...RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS – BA 453 HRM The primary objective of your paper is to do “research” in a specific area of HRM. Such research requires the formation of a “research question” with a narrow focus to facilitate in-depth exploration and often entails a blend of field and literary research. You can elect to do primarily field or literary research. Some suggested topics are below, but you are encouraged to find one which excites your intellect and/or is relevant to your future business career. FIELD RESEARCH – requires contacting a company or companies, identifying their current HR policy issues or HR concerns, selecting only one, developing a list of interview questions based on a brief review of research in that HR area, and then conducting an interview to explore the matter in depth. It is NOT merely a report of the conversational narrative of the interview. It is a thorough critique with recommendation for improvement. 1. Critique a current HR policy or issue in a specific company and make recommendations for improvement. Examples of policies are: recruiting, hiring, orientation, training, succession planning, career planning, team development, performance review, equal employment opportunity, pay incentives, a specific type of employee benefit or perk, corrective/disciplinary action, OSHA compliance, and safety recognition. 2. Describe a current HR strategy in a specific company and how it enhances their competitive advantage in business. Discuss strengths...
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...RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS – BA 453 HRM The primary objective of your paper is to do “research” in a specific area of HRM. Such research requires the formation of a “research question” with a narrow focus to facilitate in-depth exploration and often entails a blend of field and literary research. You can elect to do primarily field or literary research. Some suggested topics are below, but you are encouraged to find one which excites your intellect and/or is relevant to your future business career. FIELD RESEARCH – requires contacting a company or companies, identifying their current HR policy issues or HR concerns, selecting only one, developing a list of interview questions based on a brief review of research in that HR area, and then conducting an interview to explore the matter in depth. It is NOT merely a report of the conversational narrative of the interview. It is a thorough critique with recommendation for improvement. 1. Critique a current HR policy or issue in a specific company and make recommendations for improvement. Examples of policies are: recruiting, hiring, orientation, training, succession planning, career planning, team development, performance review, equal employment opportunity, pay incentives, a specific type of employee benefit or perk, corrective/disciplinary action, OSHA compliance, and safety recognition. 2. Describe a current HR strategy in a specific company and how it enhances their competitive advantage in business. Discuss strengths...
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................ 14 Off-Campus Seminar/Activity Form ................................................ 15 Timesheet ...................................................................................... 16 Work Experience Program Survey ................................................. 17 Sample Cover Letter Format and Guidelines .............................................. 18 Resume Tips . ............................................................................................ 19 Sample Resume ........................................................................................ 21 2 Welcome to the Bakersfield College Work Experience Program The Work Experience course will help you to integrate your college courses and your career...
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...Objectives The objective of this course is to provide the background for the students to become knowledgeable in the components of Microsoft Office. It will also provide them with the knowledge and expertise to fulfill many roles in today’s society, be preparing them in the field of office systems. Course Curriculum Textbook - Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows Vista Edition, 1st Edition ISBN-10: 1423927133 Course Standards This course will be taught to Sunshine State Standards (See Documentation). Course Outline Essential Introduction to Computers Microsoft Windows Vista 1. Introduction to Windows Vista Microsoft Word 2007 1. Creating and Editing a Word Document 2. Creating a Research Paper 3. Creating a Cover Letter and a Resume Web Feature: Creating a Web Page Using Word Microsoft Excel 2007 1. Creating a Worksheet and an Embedded Chart 2. Formulas, Functions, Formatting, and Web Queries 3. What-If Analysis, Charting, and Working with Large Worksheets...
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...CHAPTER 3 SELECTING AND USING ASSESSMENTS Introduction This chapter will address three issues: (a) the institutional assessment needs of workforce development organizations, (b) the assessment needs of individual youth to help make informed choices about their careers, and (c) the practical needs of practitioners for information about how to select and use different assessment tools. At the end of this chapter, Exhibit 3.1 contains information that can be used to help with the selection and use of assessments, including a directory of commonly used published tests. Meeting Institutional Assessment Needs Agencies and organizations in the workforce system use assessments to meet institutional needs in two ways-to determine a youth's eligibility for services and to document achievement of program goals by assessing the progress of program participants. The number of participants served and achievement of program goals can impact the amount of funding an organization receives. Funding for the youth programs considered in this guide may come from the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, other federal agencies, states, local governmental agencies, or a combination of these. Table 1.2 in Chapter 1 summarizes the eligibility and assessment requirements of IDEA, WIA Title I, and the Rehabilitation Act. More specific information on assessments mandated or permitted by several federal funding sources may be found in Appendix A. (Mandated assessments are...
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...The Relationship Between the Research Question, Hypotheses, Specific Aims, and Long-Term Goals of the Project Before you begin writing a grant proposal, take some time to map out your research strategy. A good first step is to formulate a research question. A Research Question is a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied. For example, “What resources are helpful to new and minority drug abuse researchers?” To develop a strong research question from your ideas, you should ask yourself these things: * Do I know the field and its literature well? * What are the important research questions in my field? * What areas need further exploration? * Could my study fill a gap? Lead to greater understanding? * Has a great deal of research already been conducted in this topic area? * Has this study been done before? If so, is there room for improvement? * Is the timing right for this question to be answered? Is it a hot topic, or is it becoming obsolete? * Would funding sources be interested? * If you are proposing a service program, is the target community interested? * Most importantly, will my study have a significant impact on the field? A strong research idea should pass the “so what” test. Think about the potential impact of the research you are proposing. What is the benefit of answering your research question? Who will it help (and how)? If you cannot make a definitive statement about the purpose of your research...
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...the three program components of the National Service Training Program (NSTP) established under Republic Act 9163. CWTS covers programs or activities that will add improvement to the common wellbeing for members of the community or its facilities. It aims to instill among the students: citizenship, volunteerism, and career exploration and development. All students of the University of the Philippines need to complete two semesters of CWTS as a requirement for graduation if the student selected this as his or her choice of NSTP component. The teacher has to inculcate to the students that, being scholars of the country, they have to volunteer their service not only to the people but also to the country. This is to show appreciation for the people’s support for their quality tertiary education. Thus, there is integration of civic and social values in the course. What makes teaching CWTS challenging and exciting is that the teacher incorporates statistics in the volunteer work that the students will do. Hence, the teacher prepares the students to do statistical work needed by the public and makes them aware of the different paths they can take in their respective careers. CWTS in the School of Statistics Each college in the University of the Philippines has a free hand in the implementation of a selected program component of NSTP as long as it follows its program concept. The three program components are Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, Civic Welfare Training Service, and Literacy...
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...challenges : ! demographics (talent shortage, ageing population, changing family patterns, diversity) ! economics (health costs, retirement costs, demand for qualified workers, M&As) ! globalisation (off shoring, uniformisation of labour standards, CSR & NGO, safety & security) ! technology (knowledge management, eLearning, protection of intangible assets) C. Strategic Human Resource Management Analysing work & designing jobs A. Job Analysis ! systematic gathering and organization of information concerning jobs : tasks / duties / responsibility You do this job analysis with : questionnaires, interviews, direct observation, and logs or diaries. The uses of job analysis : legal, recruiting, selection, performance, compensation, training, career dvpt. B. Job description ! document that identifies and defines a job in terms of its tasks, duties, responsibilities, working conditions, specifications. - Identification information : non-discrimination / up-dated / agreed - Job summary - Job duties and responsibilities - Job specifications and qualifications C. Types of employment Standard contract / Flexible contract Florent Malbranche © ! EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL 2010/1011 Human resource management! page 2 / 8 Training & Employee Development Training = process of providing employees with specific skills or knowledge in order to help them to improve their job efficiency and their performance. Development = providing employees with the abilities the organisation will need in the...
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...)Topic of the project: Measuring whether perceived career stagnation in early career may have impact on factors such as employee motivation, job satisfaction and turnover intention. b.)Scope of the project: In this project we plan to analyse whether professionals in the early stages of the career (work-experience less than 5 years) feel early career stagnation and how it impacts factors like their job motivation, turnover intention, etc. The group also identified following parameters which were possibly affected due to career stagnation: a. Motivation b. Job satisfaction c. Turnover Intention Some mediator factors identified by us which can affect the relationship between career stagnation and identified parameters are: 1. Gender 2. Educational Background 3. Age In the common pyramid-shaped organisations majority of the individuals face a point where hierarchical advancements seem unlikely. In such a situation we say that the employee has hit a career plateau or that his career has stagnated. In some situations although the employee has hit a plateau he/she still continues to do his/her job efficiently with no decrease in output. However , for some employees the career plateau may adversely impact job satisfaction, motivation, willingness to stay in the organisation ,etc. It is the latter case also known as the “deadwoods” who need extra attention from the management and our study focuses on analysing the effects of career stagnation on these three variables. In our research...
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...GCSE English Language 2010 Studying Spoken Language The newest and potentially most exciting area of the new GCSE specifications is the Studying Spoken Language section of the Controlled Assessment for GCSE English Language. The focus of this unit is investigative, asking candidates to explore their own spoken language and/or that of others, including perhaps spoken language in media and technologies such as internet messaging services. Sample Controlled Assessment tasks are available online so that you can see the type of tasks that will be set. All of the tasks are fairly open-ended so that you can help individual students tailor their research to suit their interests and the type of data available to them. One of the teachers who has done a trial of the new unit said, ‘the tasks were greeted with enthusiasm and the ability to connect what we were exploring to the wider context. The tasks lead to independent study which meant there was a good deal of ownership for the students.’ 8 Teachers who have trialled the unit have given us some very useful feedback on which we can base further support. One important point is that giving enough time and thought to the initial data collection pays dividends in terms of the level of analysis which students can carry out. The script and commentary on the following pages are examples of the further resources you can see online at http://web.aqa.org.uk/englishLangA These are provided to demonstrate ways...
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...05054500 – Lesson 6 – Writing With Sources ME, A WRITER? Attitude: Describe your attitude toward completing this course. As part of the description, explore how your feelings about being required to take a composition course may affect your performance in accomplishing the course objectives. (1 paragraph, 5 sentences) Inventory: Explain what you learned about yourself as a writer working through the inventory exercise. Discuss two ways you want to improve as a writer and why. (1 paragraph, 5 sentences) REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY 2: PREWRITING Brainstorming: Brainstorm about specific positive and negative effects computers have had on your personal, professional, and academic life. Create a one-page list of your ideas. Thesis: Based on your brainstorming, write a one-sentence working thesis statement that focuses on the impact of computers related to a single area of your life (personal, professional, or academic). The thesis should be one you could develop into an essay of about one page (250-300 words), directed to readers of your local newspaper. Don't draft the essay in your journal, however. You need only your list from brainstorming and your working thesis statement. REQUIRED JOURNAL ENTRY 3: DRAFTING This entry builds on the brainstorming and thesis you developed for Journal Entry 2. Evidence: Identify three different types of evidence you could use to develop your working thesis from Entry 2. Use specific...
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...one must first visit a local recruiting office; there a person may engage in talks with a recruiter, the recruiter’s main job is to help assess the civilian enquires about their military desires, the recruiter must talk to a recruit and his legal guardian or parents as no one under 18 can’t make decisions for themselves without their parents/ guardians permission. The recruiter then will start the process, one of the recruiter’s first assignments is to get the civilian ASVAB scores from their local high school or if the recruit is from out of town they can be retested on the ASVAB. The ASVAB stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test and it accesses a recruit’s probability for enlistment, military job placement and career exploration after the military. ASVAB scoring is based on (IRT) Item Response Theory, this model is used because it measures the examinee’s ability to be placed on the same scale as everyone else and each test is tailored to a specific ability level needed when the examinee picks their military job. The IRT model uses the (3pl) in which measures a examinee’s level of ability to respond to a individual item or characteristics, especially those characteristics that represents difficulty, discrimination (How an item discriminates among examinees, and guessing (the ability that a low ability examinee could get a high score just by guessing). (ASVAB, 2011) ASVAB,...
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...resources. ii) Union expectations – as manifested by leadership members. Restricts and influences firm operations. iii) Economic conditions – changing always. Hiring and payment of employees is itself a reflection of how economic conditions influence companies’ operations. iv) Labour market conditions always changing availability of skilled manpower and expectations of people. Definition Human Resources Management – Is the set of activities that are intended to influence the effectiveness of human resources and organizations. HRM Activities a) Human Resource Planning b) Employment Planning c) Equal opportunity employment d) Job design and analysis e) Recruitment f) Selection g) Career development h) Performance development (management) i) Compensation j) Health and Safety k) Evaluation of Personnel HANDOUT 1 Human Resources Planning - This is a future and Action oriented process and looks at each individual as unique. - It is a process by which management determines how the organization should move from its current (H.R.) position to a new desired position. - HRD integrates internal and external environments and focuses personnel decisions towards human...
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...required for student success. 1.2Develop educational and professional goals. 1.3Recognize the importance of personal responsibility. 1.4Demonstrate the key elements of the writing process. Learning Activities Required Reading Becoming a Master Student, Introduction Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 2 Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 10 Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 11 Reading Week One Electronic Reserve Readings Recommended Video Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) video Video Center for Math Excellence (CME) video Interactive/Tutorial University Library Interactive/Tutorial Financial Options Interactive/Tutorial The Writing Process Audio Audio: Goal Setting and Time Management Exploration Time Management and Goals Website Ethical Lens Inventory Assignments ASSIGNMENT STATUS FRIENDLY NAME TITLE DUE DATE POINTS UNREAD COMMENTS Participation Week One Participation Graded 4.5/4.5 7 Practice/Simulation/Homework/Game Ethical Lens Inventory submission Graded 3/3 Instructor Feedback Great discussion about goals last week. Students often cite procrastination as an obstacle to their productivity in achieving their goals. If you struggle with procrastination, please review pp. 50, 76, and 77 in your textbook Becoming a Master Student and think about implementing a "7-day antiprocrastination plan." Let me know how it works for you.Again, welcome to UOPX and GEN/200! Please let me know if you have any questions or...
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...College Success Course Description: College Success is designed to empower you to be successful through active participation in your education at Clark College. The academic skills and positive mental attitude developed in this course will equip you with the tools for a successful college experience as well as provide tools for successful living. The class will consist mainly of small and large group discussion. There will be some lecture and in class activities to reinforce concepts from the textbook. My belief is that students learn best when they are actively engaged in their own learning; particularly in an environment that is respectful and allows students to feel comfortable participating in discussions. Required Text: Ellis, Dave, (2006) Becoming a Master Student, Twelfth Edition concise The text is a major part of the course and is utilized in every class session. Please bring it to class each time we meet, and be aware that the text is a workbook and the bookstore will not buy it back. Student Learning Objectives for HDEV 117: Students will increase their knowledge and abilities through active learning experiences designed to help them become better college students. Through this process,...
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