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Human
Resource
Managemen
t and
Labor
Relations
chapter ten

Business
Essentials
9e
Ebert/Griffin

After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:
1. Define human resource management and explain
how managers plan for their organization’s human
resource needs.
2. Identify the tasks in staffing a company and discuss
ways in which organizations select new employees.
3. Describe how managers develop the workforce in

their organization through training and performance
appraisal.
4. Describe the main components of a compensation
system and describe some of the key legal issues
involved in hiring, compensating, and managing
workers in today’s workplace.
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After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:
5. Discuss the legal context of human resource
management and identify the contemporary
legal issues.
6. Discuss workforce diversity, the
management of knowledge workers, and the
use of a contingent workforce as important
changes in the contemporary workplace.
7. Explain why workers organize into labor

unions.
8. Describe the collective bargaining process.
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The Foundations of Human
Resource Management
 Human resource management
(HRM)
└ the set of organizational activities
directed at attracting, developing, and
maintaining an effective workforce.

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