Human Resource Management Flashcards

A comprehensive set of vocabulary flashcards covering the definition, evolution, functions, legal framework, recruitment, development, and maintenance phases of Human Resource Management.

Human Resource Management (Dessler, 2007)

The policies and practices involved in carrying out the 'people' or human resources aspects of a management position, including recruitment, screening, training, and appraising.

Welfare Officers

Personnel whose main purpose was to take care of employees through services like canteens during the 1900s Welfare Stage.

Personnel Administrator

The title that replaced 'welfare officer' between 1920 and 1930 to describe the more demanding nature of administrative tasks like recruitment, selection, and record-keeping.

Neoliberalism

A period in the late 1970s and early 1980s where market forces drove nation states, characterized by Thatcherism and Reaganism, emphasizing privatization and cost-cutting.

Human Relation's School

A school of thought pioneered by Elton Mayo and Kurt Lewin that emphasized improving the work environment and work groups to increase productivity.

Police Power

The right of the state to regulate labor relations for the general welfare and to maintain industrial peace.

Social Justice

The principle intended to ensure protection of the weaker social partner, which is labor (employees).

Labor Code of the Philippines

Enacted by virtue of Presidential Decree $442$ during Martial Law; it is the omnibus enabling decree that fleshes out the Labor Policy of the Constitution.

Labor Relations

The aspects or quality that bind together labor and capital in pursuit of mutual goals such as equitable pay and fair return on investment.

Human Resource Planning (HRP)

The process of ensuring that the organization has the right people at the right time doing the right job (Armstrong, 2003).

Job Analysis

The process of identifying, analyzing, and determining the duties, responsibilities, skills, abilities, and work environment of a specific job.

Job Description

A document describing the scope of job roles, responsibilities, and the job's placement within the organization.

Job Specification

A document focusing on the requirements (qualifications and experience) of the candidate to be hired.

Recruitment

The process of identifying, screening, shortlisting, and hiring qualified candidates to fill open positions.

Employee Referrals

An internal source of recruitment where current employees recommend candidates for open positions.

Selection

A negative process that aims to exclude or reject as many candidates as feasible in order to find the best candidate for the job.

Induction (Orientation)

The acculturation process designed to teach new employees about company culture, beliefs, policies, products, and responsibilities.

Education

The systematic exposure to new knowledge, concepts, and ideas intended to increase knowledge or change attitudes and beliefs.

Cascade Training

A cost-effective method where the organization sends only one worker to a course with the expectation that they will train their coworkers upon return.

Cross-training

A method by which employees gain management experience by temporarily filling in for a manager or performing functions outside their normal job.

Organizational Exit (Decruitment)

The process of managing the conditions under which employees leave the organization, whether voluntary or involuntary.

Misconduct

Unlawful or improper behavior, such as dereliction of duty, insubordination, theft, or persistent tardiness.

Intrinsic Motivation

Motivation derived from self-generated factors where individuals find their work important, interesting, challenging, and providing autonomy.

Instrumentality Theory

The belief, emerging in the second half of the 19th century, that people work solely for monetary gain.

ERG Theory (Alderfer)

A theory of human needs comprising three categories: Existence, Relatedness, and Growth.

Two-Factor Model (Herzberg)

A motivation model distinguishing between 'satisfiers' (job content/achievement) and 'dissatisfiers' or 'hygiene factors' (job context/salary/supervision).

Theory X (McGregor)

The traditional belief that the average human dislikes work and must be coerced, controlled, or threatened with punishment to put forth effort.

Theory Y (McGregor)

The perspective that people exercise self-direction in the service of goals to which they are committed.

Equity Theory (Adams)

A theory concerned with people's perceptions of how they are treated fairly in comparison to others.

Performance Management

A continuous process that includes activities such as Plan, Act, Monitor, and Review to reach individual and organizational goals.

Remuneration

The monetary compensation an employee receives in exchange for his or her services to the organization.

Job Evaluation

A systematic process that defines the relative worth or size of jobs within an organization to establish an equitable grade structure.

RA 6715

The primary law amending Article $211$ of the Labor Code regarding the State Policy on Labor Relations.

Diversity

Acknowledging, understanding, accepting, and valuing differences among people with respect to age, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and disabilities.

RA 11058

The Philippine Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Law, also known as 'An Act Strengthening Compliance with OSH Standards'.