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The Challenge of Human Resources Management
The Challenge of Human Resources Management
Resources Management
Source: Near-Term Growth of Offshoring Accelerating, Forester Research, Inc., May 2004.
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Challenge 6: Containing Costs (cont’d)
• Employee Leasing
The process of dismissing employees who are then hired by
a leasing company (which handles all HR-related activities)
and contracting with that company to lease back the
employees.
Source: Reprinted by permission of Elsevier from “Managing for Effective Workforce Diversity” by Kathleen
Iverson from The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly 41, no. 2 (April 2000): 31–38.
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Highlights in HRM 5
Source: Survey data from Gail Robinson and Kathleen Dechant, “Building a Business Case for Diversity,” Academy of
Management Executive 11, no. 3 (August 1997): 21–31; permission conveyed through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Cultural
Changes
Source: Arthur Yeung, Wayne Brockbank, and Dave Ulrich, “Lower Cost, Higher Value: Human Resource Function in Transformation.” Reprinted
with permission from Human Resource Planning, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1994). Copyright 1994 by The Human Resource Planning Society, 317 Madison
Avenue, Suite 1509, New York, NY 10017, Phone: (212) 490-6387, Fax: (212) 682-6851.
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Key Terms
• corporate social • knowledge workers
responsibility • managing diversity
• downsizing • offshoring
• employee leasing • outsourcing
• globalization • proactive change
• human capital • reactive change
• human resources information • reengineering
system (HRIS)
• Six Sigma
• human resources
management (HRM) • total quality management
(TQM)