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Negotitation
Joint examination to resolve conflict by reaching solution acceptable to both parties
Importance of negotiation
-Relevant for everyone
-helps receive a workin resolution
-preserve relationships
-reduces stress and potential conflicts
Aspects of negotiation
-setting objectives
-formal/informal or collective/individual
-occurs at all levels
Why negotiate
Managers-enhance performance
Employees- work life/balance
Forms of negotiation
Distributive - win lose
Integrative - win win
Impacts of negotiation
Competing- you lose, I win
Collaborating- I win, you win
Compromising- I win some, you win some, I lose some, you lose some
Avoiding- I lose, you lose
Accommodating- I lose, you win
Stages of negotiation
1. Preparation and planning
2. Definition of ground rules
3. Clarification and justification
4. Bargaining and problem solving
5. Closure and implementation
Successful negation
Requires serious thought and preparation
Communication skills
Look forward not backwards
Adopt a win win attitude
Staffing - HRM
HRM- effective use of human resources in order to enhance organisational performance
HRM 3 key elements
1.Attracting - planning, recruitment, selection
2.developing - training, learning and development, career planning and development
3. Maintaining - retention, performance review and remuneration
HR planning
-Having right person at the right time with the right skills in the right place
-important to anticipate changes
Planning process
1. Identify staff requirements
2. Assess demand for human resources - gap analysis
3. Forecasting - assess future demand
4. Assessing internal and external supply of human resources
5. Creating an action plan to staff organisation. Long term and short term
Cost of getting it wrong
Loss of other key staff
Burnout
Further recruitment costs
Training and orientation investment loss
Reduced profits
Impaired reputation and image
Learning and development
The people develop
Team and groups work better
The organisation improves
Learning theories
Behaviourist approach
Cognitive approach
Social learning
Experiential learning
Behaviourist approach
Classical - behaviours are shaped by the pairing of stimulus eg. Certain smell or song brings on certain emotion
Operant conditioning - behaviours as a result of consequences eg. Repeat behaviours that are rewarded positively
Cognitive approach
Linking ideas with experiences and situations - link theory and practice
Social learning
Learning by observation and imitation
Experiential learning
Requires personal involvement
Responsibility for learning rests with learner
4 learning styles - activists (concrete experience), reflectors (reflective observation), theorists (understand underlying concepts), pragmatists (active experimentation)
Training
Link to business strategy
Assess needs
Design and deliver activities
Evaluate effectiveness
Evaluate effectiveness
4 levels
Reaction - at conclusion of activity
Immediate - assessment of learning outcomes
Intermediate - impact on performance
Ultimate - impact on organisational performance
Performance management
Staffing
-Planning, acquiring and retaining a work force
- determine who will work for organisation

Staffing process - matching people with jobs
1. Job design
2. Job analysis
3. Job description
4. Person specification
5. Recruitment
6. Selection
7. Appointment
Job design
How tasks to be performed are combined to form job
Job analysis
Collecting and analysing information about tasks and responsibilities of job
Methods- computer systems, questionNaires, interviews
Outcomes- job description and person specification
Job description
Describes activities to be done, identifies tasks, duties and responsibilities
Key elements
1. Job title
2. Location
3. Purpose of job
4. Hours
5. Responsibilities/duties
6. Salary conditions and incentives
Person specification
Attributes specific to the person like knowledge and skills, abilities needed to perform job satisfactorily
Includes - training and qualifications, experience
Recruitment
Process of attracting a pool of qualified and experienced candidates to apply for position.
Internal and external recruitment
W
Selection
Most suitable applicant for position
Common to use more than one data method
Techniques - reference checks interviews and personality tests
Choice - practicability, sensitivity, reliability l, validity
Performance management
Everything in HR - attraction, development & maintenance

Aims to improve performance
4 key elements of pm
Induction and socialisation
Reviewing and appraising performance
Reinforcing performance standards
Counselling and support
1.Induction & socialisation
Begins after commencement of employment, induction is te process of the socialisation of individuals into the organisation
2.Reviewing and appraising performance
Performance appraisal
- development - coach
- administrative - judge - determines pay and promotions, transfers and demotions

5 Step MBO process
1. Set objectives
2. Cascade objectives to employees
3. Monitor
4. Evaluate performance
5. Reward performance
Problems/issues with pm appraisals
Validity - behavioral traits difficult to measure
Conflicting aims of pm mgt process
Inadequate line manager skills and training
No pm system is perfect because of the bureaucratic nature
Biases such as
-halo effect - one good aspect clouds all others
- horn effect - one negative aspects clouds all others
- crony - appraiser and appraiser to close

Managing poor performance
Should identify shortcomings in performance don't leave until review time
Identify possible causes and solutions
Implement performance imrovement program
- document all procedures
Managing review outcomes
Initiate dismissal process is performance remains unsatisfactory
If no cases of theft or assault, dismiss with notice after procedural fairness which is escalated system of warnings e. 3 strikes your out
3. Reinforcing performance standards
Standards and objectives need to be SMART
Quality of outcomes maybe more important than quantity
Use of formal and informal methods to clarify standards
4. Counselling and support
Utilise listening skills
Counselling provided
Alleviate absenteeism and health and well being problems
Managing ansence
Reasons - poor health, job related stress
Define problem and set up appropriate mgt systems
Approaches - informal chats, interviews, counselling, hard approach disciplinary action
Reward management
Process by which organisations distribute financial or other rewards to employees
- attract motivate and retain employees
Motivation and rewards
Extrinsic
Intrinsic
Modern content theories
Mcgregor
Maslow
Herzberg
Process theories
Concerned with how motivation occurs
Focus on extrinsic needs
Main theories
Lockes goal setting theory
Adams equity theory
Vrooms expectancy theory
Lockes theory
Specific and difficult goals with self generated feedback leading to higher performance
Relation ship between goals and performance depend on
Self efficacy
Goal commitment
Task characteristics
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Adams theory
N
B
V
V
Adams theory
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B
V
V
Adams theory
Vrooms expectancy theory
Tendency to act in a certain way depending on expectation that the act will be followed by given outcomes
1. Effort
2. Performance
3. Reward
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V
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Adams theory
Vrooms expectancy theory
Tendency to act in a certain way depending on expectation that the act will be followed by given outcomes
1. Effort
2. Performance
3. Reward
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V
Bases for pay systems
Time - easily understood and administered
Results - provide strong incentive
Enterprise - employee effort and achievement
Performance - objectives and indicators eg customer satisfaction levels
Skills
Don't forget pat on back
Intrinsic (non monetary) factors more effective motivators than extrinsic d
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