Human Resources Management Interventions
Chapter 12 focuses on personnel practices used to integrate people into organizations. These practices include performance management (goal setting, performance appraisal, and reward systems), career planning, and diversity interventions change methods that traditionally have been associated with the personnel function in organizations. In recent years, interest has grown in integrating human resources management with OD. Human resources management interventions are rooted in the disciplines of economics and labor relations and in the applied personnel practices of wages and compensation, employee selection and placement, performance appraisal, and career development. Practitioners in this area typically focus on the people in organizations, believing that organizational effectiveness results from improved practices for integrating employees into organizations. The following change programs are discussed: