文档介绍：CHAPTER 1
Changing Nature
of Human
Resource
Management
After you have read this chapter, you should be able to:
● Identify four major HR challenges currently facing
organizations and managers.
● List and define each of the seven major categories of HR
activities.
● Identify the three different roles of HR management.
● Discuss the three dimensions associated with HR
management as a strategic business contributor.
● Explain why HR professionals and operating managers
must view HR management as an interface.
● Discuss why ethical issues and professionalism affect HR
management as a career field.
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HR TRANSITIONS
HR Management Contributes to
Organizational ess
More effective management of human functional work teams, and signifi- women employees, posed
resources (HR) increasingly is being cantly increasing training. To ease about three-fourths of the bank’s
seen as positively affecting perfor- employee and managerial anxieties workers. As a result, several years later
mance anizations, both large and about the changes, GE Fanuc about one-fourth of all managers and
small. promised that no employees would executives are women. Similar atten-
A joint venture between General lose their jobs. Managers and supervi- tion also was focused on other diverse
Electric and a pany, GE sors affected by the elimination of lev- groups of employees. So that all
Fanuc is a manufacturer of factory els were offered promotions, transfers employees were given opportunities to
automation and control products. to other jobs in GE Fanuc, or early grow and learn, the Bank of Montreal’s
Headquartered in Virginia with 1,500 retirement buyouts. Additionally, Institute of Learning was established
employees, the HR department pri- employees were promised profit shar- at a cost exceeding $50 million. The
marily performed administrative sup- ing, which has resulted in up to three goal of providing five days of training
port activities. But when Donald weeks addit