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Human Resource Decision Making In Organizations
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1 Discuss the role of ethics in human resource decision making
2 Describe the concept of rightsizing and identify organizational strategies for rightsizing
3 Describe how to manage termination and retention
4 Describe the elements of voluntary turnover
5 Discuss the key human resource issues during mergers and acquisitions
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Ethics and Human Resource Management
• Ethics: Individual’s beliefs about what is right and wrong and what is good and bad• Formed by the societal context in which people
and organizations function
• Different countries and different cultures have different values and norms
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Rightsizing the Organizations
• Process of monitoring and adjusting the composition of the organization’s workforce to its optimal size
• Managing the size of the workforce involves:• Layoffs or early retirement programs to reduce
the size of workforce
• Retention programs to maintain the size of the workforce
• Using temporary workers as a bridge between the current state of affairs
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Dealing with Increased Demand for
Employees
• Easiest way to deal with a temporary increase in demand for employees is to offer overtime opportunities• Overtime: Hours worked above the normal 40-
hour workweek, for which there is usually a pay premium
• Other alternatives are employee leasing and part-time workers
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Dealing with a Declining Need for Employees
• Cut back on the contingent workforce and retain only permanent members
• Early retirement and natural attrition • Provide incentives for other employees to retire
early
• Not replacing workers who leave voluntarily
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Strategies for Layoffs
• When notified of a layoff, some employees decide to sue the organization for wrongful termination
• Critical determinant of an employee’s reaction to being laid off is his or her perceptions of the justice involved in the layoff process
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Types of Justice
• Perceptions that the outcomes a person faces are fair when compared to the outcomes faced by others
Distributive
• Perceptions used to determine the outcomes were fair
Procedural
• Quality of the interpersonal treatment people receive when a decision is implemented
Interactional
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Table
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6.1 Critical Dimensions of Procedural Justice
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Managing Terminations and Retention
• Managing involuntary turnover• Involuntary turnover: Terminating employees
whose services are no longer desired
• Before terminating an employee, managers should always start with an effort to rectify the problem
• Employee assistance program (EAP) help employees and reduce the costs associated with lost workdays and poor productivity
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Managing Terminations and Retention
• Progressive discipline• Designed to try to improve performance through
the use of punishment
• Progressive disciplinary plans
• Verbal warning
• Written warnings
• Suspension
• Termination
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Managing Terminations and Retention
• Employment at will• Employer can terminate any employee, at any
time, for any reason
• Employee retention• Ways of reducing the voluntary turnover of
desired employees
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6.1 A Model of the Turnover Process
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Managing Voluntary Turnover
• Causes of job dissatisfaction• Nature of the work
• Pay and benefits
• Supervisors and co-workers
• The effects of job dissatisfaction• Organizational commitment
• Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs)
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Managing Voluntary Turnover
• Measuring and monitoring job satisfaction• Through attitude surveys
- Job descriptive index (JDI) - Assesses satisfaction with specific job aspects
• Retention strategies• Job enrichment - Making work more meaningful
and granting more autonomy and opportunity to use skills
• Realistic job previews: Pre-employment previews that provide accurate and realistic information to the job applicant
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Managing Human Resources During Mergers
and Acquisitions
• Employees in merged firms are concerned about the jobs
• Important to build employee identification with the new corporate identity
SUMMARY
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• Ethics refers to an individual’s beliefs about what is right and wrong and what is good and bad
• Number of an organization’s employees must be adjusted to fit the changing needs of the business
• Mergers and acquisitions cost most stress to employees due to imminent layoffs
KEY TERMS
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• Discipline (p. 128)• Distributive justice (p. 123)• Employee leasing (p. 122)• Employment at will (p.128)• Ethics (p. 118)• Interactional justice (p. 124)• Involuntary turnover (p.127)• Job dissatisfaction (p. 130)• Job embeddedness (p. 131)• Organizational citizenship
behaviors (OCBs [p. 133])
• Organizational commitment
(p. 132)
• Overtime (p. 121)
• Part-time workers (p. 122)
• Procedural justice (p. 124)
• Progressive disciplinary
plans (p. 128)
• Punishment (p. 127)
KEY TERMS
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• Realistic job previews (RJPs [p. 134])
• Rightsizing (p. 120)
• Stock Options (p. 134)
• Suspension (p. 128)
• Termination (p. 128)
• Verbal warnings (p. 128)
• Written warnings (p.128)
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