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Theme 2: Making Human Resource Decisions

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What you'll learn

How businesses manage and motivate their people.

Key ideas

  • Organisational structures: hierarchy, span of control and delayering.
  • Recruitment and training methods.
  • Motivation: financial and non-financial; remuneration methods.

Exam tips

  • Link motivation to productivity and retention.
  • Apply structure terms to the business.

Common mistakes

  • Only giving financial motivators.
  • Confusing recruitment with training.
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