UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

12. Write a proposal for conducting a training program for a group of middle-aged
graduates so as to make them form a more cohesive team.
13. What are the steps towards self-development that renders an employee in a
continuous state of preparedness to face the complexities of employment in recent
times?
14. Identify the viable alternatives for unplanned downsizing in an organization.
15. “Factors promoting Change as well as Constancy are inherent in the personnel
development activities such as training, empowerment, career planning, delegation
and employee mobility” – Comment.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
1. Affirmative Action: The concentrated efforts to recruit, select, and promote
members of marginalized minority groups hitherto under-represented in the
workforce.
2. Avoidance Learning: Learning that occurs when individuals change behavior to
avoid or escape unpleasant circumstances, as witnessed after termination or
suspension of various employees.
3. Career: The sequence of a person’s work-related activities and associated
attitudes, values and aspirations over the span of one’s life that forms a coherent
pattern.
4. Career Development: A formal, organized, planned effort by organizations to
achieve a balance between individual career needs and organizational workforce
requirements.
5. Career Management: A planned attempt to optimize the rewards and
satisfactions a person receives from the investments made by him or her into one’s
career.
6. Decentralization: An organizational arrangement whereby the authority to make
important decisions about organizational resources and to initiate new projects is
shared with managers at all levels in the hierarchy. It is the opposite of
Centralization.
7. Delegation: Assigning or entrusting tasks to another employee who would be
expected to handle the job on behalf of the former to manage time better, to
enhance the quality of the work output and in order to train people on the job.
8. Development: Learning opportunities designed to help employees grow, which
need not be limited to improving employees’ performance on current jobs.