HRM
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Language | English |
Category | Micro-Economics |
Level | University |
Created / Updated | 05.05.2020 / 01.01.2024 |
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Briefly state what the Behavioral method in Performance management measures
Explain the five different types of behavioral methods
- measures how the person went about doing something
Graphic rating scale method: Knowledge of work, initiative, application, quality of work, volume of work
Mixed standard scale method: is individuals perfromance above (+), equal (0) or lower (-) than standarts listed
Critical incident: Unusual event denoting superior or inferior employee performance, manager keeps log or diary throughout appraisal period
Behaviorally anchored rating scale BARS:
1. Competence 2. Definition 3. Ranks of tasks (high, average, low)
Behavior Observation BOS: Ranks behavior from 1-5 (each numer represents percentages)
Explain shortly what the Five Point Competency Rating Scale is about
Whats the difference to the Five-point Rating Scale
A (greatly exceeds profile)
B (exceeds profile)
C (meets profile)
D (below profile)
E (mostly below profile)
X (not applicable)
With numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6,X
Wha are the four components to Formulating strategic objectives Balanced Scorecard
Vision and Strategy gets influenced by:
- Market/clients (How to act upon market/clients to realise our strategy?)
- Financials (What financial gain do we need to survive?)
- Employees (How can we make best use of HR resources?)
- Business process (In which process should we lay our focus to achieve goals?)
What performance objective are represented in SMART Method
All performance objectives should be SMART
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Timely
Due to what issues can goals cause systematic problems to an organization?
- Narrowed focus
- Unethical behavior
- increased risk taking
- decreased cooperation
- Decreased intrinsic motivation
List some reasons why Performance appraisals fail
- Lack of information and support in top management
- Unclear performance standards
- Bias errors!
- Too many forms
- Use for conflicting purposes
List some issues Managers have with Perfromance appraisals
- Little face to face, they don’t like the face-to-face confrontation
- Relation between the job description and appraisal criteria isn’t clear
- Little or no benefit from time and energy spent in process
- Don’t have adept at rating employees or providing appraisal feedback
- Only once-a-year event
Whats the difference between the traditional and modern approach to PM
What are different options to chose from when planning and working in goal setting
Goal Setting --> feedback (traditional) , Evaluation --> Compensation (modern)
Goal setting:
Planning: annually (time to plan) or agile (time to adapt)
Working: working independently or as a team
What benefits does Feedback from managers bring?
Only managers:
1. Manager turnover
2. Dual-reporting relationships
3. Globalization
4. Critical Mindset
What options can we choose from when planning Feedback and Evaluation?
Feedback:
Source: from managers only, crowdsourced
Timeline: annual or in-the-moment
Purpose: Judgement or Coaching for Performance
Evaluation:
complex or simple
ratings or no ratings
Performance: inspiring vs. measuring employees
How can technology help with Perfromance Evaluation?
- Automation
- Reporting & analytics
- Centralization
- Accessibility
- Consistency
- Less administration work
What is OBOR (One Belt, one Road) stand for and what are the two different routes?
900 Billion $ development strategy by Chinese leader XI Jinping
--> connectivity and cooperation of countries primarily between CHina and Eurasia
1. Land-based: Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB)
2. Oceangoing: Maritime Silk Road (MSR)
What is the definition of human resource management?
Name the four elements of strategic management
- the process of managing HR to achieve organizations objectives
- mission, vision, strategy, core values (beliefs and principles)
HR Challenges and Trends:
Describe cost awareness and flexibility in 4 stages
What are the goals of it?
Stage 1: basic reporting and trending
Stage 2: benchmarking and correlations with business metrics
Stage 3: cause/effect analysis of key workforce outcomes
Stage 4: predictive analysis
Goals:
- Productivity and Compensation
- Data Analytics: building technical skills and expertise to take advantage of AI
- Disruptive Innovation: increase performance of G&S
HR Challenges and Trends:
What is Corporate Governance?
Give an example of a country with a high and a low Corruption Perception Index
Framework of rules/practices by which board director ensures:
- Accountability, fairness, transparency in company's relationship with stakeholder
high Index: Switzerland (85/100)
low Index: Somalia (10/100)
Besides Cost Awareness & Flexibility and Corporate Governance, what are other HR Challenges and Trends?
- Measuring and enhancing employee engagement
- Managing Global Workforce- Global staffing
- Performance Management
- Compensation Management
What is the CEO's List and what are it's four goals?
Advanced upskilling program site that improves engagement innovation and ability to attract and retain talent
1. Increasing job automation
2. Decreasing talent availability
3. Decreasing mobility of skilled labor
4. Ageing Talent
Strategic HRM:
Explain the Resource Based View
- views firm as a "bundel of resources"
- the way resources are combined can differentiate the firm --> analysis starting point is internal
1. Change capability: Processes to integrate, reconfigure, gain and release resources - to mach and create change
2. Knowledge Management:
Creation: Human Capital Pool (Knowledge, skills, ability, behavior)
Transfer: Relationships
Integration: Organization Capital (Processes, Routines)
What is the Application (Core competencies) of RBV?
Core competencies:
- skills and technologies enabling company to provide particular benefits to customer
- not product-specific
- sum of learning across individual skill sets and organizational units
Explain the best fit model
- Based on developing HRM policies acc. to business strategy (planning future activities, performance objectives, policies towards corporate aims
- HRM designed and applied to support given coporate strategy
What does the best practice model claim?
Claims that certain HR activities exist that universally support companies in gaining competitive advantage regardless of setting or industry
- performance management needed
What is human resource planning HRP
- Must be linked to org. overall strategy to compete domestically or globally
- Process of anticipating / making provisions for flow of people into, within, out of org.
("right number of people, with right skills, at right place, at right time")
Explain the term Forecasting when linked to planning
What is strategic workforce planning?
Critical element of planning:
- Demand of labor
- Supply of labor
- Balancing supply and demand considerations
Strategic Workforce Planning
- Forecasting future workforce and determining most effective practices and policies to close gaps and meet future workforce needs
What are the elements of the balanced scorecard?
- financial, customer, internal business process, learning and growth
--> all these points influence vision and strategy
What are the categories of a strategy map
Right service skills: Learning and growth
Effective Customer Service: Internal Business Process
Industry leading customer loyalty: Customer
Max. returns: Financial
Strategic vs. operational workforce planning
Explain the difference between the two
Strategic: alignment to organizations business strategy
- Effective, timely, quantitative, qualitative data capture --> predicting future risks and alternative futures
Operational: shorter forecast horizon (3-12 months)
Focus on identifying skill gaps, number of people to satisfy immediate needs and mechanical processes (recruitment, training spend) --> tool to manage "business as usual"
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