... Executive Summary “Greening” is a growing requirement for our Government clients and increasingly important for our brand and to attract talent. We are likely to face challenges selling our clients on environmentally responsible practices if we are not ourselves forward-looking. This study specifically focused on improving Booz Allen’s waste management and recycling programs as part of its broader focus on corporate social responsibility. Interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in the office services and facilities teams to learn about existing “greening” efforts. Interviews were also conducted with employees to understand the perception of Booz Allen’s “greening” activities. This report concludes that Booz Allen is doing a lot already in the way of “greening” its waste management practices. The problem is that no one knows about it. Communications and training are the biggest challenges that Booz Allen must overcome. Near-term recommendations to address these challenges include: * Implementing a communications strategy for the “greening” campaign; and * Focusing on immediate “quick wins” to increase visibility of the effort. In the long-term, Booz Allen should develop and publish a sustainability plan, and develop a “Greening” tactical plan to achieve the targets set in the multi-year strategy. Introduction Energy and environment are critical growth markets for Booz Allen Hamilton moving forward, and we have been developing a “greening”...
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...needs of employees and implementing management agendas, thus serving as the voice of the employee and the voice of management while acting as a liaison for both parties (Guest & Woodrow, 2012). From managing strategic human resources to implementing processes for transformation and change to managing HR infrastructure and employee contribution, the role of an HR manager is truly multifaceted. There are times when the lines between the role of HR managers and the role of supervising managers. However, there are certain tasks that should only be carried out by HR personnel. Turnover incurs financial costs, disrupts operations, negatively impact workplace morale, and decrease productivity, customer satisfaction and quality (Hom, Mitchell, Lee & Griffeth, 2012). To identify the steps to take in reducing turnover rates employers must first understand why turnover is occurring. Determining why employees leave is an essential part of a firm’s strategic planning. Exit interviews should be conducted to identify problem areas that may be negatively affecting staff morale and may also help to identify areas of strengths (Christie, 2014). However, Heneman, Judge & Kammeyer-Mueller (2012), such proceedings need to be conducted by a neutral party experienced and skilled to gently inquest the full truth when ties of severed with employees. Exit interviews are therefore the responsibility of HR professionals or external consultants. While the decision to conduct exit interviews for voluntary resignations...
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...Assignment 1 Interview Stephanie Braxton is the person I interviewed. She is currently a Human Resource Manager for a company called Ocwen Financial. She has been in this position for about 3years. The purpose of this position is to maintain and enhance the organizations human resource by planning, implementing and evaluating employee relations and human resource policies, programs and practices. Some of her duties are: maintain the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions, maintains organization staff by establishing a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program; counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews; recommending changes, maintains human resource staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results, maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures. Some changes that she said have occurred in the organization is the way training of new employees take place. Stephanie stated that the training is now more hands on rather than just sitting in a classroom setting for the entire period of the training. There is still some classroom training, but the last few weeks is more hands on. She stated that the company is working on new ways on how to be more innovative with keeping payroll, and recruitment of new employees. Since implementing the new training program, the company...
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...[pic] A B E R D E E N B U S I N E S S S C H O O L Course Work Submission Form |Name: |Vigneshwaran Palanisamy | |Email: |1118562@rgu.ac.uk | |Course: |Msc Purchasing & Supply Chain Management | |Module: |BSM577 - Research Methods | |Assignment and Title: |Implementing E-procurement in Indian organisation : surveys of SMEs | |Date: |7/1/13 | |For the attention of: |Dr Elizabeth Tait | WORD COUNT: ABSTRACT: This report was undertaken for the commitment of future research in dissertation. E-commerce is gaining a lot more attention in current global market. E-commerce models such as B2B, B2C, B2E and B2G has been successful due to many implementation and adoption of standardized process tools like EDI, shipping, tracking, payment and delivery among the suppliers around the globe through a strong supply network. The most vital element of B2B...
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...Processing?” Timberly M Williams Kaplan University GM505 Action Research and Consulting Skills Professor Dr. Barbara-Leigh Tonelli 08/20/2013 Part One of Final Project This paper explains the benefits of a paperless environment within the Department of Veteran Affairs. Here I will research all of the positive and negative benefits on how this process will help eliminate Veterans wait time on benefit approval. Scope and Purpose VBA is responding to the significant expansion in the scope and complexity of its mission. While VA completed a record-breaking 1 million claims per year over the past three years, the number of claims received continues to exceed the number processed and the backlog of claims has grown. In response, VA is implementing a comprehensive Transformation plan—a series of people, process and technology initiatives—to increase productivity and accuracy of disability claims processing. Once the Transformation is fully implemented, VA expects to systematically reduce the backlog and reach its 2015 goal - to eliminate the claims backlog and process all claims within 125 days with 98 percent accuracy. | VBA Compensation Benefits There are currently 3.9 million Veterans receiving disability benefits from VA. In the past four years, VA has added more than 940,000 Veterans to the VA compensation rolls, more than the active duty Army and Navy combined. In fiscal year 2012, VA delivered $54 billion in compensation and pension benefits. (Department of Veteran Affairs)...
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...Organizational Change Plan – Part II Shana S. White Creating Change within Organizations/HCS/587 December 10, 2012 Charles Silveri Organizational Change Plan – Part II According to Managementstudyguide.com (2008-2012), implementing change is “the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and a better performance.” (para. 1). Within an organization, change is implemented in phases. These phases includes the “disbursement of abundant resources to strategy-essential activities, creating strategy-encouraging policies, employing best policies and programs for constant improvement, linking reward structure to accomplishment of results, and making use of strategic leadership” (Managementstudyguide.com, 2008-2012). This means that the process of implementing change within an organization does take a management team who is willing to follow the correct protocol to ensure implementation was successful. There are checkpoints which are designed for checking to make sure the process of change was implemented correctly. So, making sure that mild stones are meet within the implementation process does evaluate the process and ensure that the organization is on the right track so the change can be sustained over an extensive period of time (Cliff Notes, 2012). Methods Used to Monitor Implementation of the Proposed Change Furthermore...
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...Intercultural Management: Change implementation in the context of national culture Prof. Taina Savolainen School of Business, Management and Leadership, University of Joensuu, Finland taina.savolainen@joensuu.fi ABSTRACT This keynote address considers change implementation in the globalizing business environment in the context of culture. Organizations seek ways to cope with new situations in order to survive and be competitive. The primary strategic challenge in multicultural change processes is managing and implementing change successfully. The paper discusses the means of creating readiness for change and challenges they present to intercultural management. Keywords: Change, coping, culture, intercultural, implementation, middle management, readiness 1.0 Introduction Sustaining competitiveness force business organizations to adapt major changes and seek strategies that may be realized in varying, different cultural environments. This presents challenges to multicultural management, in general, and change implementation processes, specifically. Change implementation does no more concern organizational culture only. It is also dependent on understanding different national cultures and having behavioural skills accordingly. Organizations face, thus, constant challenge of change in management (Ascari, Rock & Dutta, 1995). Economic and social forces create a necessity for internal changes in organizations. Globalizing marketplace and fast technological changes force organizations...
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...This research is targeting the population which are citizens eligible to vote, in this case above the age of 18. There are a mix of Qualitative and quantitative research. About 8 focus groups of sizes Between 6-8 will be conducted at the electoral commission. A couple Of depth interviews will be conducted. The profile of these participants Are citizens eligible to vote. They are picked at random. These research Methods provide a rich insight to the research problem. On the other hand, quantitative research is as important as qualitative research. Telephone surveys, mail surveys as well as online surveys are the different surveys methods used. The sample size is very large and intends to have a good representation of the voting public. Random digit dialing and lists of addresses are used as the sampling strategy. The findings of this research intends to answer of internet voting is effective and a good alternative voting method in the sense that it reduces the costs of public elections but at the same time be reliable and credible. The total cost of implementing this proposal is averaging to about AU$ 121785. The study should take no more than 3 months to complete Previous research literature on this issue shows a couple of key findings that are crucial to this research. It is important to know the costs of previous elections. The background paper shows that the previous election cost more than $95 million. There has been no previous trials...
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...Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Name University Of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing is a globally renowned plastic manufacturer, with almost 550 employees all over the world. Currently, they approximately earn $46 million every year. The manufacturing firm is owned by the Riordan Industries that gather a revenue of more than $1 billion. One of the changes that Riordan Manufacturing made in their operations is the incorporation of a Service Request order, SR-rm-04 to aid them in their analysis and maintenance of their HR system. This is one of the ways that shows that the company always hopes for innovations for their Human Resource Information System. With this Service request, the company asked my team to analyze their HR System, and identify different tools that the company can adopt for their Human resource Information system. With that, we will begin this Service request by following the typical Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), the first step is to the analysis stage. Riordan Manufacturing named under its founder Dr. Riordan, a chemistry professor. He started the business by acquiring various patents regarding polymer processing, and turning them into high tensile strength plastic substrates (Riordan Manufacturing, 2010). Company operations officially started in 1991, and a year after, it was officially named Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated. Since then, the company started to grow as the major plastic manufacturer for plastic injection molding (Riordan Manufacturing...
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...HCS/587 September 24, 2012 Dr. Margaret Walker We Need a Change The Autauga-Elmore Mental Retardation Board has decided an electronic medical record system should be purchased and implemented. The board and team feel an electronic medical record would help to bring cohesion between the nurses, case managers, physicians, and families. However, there are barriers to the change and factors that could influence the proposal and implementation of changing to a paperless system. Lewins’ theory of change is the model the agency will be using to implement the change process. However, as the change process takes place, there are methods the organization will use to monitor the change process. An examination if the relationship between the organization’s related processes, systems, and personal or professional roles and their affect on the proposed organizational change will be completed. Furthermore, an identification of communication techniques used to address any implementation issues that may arise will be addressed to ensure a successful organizational change. Monitoring Implementation Once the change has been implemented the organization is moving toward a new direction and employing new practices monitoring of the change and its success must begin. Monitoring the implementation plan of the organizational change will be accomplished with the use of questionnaires, interviews, and observation. Questionnaires are often the first method used for collecting information from...
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...Summary : Robin Speculand, (2009) “Six necessary mind shifts for implementing strategy”, Business Strategy Series, Vol. 10 Iss: 3 pp. 167-172. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17515630910956589 Statement of the problem: Successful Implementation of strategy. Summary of Article: Leaders tend to think that once you designed a strategy it can be performed and succeeded. A strategy should be implemented to make it worth. Thinking differently and doing things differently to get different outcome. When crafting strategy is complete, leaders think that things are now simpler. It is the role of the leader to design strategy and assist in implementation, rather than to delegate it. Many leaders undermine the implementation which will affects negatively on the strategy due to poor execution. When a new strategy is made, people respond in four different ways, which are indifference, resistance, disbelief and support. Three groups concerning responds to new strategy were made; 20 % of the first respondents being saboteurs (resister of new change), 60% Groupies (fence sitters) and lastly Mavericks (those who welcome change). Leaders come up with very good strategies but they may be implemented wrongly, hence they will not be successful. When the strategies are launched, there is no motivation drive to those who are supposed to implement the strategies. At times there is no clear communication to the subordinates who are who should perform the execution...
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...profiling was first introduced to Becton Dickinson, it had been implemented in eight line divisions, two staff functions, the diagnostic sector, and at the corporate level. In several divisions a second profile had also been employed. Most of these profiles were conducted by managers in the company's human resource and strategy function. O In 1992 Ray Gilmartin, CEO of Becton Dickinson (BD), wondered whether SHRM profiling was fulfilling its objective of developing an organization capable of implementing and reformulating strategy. Becton Dickinson undertook an assessment of SHRM in cooperation with Professor Michael Beer and Russell Eisenstat of the Harvard Business School. T The evaluation of SHRM focused on 10 units (eight divisions, the diagnostic sector, and the corporate organization) that had undergone at least one SHRM profile. Conclusions were drawn based on the following sources of information: • The experience of management and profilers with all SHRM profiles. • Interviews with top management and members of the employee task force (ETF) in each unit by a research assistant. CO • Questionnaires administered to the Operating Committee (OC), the ETF, and employees interviewed by the ETF in the 10 units. In all, over 1,000 employees received a questionnaire, and over 500 responded. • An analysis of barriers to strategy implementation identified by the employee task forces in the 10 units studied. • Feedback meetings in several divisions and at corporate headquarters...
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...Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Name University Of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing is a globally renowned plastic manufacturer, with almost 550 employees all over the world. Currently, they approximately earn $46 million every year. The manufacturing firm is owned by the Riordan Industries that gather a revenue of more than $1 billion. One of the changes that Riordan Manufacturing made in their operations is the incorporation of a Service Request order, SR-rm-04 to aid them in their analysis and maintenance of their HR system. This is one of the ways that shows that the company always hopes for innovations for their Human Resource Information System. With this Service request, the company asked my team to analyze their HR System, and identify different tools that the company can adopt for their Human resource Information system. With that, we will begin this Service request by following the typical Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), the first step is to the analysis stage. Riordan Manufacturing named under its founder Dr. Riordan, a chemistry professor. He started the business by acquiring various patents regarding polymer processing, and turning them into high tensile strength plastic substrates (Riordan Manufacturing, 2010). Company operations officially started in 1991, and a year after, it was officially named Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated. Since then, the company started to grow as the major plastic manufacturer for plastic injection...
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...[Introduction - This template is an optional tool to help improve consistency across Evaluation Reports. When using this template, make sure all red text is deleted, and change all other text (headings, titles, body text, etc) to your content. The most important items to remember regarding graphics and formatting: 1. Apply USAID’s identity and branding according to the USAID Graphics Standards 2. Use USAID fonts (Gill Sans or Gill Sans MT (bold for headlines, subheads and highlighted text; regular or light for body text; italic for captions), or Garamond or Ariel if Gill Sans not available. 3. Use USAID colors: • Primary color palette o USAID Blue (RGB 0R 42G 108B) o USAID Red (RGB 194R 17G 58B) o Solid Black (RGB 0R 0G 0B) • Secondary color palette o Dark Gray (RGB 102R 102G 102B) o Light Gray (RGB 221R 221G 221B) o Light Blue (RGB 157R 191G 229B) FRONT COVER - As with all USAID publications, the front cover has the following elements: • Use USAID standard graphic identity/brand. Available for download from http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADB334.pdf • Place the USAID identity in the upper left area in a white field that is one or two horizontal bars in height (the cover should be divided into 9 equal horizontal bars). • If jointly funded and co-branded (with a partner or another donor’s brand), request lower-left placement for USAID’s brand, and all brands/identities should...
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...Importance of Evidence Based Research The importance of evidence based research is, and should, be the driving force on nursing practice to patients. It should go hand in hand with the critical thinking skills that nurses already have and use with regards to care. Evidence Based Research is important because it is an accumulation of information that forms clinical practice. Evidence based research incorporates the patient/family, cost, and safety of care to be delivered. It changes the care from; the way it was always done to the way research proves it should be done, which may still be the way it was always done. The difference is that the now the processes are backed by highly reviewed and researched information that it driven by patient safety, satisfaction, and increased a person’s quality of life, and decreased the medical/financial burden on the patient as well.(Houser, 2012, p. 12) Evidence based practice has come to be the gold standard on clinical care. The use has led to many positive changes on the nursing and the medical profession as a cohesive unit. The...
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