Business Skills for Engineers and Technologists

2

Human resource management

Summary

It is often said that an organization’s main resource is its people and it is certainly true that without people the organization will neither exist nor function.

As both a manager and as an employee you will need to deal with selecting and getting the best out of people. This chapter will introduce you to the many aspects of human resource management that you will need to know.

Objectives

By the end of this chapter, the reader should:

• be able to determine future manpower needs and how to meet them by recruitment and terminations (Section 2.1);

• understand how to make the most of people through motivation, job design, training and development (Section 2.2);

• understand the way people are rewarded by ...