines & Petroleum: You need to be a good people's person, you need to love working with people and also excellent communication skills"
Google Head of People Operations and “Work Rules” Author Laszlo Bock discusses employment at Google. How intrapreneurs are the valued future of our world
Amazon's HRM and Talent Acquisition: "Amazon is a company that will support anybody with any requirements that they might have to be the most successful at their jobs and find best tools, mechanism & resources to fully enrich their career journeys."
Todd, Sr. Organizational development and HRM at Disney: "It is critical to be adaptive, so we always try to provide thought leadership on how to think differently in an organization... I call myself a Chief Happiness Officer - that my role is to make this a place that people want to skip (hop out of joy) to work everyday"
Amy, HRM for CMO.com: "We like to celebrate success, so this may involve using our own company barbecues or sourcing pizza to lots of outings for over hundred stuff
And...just for laughs... the HRM at TBS network gets into the role of a psychologist for Conan O'brien and his assistant...