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Intro. To Leading, Managing & Developing People: Definitions
Intro. To Leading, Managing & Developing People: Definitions
- Heavily criticised for focus on task rather then employee welfare, first researcher in
organisational psychology, measured most effective employee rather than average
LMD 1
Elton Mayo (1930s) Hawthorne Studies, examination of employee productivity through
facilities' environment
HRM Theory
Personnel Management: employee focused, operational + administrative, reactive
performance management
Human Resource Management: business partner, strategic role, add value, proactive
importance of reflection and long term development
- Examine reasons for poor performance and address, recognise efficiency need
- Dependant on the vision, mission and goals of the organisation, US vs EU style
- Issue of efficiency vs employee satisfaction
L&D
Relations
Communications
Human Resources
High Performance Work System working towards the same goal
Universalistic Approach, need to recognise different contexts, causality?
LMD 1
Marketing
Strategy
Sales
HR
Business Performance
LMD 1
Change Agent
manage transformation
Process
People
Administrative Partner
Employee Champion
manage infrastructure
manage contribution
Operational
Positives
- Efficiencies of scales
- combined, central expertise with reduced overheads
- Strategic role, development of organisations future
- Business plan implementations, inclusive strategic rather than operational role
Negatives