Introduction to business: human resources management

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1. Managing Human Resources
   cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by City of Olathe, KS: http://flic.kr/p/bnSxBE
   

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2. Quiz
   • Closed book/closed notes
   • Put away phones until quiz is over
   • You may collaborate with your team
   • You are responsible for the answers on your
   quiz
   • You do not have to choose the same answers
   as your team
   

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3. Why do businesses hire?
   

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4. What is the purpose of a business?
   

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5. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by whalt:
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6. Recruiting
   How do businesses find job candidates?
   • Internal candidates
   • Internships
   • Recommendations from employees
   • Competing firms
   • Colleges/Schools
   • Unsolicited resumes
   • Classified ads/online services
   

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7. Recruiting
   Risks?
   • Internal candidates
   • Internships
   • Recommendations from employees
   • Competing firms
   • Colleges/Schools
   • Unsolicited resumes
   • Classified ads/online services
   

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10. Employment at will
    • No expectation of continued
    employment
    • Can fire employees for any reason
    • Can fire for no reason
    • Can't fire for discriminatory reason
    –race, religion, color, national origin,
    disability
    –union activity
    

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11. Alabama Employment at will
    • No public policy exception:
    • worker's compensation claim*
    • refusal to defraud company shareholders
    • complying with grand jury subpoena*
    • refusal to falsify medical records
    • refusal to commit perjury
    

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12. Union busting
    • Over 1/3 of companies respond to union
    elections by firing organizers
    • Recent examples:
    –Target
    –Starbucks
    –Jimmy John's
    

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13. Flip side of employment at will
    

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14. Federal employment law
    • Title VII Civil Rights Act 1964
    –race, religion, color, national origin,
    disability
    • Americans with Disabilities
    –disability
    • Equal Pay Act
    –Gender: equal pay for equal work
    • Age Discrimination in Employment Act
    –Workers >40
    

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15. Compensation
    • Wages
    • Commission
    • Piecework
    • Salary
    • Bonuses
    • Profit sharing
    • Benefits
    

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16. Collective Bargaining
    • Union representation
    • Labor contract
    • Labor disputes
    

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17. Labor tactics
    • Picketing
    • Strikes
    • Boycott
    

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18. Management tactics
    • Lockouts
    • Strikebreakers ("scabs")
    

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19. Resolution
    • Mediation
    • Arbitration
    

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