...department can no longer be viewed as an appendage of the firm but as a vital organ ensuring organizational success as it aims to provide the organization with a sense of direction and a feeling of purpose. Moreoever, the need to remain competitive means that firms should deploy strategies that make effective use of their resources. SHRM seeks maximal untilizaion of human capital and enables managers and employees to develop and employ strategies to meet organizational goals. For instance, if the training needs of the employees are simply met with perfunctory trainings on omnibus topics, the firm stands to lose not only from the time that the employees spend in training but also a loss of direction. Hence, the organization that takes its HRM policies seriously will ensure that training is based on focused and topical methods. Rapid...
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...All organizations have people -- they have human resources. Regardless of the size of an organization or the extent of its resources, the organization survives -- and thrives -- because of the capabilities and performance of its people. The Human Resource Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, including Affirmative Action to Employee and labor relations. All HRM functions work together to build a strong company where key among them is responsibility for human resources -- for deciding what staffing needs fits the company’s future. According to Youssef (2012) “The HR department is here to support you and ensure that the company's human assets are selected, deployed, and managed efficiently, effectively, and fairly. But you are ultimately their direct manager.” (P. 12) We will look at the some different aspects of the HRM department and why they are so important. Companies and organizations are much like the human body where all parts work together to make a cohesive person. And, if the HRM department is operating properly then there are certain functions that they must operate in to help balance all the different aspects of a successful company. One cannot say that one of these functions are more important than the next. If a company did not offer Compensation and Benefits they would experience low employee morale which would affect profits. And, if they did not have planning and recruitment it would have high turnover and could face all sorts of...
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...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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...to Leeds Metropolitan University Word Count:2989 Contents Contents Contents 2 Introduction 3 Diversity 4 Diversity in the Workplace 4 Emergence of Diversity 5 Legislation and Problems they Solve 6 Emergence of Managing Diversity 7 HRM 8 Relationship with Managing Diversity 9 HRM in the UK vs. USA 10 Reasons Supporting HRM 11 Critical Arguments Posed to HRM 11 Recommendations 11 Conclusion 11 References 11 Introduction In this report I will be investigating managing diversity and taking a look at how it has developed and how it has had an impact on everything in life. I will mainly focus on how this has had an effect in the workplace and look at key arguments that support diversity and look at arguments against diversity in the workplace and why this may be considered a negative or a hindrance and most importantly I will look at how successful this has been at helping companies maximise their assets and key areas that I have identified that need to be improved. In the second part of my report I will examine the close links of managing diversity and human resource management (HRM). I will look at factors that support it and arguments that need to be considered when looking at HRM. Diversity Diversity in people can be described as the subtle differences between each human and varied characteristic’s that make people who they are. These characteristics can range from colour of skin to sexual orientation to how much hair you have...
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...issues that still need urgent attention — among these, development of infrastructure, control over corruption and bureaucratic red tape, opening-up of key sectors for foreign investments, political and legal reforms, enhancing employable skills in new graduates, control over increasing poverty, internal and external security, and divestments in the public sector, etc. In addition, issues related to the management of human resources have become crucial for India’s sustained economic growth. The liberalization of economic policies calls for a switch from labor intensive to more capital-intensive methods of production, and thus requires organizations to remove surplus labor and generate new sustainable employment systems. In the new economic environment, there are additional challenges relating to the need to increase productivity, reduce costs, improve quality, reduce voluntary and involuntary absenteeism, and cope with the subsequent de-skilling, re-skilling and multi-skilling problems and career development issues. In this...
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...Performance Management Jasmine Sims HRM 500 Human Resource Management Foundations Jo-Rene Queensberry December 3, 2014 Sometimes company have experienced a significant reduction in earnings, resulting in the layoff of a number of retail sales associates due to the economic downturn. On a positive not some business seems to be rebounded, however with every business there is always concerns with performance, but there are always recommend ways to increase sales and customer service. This paper will express how implementing a performance management system may help modify employee behavior and improve results it will also examine performance management issues and processes and the influences on and various approaches to compensation. It is very important to have a job description for retail associates. Job description is very necessary to describe the most significant components necessary for the job both internally and externally (Chandler, 2005). Retail Salesperson Job Responsibilities: Serves customers by helping select products. Retail Salesperson Job Duties: Welcomes customers by greeting them; offering them assistance. Directs customers by escorting them to racks and counters; suggesting items. Advises customers by providing information on products. Helps customer make selections by building customer confidence; offering suggestions and opinions. Documents sale by creating or updating customer profile records. Processes payments by totaling...
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...Cavite State University Carmona Market drive Carmona Cavite Research Paper CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT Submitted by: Gallego Bryan M. BSHRM – 1A Submitted to: Shella Rose Diaz THE HISTORY OF HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT I observed that Travelers throughout the world have always sought hospitable places to rest and eat. Although modern hotels feature conveniences such as televisions, en-suite showers and minibars, they fulfill the same purpose as ancient rooms and boarding houses. The history of hotel and restaurant management goes back many years but has always involved the essential concept of hospitality. The term "hospitality" derives from "hospice," meaning a place of rest for travelers. EUROPE In the Middle Ages, European monasteries and abbeys first opened their doors to offer hospitality to travelers. Over time, business people took over the management of many of these inns. During the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution heralded the opening of hotels in Europe's major cities. The owners of many of these hotels aimed to attract wealthy travelers by building intricate and ornate buildings. Throughout the 20th century, hotels sprang up across Europe in mountain and resort regions. The European hospitality industry is a growing industry and encourages its managers to develop an international approach to hotel and restaurant management. INNS FOR TRAVELERS From the beginning of the enterprising individuals built and developed inns...
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...the manufacturers achieved the optimal workforce size. d. demand for American-made cars would increase and the excess workers could return to their factory jobs. ANS: D OBJ: 1 TOP: Application PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging NAT: AACSB Analytic REF: p. 35 LOC: Strategy 2. ____ refers to organizational use of employees to gain or keep a competitive advantage resulting in greater organizational effectiveness. a. Manpower planning b. Strategic HR management c. HR forecasting d. Operational HR ANS: B OBJ: 1 TOP: Definitional PTS: 1 DIF: Easy NAT: AACSB Reflective Thinking REF: p. 36 LOC: Strategy 3. Which of the following statements is FALSE? a. The organization’s existing employees limit the organization’s choice of strategy. b. Organizations survive and grow by choosing the strategy that will allow them to achieve low costs and innovative products. c. Most competitive strategies depend heavily on the quality of the organization’s human capital. d. Organizations in which the CEO dominates the selection of the organization’s strategy are less successful than organizations in which strategy is developed by a formal committee process. ANS: B OBJ: 1 TOP: Conceptual PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging NAT: AACSB Reflective Thinking REF: p. 35 LOC: Strategy 4. In...
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...management are likely to be involved ● demonstrate how human resource management can make a difference by adding value to an organisation ● outline some of the current issues facing HR managers. HRM? What’s it all about? This book is designed as an introductory text for students studying human resource management (HRM) either with a view to becoming HR specialists themselves, or for those who are starting or hoping to start a career in management. As you will discover, people management forms a large part of every manager’s job, whether they work in a large multinational organisation, a not for profit organisation or a small charity. Organisations also increasingly aim for all employees to be motivated and involved, so an understanding of the subject is important for everyone. As stated in the preface, we intend that you should become actively involved in your own learning as you progress through the book. Even though you are just beginning this subject, you may already have ideas about some of the topics that you are about to study and you may even have a general idea of the role and functions of the human resource management or personnel department in an organisation. Your ideas may not all be right but, after all, that is why you are studying the subject. Many students talk of studying HRM because they would ‘like to work with people,’ and they seem to think of human resource management as a cosy job that involves being nice to people at all times. While this view is...
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...Management IIBM INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ( IIBM - B102 ) www.iibmindia.in www.iibmonline.com Author: VSP Rao Copyright © 2010, VSP Rao All Rights Reserved Produced and Printed by EXCEL BOOKS PRIVATE LIMITED A-45, Naraina, Phase-I, New Delhi-110 028 For IIBM Institute of Business Management Meerut - 250002 Distance Learning Education, IIBM Institute of Business Management The ultimate vision of this Institute is to ensure that all working executives and each young manager must possess the requisite research-oriented-business-acumen and the competitive managerial excellence in successfully tackling the new emerging management-related-problems of the country in the changing global scenario. Individuals who look upon education as a continuing activity and wish to enhance their knowledge in an existing discipline or acquire proficiency in a new area are sure to benefit from the offered Programs. Distance Education is an attempt to make education accessible beyond the close confines of a classroom and to make it available to those who aspire and endeavor. The pedagogy used is interactive with cutting-edge techniques and innovation. This has gone long way to strengthen skills and expertise students to meet much-needed requirement of management students; in industry or society. The Institute pioneered and offers more than 40 programs in the field of Management, Computer, Six Sigma and SAP Training certification...
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...PERSONNEL POLICIES WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT UNIONS ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING MEANING OF ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ( H R M ) Definit io n 1 – Inte gr atio n “HRM is a series of integrated decisions that form the employment relationships; their quality contributes to the ability of the organizations and the employees to achieve their objectives.” Definit io n 2 – Influe ncing “HRM is concerned with the people dimensions in management. Since every organization is made up of people, acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating them to higher levels of performance and ensuring that they continue to maintain their commitment to the organization are essential to achieving organizational objectives. This is true, regardless of the type of the organization – government, business, education, health, recreational, or social action.” 2 Definit io n 3 – Applica bil ity “HRM planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance and separation of human resources to the end that individual, organizational and social objectives are accomplished.” MEANING OF HRM: HRM is management function that helps managers to recruit, select, train and develop members for an organization. Obviously HRM is...
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...ScienceDirect Human Resource Management Review j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / h u m r e s Job analysis for a changing workplace Parbudyal Singh ⁎,1 School of Administrative Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making it a critically important management activity in every organization. However, with increasing competition, shorter product life-cycles, rapid technological innovations, and the changing nature of organizational structures, its underlying assumptions are becoming increasingly questionable in today's dynamic work environment. Moreover, the methods used by traditional job analysis are simply not applicable to many new and emerging jobs and some authors feel it may even be an obstacle to organizational success. This has led to calls for a more proactive and strategic approach to job analysis so that the procedures will continue to be relevant. In this article, I emphasize the need for a strategic approach to job analysis, present a strategic job analysis framework, and discuss implications for organizations. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Strategic job analysis Job analysis Changing workplace Competency modelling 1. Introduction Job analysis may be viewed as the hub of virtually all human resource management activities necessary for the successful...
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... T his subject/course is designed to teach the basic principles of Human Resource Management (HRM) to diverse audience/students, including those who are studying this as a supporting subject for their bachelor degree program. This course is designed to provide you the foundations of HRM whether you intend to work in HRM or not, most of these elements will affect you at some point in your career. Either you will be working with some organizations or having people working for you, in both cases you will be dealing with people. To be understandable and lively means that we need to communicate you. We start every chapter with learning objectives. The most important thing you will get out of this course are the basic skills required to succeed in today’s environment which are, you must be able to communicate, think creatively, plan effectively and deal with people. Copyright © Virtual University of Pakistan 1 Human Resource Management (MGT501) INTRODUCTION TO HRM After studying this chapter, students should be able to understand the following: Describe HRM? Explain why are we concerned about HRM? Discuss Road-map of HRM VU Lesson 1 LESSON OVERVIEW This chapter introduces the students with the basic concepts of the human resource management (HRM). During the lecture, we will be discussing the three main things, i.e. the introduction to HRM, the importance of HRM, and a brief discussion of the Resource topics that will follow today’s lecture. A basic concept of...
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... T his subject/course is designed to teach the basic principles of Human Resource Management (HRM) to diverse audience/students, including those who are studying this as a supporting subject for their bachelor degree program. This course is designed to provide you the foundations of HRM whether you intend to work in HRM or not, most of these elements will affect you at some point in your career. Either you will be working with some organizations or having people working for you, in both cases you will be dealing with people. To be understandable and lively means that we need to communicate you. We start every chapter with learning objectives. The most important thing you will get out of this course are the basic skills required to succeed in today’s environment which are, you must be able to communicate, think creatively, plan effectively and deal with people. Copyright © Virtual University of Pakistan 1 Human Resource Management (MGT501) INTRODUCTION TO HRM After studying this chapter, students should be able to understand the following: Describe HRM? Explain why are we concerned about HRM? Discuss Road-map of HRM VU Lesson 1 LESSON OVERVIEW This chapter introduces the students with the basic concepts of the human resource management (HRM). During the lecture, we will be discussing the three main things, i.e. the introduction to HRM, the importance of HRM, and a brief discussion of the Resource topics that will follow today’s lecture. A basic concept of...
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