Human Resource Management Chapter 1 Key Terms

Line manager

On the organization chart, managers with line authority

Staff manager

Those with staff (advisory) authority

Organization

consists of people with formally assigned roles who work together to achieve the organizations goals

Staff Authority

gives a manager the right to advise other managers or employees. It creates an advisory relationship. When the human resource manager suggests that the plant manager use a particular selection test, he or she is exercising staff authority

Functional Authority

he or she ensures that line managers are implementing the firms human resource policies and practice

Management Process

planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling

Globalization

refers to the tendency of firms to extend their sales, ownership, and/or manufacturing to new markets abroad.

Talent Management

the goal-oriented and Integrated process of planning, recruiting, developing, managing, and compensating employees.It involves instituting a coordinated process for identifying, recruiting, hiring, and developing high-potential employees

Human Capital

the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm s workers.

Manager

the person responsible for accomplishing the organizations goals, who does so by managing the efforts of the organizations people

Human Resource Managment

the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns

Authority

the right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders.

Line Authority

traditionally gives managers the right to issue orders to other managers or employee