第12节人力资源管理_2.pptVIP

Managers can manage downsizing by communicating openly and honestly, following appropriate laws regarding severance pay or benefits, providing support/counseling for surviving employees, reassigning roles according to individuals’ talents and backgrounds, focusing on boosting morale, and having a plan for empty office spaces. Sexual harassment is any unwanted action or activity of a sexual nature that explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, performance, or work environment. Managers need to be aware of what constitutes an offensive or hostile work environment, educate employees on sexual harassment, and ensure that no retaliatory actions are taken against any person who files harassment charges. Also, they may need to have a policy in place for workplace romances. Organizations are dealing with work–family life balance issues by offering family-friendly benefits such as on-site child care, flextime, telecommuting, and so on. Managers need to understand that people may prefer programs that segment work and personal lives, while others prefer programs that integrate their work and personal lives. Organizations are controlling HR costs by controlling employee health care costs through employee health initiatives (encouraging healthy behavior and penalizing unhealthy behaviors) and controlling employee pension plans by eliminating or severely limiting them. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Exhibit 12-9 provides a description of the various traditional and technology-based training methods that managers might use. Of all these training methods, experts believe that organizations will increasingly rely on e-learning and mobile applications to deliver important information and to develop employees’ skills. * * * Although appraising someone’s performance is never easy, especially with employees who aren’t doing their jobs well, managers can be better at it by using any of the seven different performance appraisal methods. A description of each of these m