Exam 1: The Challenges of Hrm

For both male and female,younger and older workers,balancing the demands of family and work present significant challenges.Proactive human resource practitioners are responding to their employees' concerns and needs by providing "family friendly" policies and practices.Describe one "family friendly" program and/or policy and its potential impact on employee health and/or retention.

What are two main types of corporate strategies?

"Family friendly" is a broad term that may include unconventional hours,daycare,part-time work,job sharing,maternity leave,executive transfers,and telecommuting.

Re-engineering requires HR practices that address communication between departments and work groups.

Which of the following is NOT part of the major role of HR professionals?

Ciara McKay,the banquet manager at Riverside Hotels,typically provides coaching and feedback to her employees.What type of authority is Ciara using?

What HR activity provides the resources to assist employees in developing the necessary knowledge and skills to do their jobs today and in the future?

What does HRM refer to?

What does the federal law PIPEDA deal with?

Which demographic change is of concern to organizations?

According to Statistics Canada,what percentage of the labour force growth do immigrants represent?

LB Brands,a Western Canada marketing company,had grown to 100 employees.Joan Farris the Vice President of Marketing spends much of her day developing and coaching people and helping to solve problems.She has a prescribed employee performance management process.She feels that decisions concerning her employee staffing,training and performance appraisals are her responsibility.Jay Carter,the Vice President of HR,feels that LB Brands must have consistent HR practices and that staffing,training and performance management decisions must be centralized in the HR department. -Please refer to Scenario 1.1.What training and performance management processes fall under the Vice President of HR?

Scenario 1.4: HRM Challenges-Innovative Hydraulic Systems Lansdowne Inc. ,a Quebec-based company,designs and manufactures innovative hydraulic systems which are sold to projects in more than 20 countries.They hire people based on their specialized technical and broader innovation and communication skills.They recruit globally.They also continue to provide training to their employees in the leading edge hydraulic systems technology and provide workplace environments that encourage innovation.Their mission and strategy is to be competitive through technical innovation. -Please refer to Scenario 1.4.What is the influence of technology on Lansdowne Inc.'s HRM?

Scenario 1.2: HRM Challenges-A Mining Merger Trimack Resources Inc. ,a Western Canada mining company,bought WestStar Mining,an Eastern Canada company.Ray Morrison,the CEO of Trimack Resources Inc.was focused on ensuring the new business revolved around how well the people side of the merger was handled.Ray felt that it was critical that the two businesses integrated their people.Morgan Grant,the CEO of WestStar Mining was focused on managing the complex financial issues of the merger.Morgan felt that it was critical that the financial reports were in order before they could move forward with their strategic plans.The new HRM department immediately began terminating employees when they noticed that there were several situations where two employees were doing the work of one position. -Please refer to Scenario 1.2.Which CEO's approach would be most effective for the merger to succeed?

What do changes in the workplace involving employee privacy,employment equity,and pay equity reflect?

Risk-taking skills are necessary to develop relationships that support innovation.

HR professionals provide guidance and assistance as internal consultants to line managers.

Scenario 1.5: HRM Challenges-Outsourcing Over the past decade CIBC,BMO and RBC financial groups have outsourced some of their human resource services.Recently RBC has brought back several of their HR-related services in-house. -Please refer to Scenario 1.5.Why would these financial groups outsource their HR services?

ARC Refrigeration Inc.is particularly good at bringing together different kinds of people to achieve their common organizational purpose.What is this the essence of?

Scenario 1.5: HRM Challenges-Outsourcing Over the past decade CIBC,BMO and RBC financial groups have outsourced some of their human resource services.Recently RBC has brought back several of their HR-related services in-house. -Please refer to Scenario 1.5.What external organizational factors are influencing these financial groups to outsource?