human resource staffing and performance management mana 5341 dr. george benson
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HR Staffing Legal Compliance Determining HR needs Projecting staffing levels Job analyses Managing competencies Identifying and recruiting employees Evaluating candidates Selection tests Interviewing Managing retentionTRANSCRIPT
Human Resource Management
Planning and Job Design
Compensation
EmployeeRelations
Recruiting and Selection
Training and Development
Performance Management
HR Staffing Legal Compliance Determining HR needs
Projecting staffing levels Job analyses Managing competencies
Identifying and recruiting employees Evaluating candidates
Selection tests Interviewing
Managing retention
Performance Management Performance management systems
Timing, forms, and outcomes Managing for employee motivation
Goal setting Pay for performance Providing performance feedback
Corporate Strategy Simplified
1. Core Competencies “An area of specialized expertise”
C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel (1990) Harvard Business Review Competitive advantage Something you do better than competitors
Cost Leadership
Cheaper Prices
Differentiation
Better Products
2. Efficiency vs. Innovation
Staffing and Strategy Performance requires HR practices that:
Match the business strategy Are internally consistent Fit with organizational values and beliefs
Some Examples: Self-managed teams (e.g. Whole Foods) Talent acquisition (e.g. Cisco, Texas Instruments) Rapid expansion (e.g. Starbucks) Low cost (e.g. Wal-Mart)
Staffing and Performance
Labor is the single most significant cost of doing business: payroll and replacement costs.
Business strategies require specific skills and behaviors to be successful.
Employees provide customer service, create value, and execute strategy.
HR practices can be crafted to support certain types of skills and encourage behaviors.
“How do we hire the right people?”
“How do we hire the right people?”
Traditionally staffing has focused on the match between an applicants skills and experience and the job requirements.
Match
PersonKSA’s
Motivation
JobRequirements
Rewards
Person/Job MatchPerson/Job Match
MatchImpact
PersonKSA’s
Motivation
JobRequirements
RewardsHR Outcomes
Performance Extra Effort Retention
Satisfaction Commitment
Person/Person/Organization Organization
MatchMatch
MatchImpact
PersonKSA’s
MotivationATTITUDE
JobRequirements
Rewards
Organization
Task Flexibility
Val
ues/
Cul
ture
Career Progression
HR Outcomes
Performance Extra Effort Retention
Satisfaction Commitment
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines
Recruiters speak in the same near-spiritual terms. What's he looking for in a candidate? "An attitude -- a genuineness -- a sense of what it takes to be one of us."
“It takes a special individual to become a Customer Service Agent, and we look for folks who are eager, who are “quick on their feet” with “outside the box” thinking and who have caring, friendly natures. Because we operate almost around the clock (including holidays), Customer Service Agents work unusual hours and are on their feet eight hours a day. Yet, almost all of these Employees will tell you how much they LUV their jobs.”
Colleen Barrett President and Chief Operating Officer
Wanted: Customer Service Agent
1. Submit a resume. 2. Attend a Group Information/Screening
Session. 3. Attend a one-on-one interview & complete
an application.4. Background check.5. Drug screening. 6. Job offer - Start date determined - Training
scheduled.
"Coat of Arms"
Applicants fill out and read aloud a questionnaire in which applicants complete statements such as:
• One time my sense of humor helped me was…..• A time I reached my peak performance was…….• My personal motto is……
“Fallout Shelter”
Applicants are told to imagine they are a committee charged with rebuilding civilization after a just-declared nuclear war.
They're given a list of 15 people from different occupations: nurse, teacher, all-sport athlete, biochemist, pop singer. They have 10 minutes to make a unanimous decision about which 7 can remain in the only available fallout shelter.
“Fallout Shelter”
The answers don’t matter....
The test is about the interaction...
As the candidates debate, evaluators watch from across the room and grade each person on a scale from "passive" to "active" to "leader."
Southwest’s reputation for service and “Fun Place to Work”
• More than 34,000 total Employees
• Southwest received 202,357 resumes and hired 908 new Employees in 2003
• Hires about .5% of applicants – that is they hire 4.4 per 1000 applicants.
Support Business Strategy
Become a SWA Customer Service Agent?
• All SWA Employees and their family members have FREE UNLIMITED travel anywhere Southwest Airlines flies!
• As a SWA Employee you will receive Profit Sharing . . . and Southwest Airlines has had 31 consecutive years of profit!
• FABULOUS Medical, Dental and Vision plans for all Employees! Dollar for dollar match in 401K - up to 7.3%!
• Casual uniform environment, which means you can wear tennis shoes!
• The Southwest Airlines University offers Career Development classes!
• Chili Cookoffs, Holiday Celebrations, Deck Parties, Golf Tournaments and more for all SWA Employees and their family members.
Entry Level Jobs at SWA
Customer Service AgentsFirst Year $9.00/hrSecond Year $10.00/hr
Flight Attendants 1st 6 Months $14.67/Trip* 2nd 6 Months $14.90/Trip* 2nd Year $17.34/Trip* *one trip = 243 miles
Results
• 31 consecutive profitable years.• Southwest has ranked number one in fewest
Customer complaints for the last 13 consecutive years as published in the DoT’s Air Travel Consumer Report.
• Among all industries in 2003, FORTUNE has listed Southwest Airlines as number two among America’s Top Ten most admired corporations.
• According to the April 2003 issue of FORTUNE, Southwest is an employer of choice among college students.
Southwest’s HRM Practices
• Employment Security• Selectivity in Recruiting• Incentive pay• Employee Ownership• Information Sharing• Participation &
Ownership• Self-Managed Teams• Training & Development
• Cross-Utilization & Cross-Training
• Symbolic Egalitarianism• Wage Compression• Promotion From Within• Taking the Long View• Measurement of
Practice• Overall Philosophy
Staffing, Strategy and Performance
Value at Southwest Airlines is:1. Created through satisfaction of employee
needs.2. Converted to customer and share holder
value via organizational capabilities (the design of specific operating processes).
3. Captured by SWA as competitive advantage through lower costs and superior service (productivity) in relation to its competitors.
Staffing and Strategy Performance requires HR practices that:
Match the business strategy Are internally consistent Fit with organizational values and beliefs
HR Alignment
Planning and Job Design
Compensation
EmployeeRelations
Recruiting and Selection
Training and Development
Performance Management
INTERNAL FIT
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