702 MHA chapter 4
Compensation department
- concerned with wages and salaries
- recommends starting pay for new hires consistent with their education and experience (taking
into account the wages of existing employees)
- specialist in _ monitoring an organization's wage structure to ensure that pay equity exists in
the organization
- recommend changes in the wage structure that are consistent with pay changes in the local
community, industry, and individuals occupations as necessary
- "Hard side of HR"
Employee Relations
- referred to as "soft side of HR"
- advising supervisors and managers on how to proceed in addressing selected employee
problems or monitoring applications of the organizational disciplinary process
- listen to troubled employees and refer them to sources of assistance and advocate when
needed
- represent organization in relations or negotiations with external advocacy agencies (State
Division of Human Rights)
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Labor Relations
- exists as a separately in larger organizations BUT only when some or all of an organization's
nonmanagerial employees are unionized
- in small organizations with a union present labor relational activities become a part of another
HR's practitioner's job HR's practitioner's job (employee relations specialist or HR director)
, - continuing contact and ongoing relations with elected officials or one or more unions
representing some or all of an organization's eligible employees
- hearing and resolving complaints, bargaining agreements for grievances
- participate in contract negotiations
Employee Health and Safety
- __ and __ is often located separately from __ HOWEVER in small organizations they are
combined
- __ is often found in within an organization's medical divisions (can create problems with
confidentiality of records)
- __ __should be a subsidiary component of HR, with the director of the employee health
reporting directly to the chief of HR
-__renders service to employees by performing pre-employment physical examinations
- reporting should be done to the institution's medical director or chief of medicine
Training and Development
- subsidiary activity of HR
- depending on organizational size, it is frequently separated
- __ and __ are often a component of nursing department or patient care services
- many nursing department have developed and maintained educational capabilities and easily
crosses departmental boundaries
- Clinically oriented education remains in the nursing department
- other training that is not clinically based often originates and is presented by personnel from
HR
Security
- typically self-contained
- small organization where it may have reporting relationship to plant maintenance or building
services
- __ with a manager of its own may report to the head of HR
- Equally likely is a reporting relationship within the plant facilities chain of command or directly
to the administrator who oversees services of an entire organization
Child Care
- likely that the individual who manages __ __will report either to the chief human resource
officer or to another person such as the administrator for general services
- is subject to unique stat licensing arrangements that govern staffing and aspect of activities
- attaching it to HR is the service to employee services; some limit themselves exclusively to an
employee clientele but many often open to any member of the community
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