...organisational objectives through inspiring, engaging and leading a team of staff to embrace and demonstrate the above values. (Nanverkis, Baird, Coffey, & Shields, 2014) Suggest that human resources should review an organisations strategic direction before selecting recruits. All positions should be reviewed and aligned with the corporate strategy to ensure corporate goals are achieved. Human resource management is one of the most essential departments of an organisations success. The overall goal of this management team is to make sure that the organisations relations with their employees are satisfied. This includes attracting, developing and maintaining a quality workforce and developing performance objectives (Schermerhorn, et al., 2014). The human resource department is investigating one of the current regional manager’s performances. Reports have indicated that the regional manager is underperforming. Underperforming employee’s need to be addressed and handled by the organisation. Detailing several issues will help realign the employee with the organisations goals. The issues being addressed will actively engage and offer recommendations in assisting the regional store manager to effectively perform to the organisations standards. This will consist of the organisations best practice and which features will actively engage in the employees’ performance management. Applying the organization's human resource development (HRD) functions and how they will integrate with the organization's...
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...Please fill the form in CAPITAL letters Paste Your Passport Size Colour Photo here 2. All items need to be filled completely. In case an item is not applicable to you, write NA in that column. Full Name Date of Birth Mr. / d Ms. dmm y y y y M/ Sex : F Nationality : Correspondence Address City : State : Country : ZIP CODE Country : ZIP CODE Mobile No.(including ISD/STD code) email: Permanent Address City : State : Mobile No.(including ISD/STD code) email: Languages Known (Underline native language) UNDERSTAND 1. 2. 3. 4. READ WRITE Family Information (Including brothers and sisters if any) NAME RELATION QUALIFICATION DESIGNATION ORGANISATION 1. FATHER 2. MOTHER 3. 4. 5. Educational Qualifications BOARD / DEGREE / DIPLOMA SCHOOL / COLLEGE PERIOD ATTENDED SUBJECT/ DISCIPLINE GRADE / % FROM : (mm/yy) SCHOOL : 10th TO : (mm/yy) FROM : (mm/yy) SCHOOL : 10+2 TO : (mm/yy) FROM : (mm/yy) GRADUATION TO : (mm/yy) Full Time Part Time FROM : (mm/yy) POST GRADUATION TO : (mm/yy) Full Time Part Time English Language Proficiency Not Taken TOEFL IELTS Date of Test Score Passport Details I have a passport Yet to apply Employment History Total Work Experience Years Months Name of the Last Org : Address of Org : Designation : Period - From : Last Salary Drawn (CTC) Per Annum : ...
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...TABLES OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. VARIOUS ISSUES IN STRATEGIC TRAINING MANGEMENT 3 2.1. Development of training programmes 3 2.2. Role of HR specialist in ensuring the link between the organizations’ overall business strategies and training. 4 2.3. The influence of performance management, affirmative action, talent management on strategic training management 2.4. Robert Bosch (pty) Ltd. 2.4.1. Development of training programmes 5 6 6 2.4.2. Role of HR specialist in ensuring the link between the organizations’ overall business strategies and training. 7 2.4.3. The influence of performance management, affirmative action, talent management on strategic training management 2.5. Socomigh 2.5.1. Development of training programmes 8 9 9 2.5.2. Role of HR specialist in ensuring the link between the organizations’ overall business strategies and training. 11 1 2.5.3. The influence of performance management, affirmative action, talent management on strategic training management 3. CONCLUSION 11 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 1. INTRODUCTION According to MSG (2015), Training and development is vital part of the human resource development.. It is also become more important globally in order to prepare workers for new jobs. In the current write up, we will focus more on the emerging need of training and development, its implications upon individuals and the employers. Employment development is very important...
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...ASSET MANGEMENT: A FRAME WORK FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR Objective of presentation This Framework has been designed to assist people who manage agencies and other authorities to adopt best practices for asset management. These processes may vary to accommodate individual circumstances, but in each instance the objective is to achieve the best use of our assets for the benefit of all the stakeholders. What are Assets? The assets may be natural resources, building structures, land, plant and equipment, heritage and cultural assets, or any other form of infrastructure. It includes physical resources, like roads, telecommunication networks, schools, hospitals and road networks. Financial information and human resources, including intellectual property, are not included in this essay. What is Asset management? “Asset Management is a process of guiding the initiation, acquisition, use and maintenance, and disposal of assets, to make the most of their service delivery potential and manage the related risks and costs over the full life of the assets.” KC Leong, 2004, The Essence of Asset Management. A second definition reads thus: Asset management is the process of creating value within the owner’s objectives through acquisition, use and disposal of assets. Gordon MacNair, 2010. In the second definition the owners objectives is an essential ingredient of the Asset management hence getting it right involves the activation of the organisations strategic objectives. Asset Management...
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... des processus et d’un outil de planification de la demande a un impact direct sur le service client et la performance opérationnelle de l’entreprise : • Mieux anticiper la demande, • Fiabiliser la construction des plans et sécuriser leur exécution, • Faire preuve de souplesse et de flexibilité par rapport aux aléas de la demande, • Optimiser les niveaux de stock, • Réduire les coûts industriels et logistiques. Mais au sein d’une organisation mondiale multi marchés et multi-‐sites de production, d’autres enjeux viennent s’ajouter : • L’évolution rapide de la demande rendant le dimensionnement des moyens industriels toujours plus complexe, • La multiplication des flux croisés entre usines et marchés du fait de sa présence mondiale : développement des pays émergents et stagnation des marchés matures, • Des...
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...have to take into consideration a number of aspects of the business i.e. competition, customers, location. In this assignment I am aiming to formulate a report to show the process of starting a new business and to look at different areas of an existing organisation. I am focusing on a bricks and mortar business. A business plan is usually drafted by start-up businesses a range of information can be found in this document. Task 1 1.1: Discuss a range of decisions to be taken * What source of finance to use to start the business * How to find suppliers * The location * What strategies to put in place to deal with the competition Finance There are different sources of finance available for starting up a new business. The organisation needs to know the range of sources of finance and how it will affect the business in the long and short term. Sources of Finance could be Internal or external. Information on sources of external finances are available in different forms e.g. if it’s a bank loan information can be found on the banks website, leaflets or from a bank personnel. Information includes rates of interest to be paid on bank loan over what period of time. Suppliers The relationship between an organisation and its supplier is very important, as suppliers ensure both the price and quality of the product you sell. The supplier’s price dictates how much you sell your product for and the amount of profit you make. Information on suppliers can be found at trade...
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...Chartered Secretaries Malaysia ICSA International Qualifying Scheme (ICSA IQS) STUDY MANUAL STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ICSA IQS – Strategic and Operations Management Version 2 Updated June 2006 i Contents Contents Syllabus Part I Chapter 1 The nature of strategy. Strategic choice, analysis and evaluation: the balanced scorecard And the strategic balance sheet. Strategic alliance analytical techniques: Portfolio analysis, competitor analysis, value chain analysis, market migration analysis. The boardroom strategic role Mission, ethics and values. Social responsibility The Corporate Environment and System Theory the market, and other PEST factors. Internal Factors The distinction between strategy and policy. Planning: short, medium and long term. Targets, resource planning techniques, including scenario planning. Strategy: effective corporate performance: Strategic options for direction, change and growth. Policy making and implementation. Supply chain management and logistics. The virtual organization Creative and rational modes in strategic management: applications and limitations. The rational cycle: corporate needs, decision making, implementation, monitoring, review and feedback. Measurement of corporate performance, concepts of output and outcome. Contingency management and agile strategies. The management of change: growth, stability and contractions Business Process Re-engineering 1 Page v Chapter 2 22 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter...
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...Hugo's aim was to create a consortium of academic and private organisations with each having a strong motivation to succeed. He held strong veiw's about mangement processes and organisational structures. He believed that company’s should not employee more than 500 people at a time and that decision making should be democratic and also involve employees from all aspects of the team. The Riversimple company designs energy-efficient automobiles, including the Morgan LIFEcar and the Riversimple Urban Car. (hybarn). The name LIFECar was coined by the team at OSCar Automotive Ltd. The name LIFECar summarises key design principles advocated by RiverSimple. LIFECar stands for Lightweight Integrated Fuel `Efficient Car. Hugo Spowers (founder of OSCar Automotive Ltd and Managing Partner at RiverSimple LLP), sought to demonstrate with the LIFECar project that significant gains in fuel efficiency could be achieved with readily available technology. In order for this project to take place, and with the initial and far-sighted support of the Morgan Motor Company, he formed the LIFECar consortium of Cranfield University, Linde, Oxford University and QinetiQ; together they received support from BERR, formerly the DTI, to part fund the project. Key elements of the design (as the name suggest) include the lightweight structure and the integrated whole system design of the vehicle around the characteristics of a fuel cell. LIFECar combines a hydrogen fuel cell with...
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...‘E-commerce’ is simply Electronic commerce. E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium. Below are three models of Electronic commerce; • Business-to-Business(B2B) – In this type electronic commerce, the trade is only between businesses or other organisations. An example of B2B is Cisco. Cisco is a corporation that designs, manufactures and sells networking equipment,. Cisco trades with other businesses and organisations. • Business-to-Consumer(B2C) – This type of electronic commerce involves a business and an individula shopper. Businesses sell goods and products to individual shoppers(Consumer). An example of B2C is Amazon. Amazon is a E-commerce company that deals with online retailing. Sells to consumers. • Consumer-to-Consumer(C2C) – In this model electronic commerce, the trade off is done between consumers directly. An example of C2C is e-bay. E-bay is an E-commerce corporations that enables C2C (b) Internet The Internet is a ‘Network’consisiting of a worlwide interconnection of computer networks that facilitate data transmission and exchange. As organisations grow larger, communcation becomes complex. The internet makes it more efficient o communicate by providing a tool called ‘e-mail’. Electronic mail is a tool that allows a user to type a message on a computer connected to a network and transfer it to another networke computer. Intranet Intranet is a collection of private...
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...Masters Programmes ------------------------------------------------- Assignment Cover Sheet Question: [Analyze a strategic issue facing Samsung Electronics Company] “This is to certify that the work I am submitting is my own. All external references and sources are clearly acknowledged and identified within the contents. I am aware of the University of Warwick regulation concerning plagiarism and collusion. No substantial part(s) of the work submitted here has also been submitted by me in other assessments for accredited courses of study, and I acknowledge that if this has been done an appropriate reduction in the mark I might otherwise have received will be made.” Introduction Samsung Electronics Company (SEC), Ltd founded in 1969 is a South Korean multinational electronics company and is the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue. Since the introduction of monochrome television sets in 1971, it has grown on average 38 percent a year, broadening its product range from simple consumer electronics and home appliances to advanced information and communication equipment, computers and peripherals and semiconductors (Renee, 2007) . It is currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile and smart phones, LCD Panels and televisions and displaced Apple Inc. as the largest technology company in 2011 (Renee, 2007). Industry boundary Samsung electronics has the following divisions * Consumer electronics (CE)...
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...power within the organisation to individual decision makers further down the line. Team working is a key part of the empowerment process and team members are encouraged to make decisions for themselves. Examples of employee participation include: i. quality circles or project groups in which employees work on projects where considerable responsibility is delegated to the team. You often see this in industrial manufacturing companies for assembling products ie. cars. ii. Suggestion system - where employees are given channels to provide suggestions or new ideas to managers within the organisation. iii. Team meetings or town halls where employees are encouraged to share ideas freely without retribution from management. iv. Delegation of responsibility within the organisation. In modern organisations the entry level employees need to be given considerable responsibility because they are often the face of the company. Their direct contact with customers on a day-to-day basis is where many customers form their image and opinion of a company. Furthermore, these employees feedback are often critical to refining or abolishing processes with respect to corporate strategy based on their personal observations at the front line. v. Multi-channel decision making processes. In such situations decisions are not only made in a downward direction, they also result from communications upwards, sideways, and in many other directions within the organisation. One of the...
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...corporate risks. Do current corporate risk practices prove wrong the established academic theories? Large Corporation such as Lehman Brothers, Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland and many organisations had fallen to receivership all across the world showing the evident of the necessity of risk management strategy and a business continuity strategy. Some multi national organisations had also been exposed to risks such as Sony with unidentified battery issue before release of product in 2006, Dell supply chain problem in 2007, fiasco caused by software failure in 2008 to British Airways etc. This is because they had failed to take into account risks that could be created by people, resources and occurrence that is outside the normal business practises. Risk management is now an essential element of organisation’s strategy by putting in place a process to handle risk in priority of the likelihood of occurrence. The managerial decisions necessary for smooth running of organisation cannot be taken without element of risk. As a cornerstone of business practice the question management need to be aware of is their approach to risk and how it can be managed. ISO 3000 define risk management as “the fundamental process in successfully dealing with uncertainty rather than traditional burden on organisation by making it an essential part of organisation’s process”. [pic] Standard Risk Assessment Process Flow Business continuity is the minimisation of foreseen potential business...
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...Assignment 2 Information Security for Managers Submitted By: Student Number: Submitted Date: January 22, 2009 Table of Contents 1. Information Security Policy (Word Count = approx. 1000) 3 1.1 Security: 3 1.2 Policy: 3 1.3 Information Security Policy and its importance: 4 1.4 Policies, Procedures, Practices, Guidelines 5 1.5 Example of good policy statement 6 1.6 Possible structure of information security policy documents 7 1.7 Strategies and techniques to implement information security policies 8 2. Developing the Security Program(Word Count = approx. 500) 9 3. Security Management Models and Practices (Word Count = approx. 500) 11 A. ISO/IEC Model 11 B. NIST Security Model 11 C. RFC 2196 11 D. COBIT 11 E. COSO 12 4. List of References: 13 1. Information Security Policy 1.1 Security: Security has been a real issue for this century. Due to the new emerging technology like RFID and wireless devices there have been various issues regarding privacy and security of person and an enterprise. Security can be understood as a condition to protect against unauthorized access. In terms of IT, security can be categorized into application security, computing security, data security, information security, and network security. Source: (Whitman & Mattord 2007, p.5) Even though all of these security fields need to be monitored in an enterprise, for instance in this document we are concerned only with information security. Information...
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...MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – SEMESTER 2 MB0046-MARKETING MANAGEMENT Q.1) “Planning is a process of designing the Blueprint for the future”. In this context, explain Marketing Planning in detail. Ans.) Planning is a process of designing the Blueprint for the future because marketing planning is making decisions about what target markets to go after, what objectives to meet, and what programs will achieve those objectives. A good marketing plan is pragmatic, action oriented and specific. To support above statement, we need to explain marketing planning in the following ways: MEANING OF MARKETING PLANNING Marketing planning is deciding what marketing actions to undertake, ehy they are necessary, when and where they will be accomplished, who will be responsible for accomplishing them, and how they will be carried out. Marketing planning consists of an interrelated sequence of analytic and decision making activities. Marketing planning is the process of making a coordinated set of decisions that constitute a marketing strategy for one or more target markets. MARKETING PLANNING PROCESS 1. SITUATION ASSESSMENT: The first step in the marketing planning process is situation assessment. This includes evaluating opportunities and threats in the product-markets of interest to the firm and determining the firm’s strengths and weakness. 2. TARGET MARKET STRATEGY: Step 2 in the planning process provides important guidelines for setting objectives, for formulating...
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...APPENDIX A: ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET (SAMPLE) ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET | Surname | NGUBO | First Name/s | JABULISILE HAPPINESS | Student Number | 501854 | Subject | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 1A | Assignment Number | 01 | Tutor’s Name | THEMBA MKHIZE | Examination Venue | DURBAN | Date Submitted | 02 APRIL 2015 | Submission (√) | First Submission | √ | .resubmission | | Postal Address | 17 Queen street | | Pietermaritzburg | | | | | | | 3201 | E-Mail | Jabulisile.ngubo@durban.gov.za | Contact Numbers | 031 – 322 4600 (Work) | | N/A (Home) | | 071 386 1358 (Cell) | Course/Intake | BCom ITM Year One Jan 2015 | Declaration: I hereby declare that the assignment submitted is an original piece of work produced by myself. | Signature: J.H Ngubo | Date: 02-04-2015 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section A Question 1 1.1 – 1.10 (Multiple choice) ------------------------------------------------------ page 2 Question 2 2.1 – 2.10 (True or False) --------------------------------------------------------- page 3 Section B Question 4 4.1- 4.2 (Discuss and Identify) -------------------------------------------------- page 4-6 Question 5 5.1-5.2 (Discuss and Identify) --------------------------------------------------...
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