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MHR Assignment
MHR Assignment
CONTENTS
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Task 01
P1.1 Explain Guests model of Hard-soft...
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Task 02
P2.1 Review and explain a model of flexibility.
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Task 03
P3.1 Describe the forms of discrimination ...
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Task 04
P4.1 Explain performance management..
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27 points of difference
Dimension
Personnel and IR
HRM
BELIEVS AND
ASSUMPTIONS
Contract
Careful delineation of
written contracts
Importance of devising
clear rules/ mutuality
Procedures
Aim to go beyond
contract
Can- do outlook;
impatience with rule
Business need
Values/mission
Pluralist
Institutionalized
Unitarist
De-emphasized
Key relations
Initiatives
Corporate plan
Speed of decision
LINE MANAGEMENT
Labour management
Piecemeal
Marginal to
Slow
Customer
Integrated
Central to
Fast
Management role
Key managers
Transactional
Personnel/ IR specialists
Communication
Standardization
Indirect
High (e.g. parity an
issue)
Negotiation
Transformational leader
General/business/line
managers
Direct
Low (e.g. parity not
seen as relevant
Facilitation
Rules
Guide to management
action
Behavior referent
Managerial Task vis--vis
labor
Nature of relations
Conflict
Nurturing
STRATEGIC ASPECTS
Thrust of relations
with stewards
Many
Restricted flow
Division of labour
Reach temporary truces
Controlled access to
courses
Personnel procedures
Conditions
Labor management
Integrated, key-task
Performance-related
Harmonization
Towards individual
contracts
Marginalised (exception
of some bargaining for
change models)
Few
Increased flow
Teamwork
Manage climate and
culture
Learning companies
Wide ranging cultural
structural and personnel
strategies
Be an employee
Have a child under the age of six years old, or a disabled child
under 18 by the childs mother, father, adopter, guardian or foster
parent. Alternatively the law still applies if you are married to, or
the partner of the childs mother, father, adopter, guardian or foster
parent
Not have made another application to work flexibly under this right
during the previous 12 months. (Somerfield 2005)
2.2 Describe the need for flexibility and types of flexibility which
may be developed by your organization and give an example of
how they can be implemented
Need for Flexibility
The need of the flexibility strategy should be to develop a flexible firm
(Atkinson, 1984) by providing for greater operational and role flexibility.
5 | London College of Business
Whit regard to flexibility in the pattern and organization of work the main
needs for employers are:
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Employee
Survey evidence of employees reactions to flexible working arrangements
is thin, but generally they are perceived as a good thing, offering
employees:
7 | London College of Business
The disadvantages
Employer
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Employee
-
Areas covered
Sex and marital status (the latter
referring specifically to persons who
are married)
Persons who intend to undertake a
sex change, are currently in the
process of doing so or have completed
treatment
Race, colour, nationality or ethnic
origins
The duty of public authorities to take
Traynor. 2002.
Human
Resource
Peter Sheal. 1999. The Staff Development Hand Book: Kogan Page
Limited.
Strategic Human Resource Management
(CMS Cameron McKenna LLP .03/06)