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Bases of Power Having power and using power are two different things. For example, imagine a manager who has the power to reward or punish employees. When the manager makes a request, he or she will probably be obeyed even though the manager does not actually...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 3 - HRM- Managing Groups and Teams

Brief History of Leadership  There are a few different varieties of King Arthur’s story, one of the most prominent folklore stories from England. Most versions tell either of how Arthur became king when the Lady of the Lake gave him a sword called Excalibur...

Early Trait Approach  From the turn of the century until the 1940s, most leadership studies focused on the personality traits of individuals that made them leaders and not followers. Thomas Carlyle set the stage for the great man theory, and other researchers...

Traditional Leadership Styles Leadership style is a leader’s approach to providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. In 1939, psychologist Kurt Lewin and a team of researchers determined that there were three basic leadership styles: Autho...

We’ve used the word “leader” and we’ve used the word “manager.” You may think they’re interchangeable, but they aren’t. They are different. Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, was the first to write about the differences between lead...

Leadership Roles Leaders are leaders because they’re asked to face new challenges and take on new roles all the time. The most successful of them are able to adjust and put their leadership skills to work in these new atmospheres. Let’s take a look at some of...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 4 - HRM- Leadership

Power brings a special need for ethics, because the circumstances of power make it easy for misuse to occur. As we have seen, a company president wields at least three sources of power: legitimate from the position they hold, coercive from the ability to fire ...

As you might expect, organizations use a variety of measurement approaches—that is, how they go about setting and managing goals and objectives. If you have an understanding of how the use of these approaches has evolved, starting with management by objectives...

Equal opportunity is one of our nation’s core values and should be a core company policy. In this section, we’ll summarize employment discrimination legislation and highlight interpretation and enforcement changes The Law and Discrimination A SHRM article ...

The Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) The CHRA became effective in March 1978. It proclaims that “all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their n...

Harassment and discrimination among faculty and researchers in Canada's postsecondary institutions Harassment and discrimination can exist across all Canadian workplaces, occurring in any type of occupation and setting, including postsecondary institutions. T...

The Black Lives Matter movement and the call for a ‘new’ police In the Spring of 2020, while the pandemic raged on, people from around the world rallied around a common cause: Black Lives Matter. This social movement has focused on a quest for liber...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 6 - HRM- Legal Side

Business Strategy and Workforce Planning What is Workforce Planning? The role of human resource management is to ensure that an organization has the talent—the right combination of skills, knowledge, aptitude and attitude—to achieve its strategic goals. The ...

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These early scientific and humanistic approaches to managing people gave way to more studies on how to achieve more productivity, efficiency and profit. Those theories and findings became the basis for further learning. Systems View The systems view of manag...

Why Assess Your Current Human Resources? Assessing current human resources involves developing a profile of the workforce that includes staff levels, demographics, and competencies (aka KSA or knowledge, skills, and abilities). CalHR recommends developing a...