Author Question: ________ involves formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the ... (Read 56 times)

Lobcity · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

________ involves formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic aims.

A) Employee engagement
B) Data analytics
C) Strategic human resource management
D) Sustainability

Question 2

On-demand workers are a developing part of the workforce. In a brief essay, explain what on-demand workers are and how they impact organizations.

What will be an ideal response?

aham8f · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Today, in more and more companies like Uber, Elance, and Airbnb, employees aren't employees at all. They are what are called on-demand workers, or freelancers and independent contractors who work when they can on what they want to work on when the company needs them. So, for example, Airbnb can run, in essence, a vast lodging company with only a fraction of the regular employees Hilton Worldwide or another hotel chain would need, as the lodgings are managed by the homeowners themselves. Other sites tapping on-demand workers include Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Elance-oDesk, TaskRabbit, and Handybook (which lets users tap Handy's thousands of freelance cleaners and furniture assemblers when they need jobs done). These short-term professionals can be viewed as mobile, independent bundles of skills. Employers' increasing reliance on such Uber-like extended workforces has implications for HR. Companies that rely on freelancers, consultants, and other such nontraditional employees will need to create personnel policies on matters like compensation for these nonemployees and become more expert as talent brokers in matching specific workers with specific tasks that need to be done.