...In a large employing mostly highly organization educated professionals is another perspective on management theory and practice was also emerging. Generally referred to as classical organization theory, this perspective is concerned with structuring organizations effectively. Whereas scientific management studied how individual workers could be made more efficient, classical organization theory focused on how a large number of workers and managers could be most effectively organized into an overall structure. The basic premises underlying the human relations movement are that people respond primarily to their social environment, that motivation depends more on social needs than on economic needs, and that satisfied employees work harder than unsatisfied employees (COMPANY, 2006). In a large organization that employs highly educated professionals, it is important for the organization to fulfil the self-actualization needs of the professionals. Managers using Maslow’s hierarchy to motivate employees do things to satisfy employee’s needs, but the theory also says that once a need is substantially satisfied, an individual is no longer motivated to satisfy that need. Besides that, the ways to fulfil their self-actualization needs is a person’s needs for growth, achieving one’s potential and self – fulfilment. A person’s need to become what he or she is capable is becoming. It known as high order needs. The behavioural theory of management holds that all people...
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...INCIDENT 1: HR after a Disaster 1. Which external environment factor(s) did Hurricane Rita affect? Discuss. Certainly the primary external environment factor was unanticipated events. Hurricane Rita could not have been foreseen although disaster planning could overcome many of the problems. Several external environmental factors resulted from the hurricane. The labor market experienced considerable change. Remember that restaurants were having difficulty in hiring experienced workers and many of the servers had to be trained. Some customers were having difficulty in receiving supplies from producers in the area. Technology was affected as cell phone towers had been destroyed in the area and it was difficult to communicate. To complicate the situation, land lines were also down. The economy took an initial beating from the storm, but the ultimate economic stimulus produced powerful results that continue today. 2. How were the human resource functions affected by Hurricane Rita? Virtually every area of HR was affected when Hurricane Rita struck. Businesses were desperately trying to staff their business. Compensation systems had to be significantly altered. There were many untrained workers so the training function continued. Safety issues were everywhere. 3. Do you believe that the HR situation described regarding Hurricane Rita would be typical in a disaster? Explain. Certainly there can be some degree of planning for a disaster. But it is unlikely that...
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...of human infrastructure. The vulnerability of human infrastructure to destruction (risk) by a disaster is also an important factor in understanding natural hazards. The distribution and impact of natural hazards is unequal with greatest loss of life and property in the developing part of the world. This is not because of greater hazard frequency but simply because of greater vulnerability. Therefore, the people in the developing countries are at high risk than those of developed countries. Combining the risk factor the natural hazard can be defined as the probability of a change in the natural environment of a given magnitude occurring within specified time period in a given area while the associated risk is the consequent damage or loss of life, property and services. The frequency of major hazard appears to have increased since 1960 and the number of people killed each year has decreased at a rate of about 6% and the loss or property has also decreased steadily. This has taken place owing to increased awareness and better hazard management. The increase in the frequency of hazard can be assigned to such factors as better global news coverage, increasing population, increasing urbanization and increasing natural degradation. Natural hazards are now being considered as of global importance and global efforts are being made to mitigate them. Major Hydrological & Atmospheric disaster in Bangladesh over 200 years The geographical location, land characteristics, multiplicity...
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...DREAMZ TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC. Charleston, S.C. Operations Contingency Plan Torey A. Shannon Dreamz Security Plan I. Overview 2.1 Objectives The operative objectives of this security plan is to provide employees with a safe and secure work environment that implements efficient security controls that protect the confidentiality of employees’ and clients information while employing efficient protocol to thwart and/or counteract potential security threats. To protect employees and clients from threats from unauthorized personnel and foreign agents, physical and technical security will be strategically placed within the organization through employee policy and technical support. Dreamz Incorporated will create security education, training, and awareness programs to further safeguard against potential threats and minimize loss from security intrusions. 2.2 Strategic Corporate Officers CEO - Raymond Williams (PH) 678-873-9087, (Email)Rwilliams@dreamz.org CIO - MarciaCamos (PH) 678-873-9088, (Email)Mcamos@dreamz.org CISO - James Korve (PH) 678-873-9089, (Email)Jkorve@dreamz.org 2.3 Information Security Governance Assignments CEO * Oversee Corporate Security policy * Brief board, customers, and public on corporate activities and policies. CIO, CISO * Set security policy, procedures, programs and training for the organization. * Respond to security breaches and coordinate independent audits. * Implement...
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...longest-lasting impact of Hurricane Katrina was its environmental damage that, in real terms, has mainly to do with public health. Significant amounts of industrial waste and raw sewage spilled directly into New Orleans neighborhoods. And oil spills from offshore rigs, coastal refineries, and even corner gas stations have also made their way into residential areas and business districts throughout the region. 2. How were the human resource functions affected by hurricane Rita? The role of the HR department is to provide the right person at the right place at the right time, after Hurricane Rita the business became worse and there were a shortage in the employment so large and small businesses were frantically trying to find workers so they could start again. That why they had to employ untrained workers who might command a premium salary. 3. Do you believe the HR situations described regarding Hurricane Rita would be typical in a disaster? Explain. Yes. HR situation in this case will be a disaster , that because they even bussed in employee from other cities each morning and returned them at night because there were not enough workers available in the local area so they did not care if these people have qualification and skills or not, they just wanted to fill the...
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...should an organization use the media as an effective as part of a business continuity communications strategy? o Provide an example of how a company might utilize the media during a crisis. There are many pros and cons of using social media in business, including the concern about what to do if things go wrong. [Many businesses today, however, are integrating social media into their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans and activities. Read on to learn more about this evolving trend. The use of social media as a business continuity tool is a trend on the upswing. (Item #1) HR professionals, should update their business continuity plans to include social media. (Item #2) Today's consensus is that it is now a "smart practice" to include SM in BCP and COOP programs. (Item #3) Twitter allows users to quickly and efficiently interact with one another 140 characters at a time through what is called a "tweet." (Item #4) There's a wrong and right way to handle a social media disaster. (Item #5) Two women in Missouri got on Facebook and helped after the Joplin tornado. (Item #6) As always, we look forward to hearing your comments & insights regarding business continuity. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, email me at bmellinger@attainium.net. Bob Mellinger, President Attainium Corp 1. Social media can transform enterprise business continuity management Three-quarters of organizations will use social media as part of their business continuity management (BCM)...
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...knowledge skills information, online employee user interface, and a central location for updating and maintaining employee personal and professional information. Improving the current HRIS activities would be advantageous to Riordan leadership and their employees. Hugh McMCauley, the COO for Riordan Manufacturing requested that the human resources (HR) system be analyzed to integrate the existing variety of tools in use in the present day to a single integrated application. The request will take advantage of a more sophisticated look for information systems technology in the HR department at Riordan Manufacturing. After the project is to be completed, Riordan Manufacturing will then be left with a detailed project plan that will provide a list of tasks, resources, schedule and budget required for the project plan. The plan is for all of this to take place in a six month time span so that the new system can operate in the second quarter of the next year. The stakeholders in project consist of different departments of the company. In order to understand the stakeholders, the various departments that will benefit directly from the new HR system are listed below: • Insurance and...
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...HR Question A 1. Employer branding was discussed at the beginning chapters. On a scale of 1 (Poor) to 5 (Great), how valuable are the following brands? Why do you rate them low or high? a. Bank of America Employer Branding - 4 1. One of the largest, most reliable bank in US 2. Very dedicated user base and allow more modern methods to customers 3. Brand value for during the economic crisis b. McDonald’s Employer Branding - 4 1. Consistent imagery, targets the customer beautifully 2. Is very profitable, employs lot of people from diverse backgrounds c. BP Global Employer Branding - 4 3. Had good branding previous oil spill in the gulf 4. Has consistently improved their image by public awareness and environment friendly messages d. Walmart Employer Branding - 4 5. One of the most valuable brand in the US 6. Has great outreach programs, n huge profitable 7. Beautifully organizes awareness campaign and advertisements 8. People from lines around the block on their events indicating good faith from the customer 2. The Trends & Innovations in the textbook entitled “Mobile HR; Is the Cloud the Limit?” paints a much different picture of how HR work was done in the past. Do you believe that Mobile HR is truly the trend of the future? What might be the pros and cons of this trend? 3. Corporate culture is discussed throughout your text as having a significant impact on HR tasks...
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...REPORT ON EUROTOWN DISASTER Introduction On the 14 Oct 11 the Municipalities Emergency Preparedness Group was in meeting. At 1000 hrs it was reported that there was a major electrical failure affected the greater part of Eurotown. No initial assumptions were made but the respective service agencies were contacted. At 1200 hrs the situation deteriorated with a serious fires starting in a factory units in Bromley Hill. A Major Incident was declared at 1205 hrs and the ‘Eurotown Emergency Plan’ was activated in accordance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. The following actions were undertaken: * Traffic Management plan implemented. * Emergency media plan implemented (and throughout all stages of the incident). * Multi-agency action plan implemented (mutual aid response). * Communication and co-ordination with ‘Tactical Coordination Group. * Impact of power outages on critical infrastructure. * Vulnerable groups such as schools and care homes were contacted. At 1330 hrs the fire had spread to adjacent properties which housed an LPG storage tank and 10 tonnes of chlorine. The risk of explosion and the release of a toxic plume were considered severe and priority was given to evacuating residential and business properties within 500 metres of the site around the LPG storage facility and evacuation of the personnel calculated to be effected by the plume. It was agreed that evacuation of both these groups should be co-ordinated and given equal priority...
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...functions of HRM relate and contribute to its Objectives? Ques. 2 Define Job Analysis. Explain any four methods of collecting Job analysis data. Ques. 3 Discuss the four phases of a HR planning process. Which of the four phases, in your opinion, is the most critical phase in determining the success or failure of HR planning? Ques. 4 Define Global HRM. How is it different from domestic HRM? Give examples. Section-B Case Study About a year ago, Pedro’s Printing was looking for a new managing editor of a specialty line of magazines. The previous editor retired after 25 years on the job. The editors and the HRM department debated about the key requirements for a new managing editor. Some felt it was knowledge of the business, others thought it was interpersonal skills to get along with the staff. A few others believed it was the ability to attract writing talent and subscribers. Finally, it was decided that HRM would screen candidates and the editors would interview finalists with HRM, but that the HRM director would make the final choice to avoid competition among the editors. Advertisements were placed nationally. A number of candidates were tested and interviewed by the HR manager, and references were checked. After a long search, a new managing editor was hired and he was a disaster. Though he was completely competent as an editor and fit well into the company’s culture, he tended to run roughshod over his staff, driving a couple of talented, up-and-coming editors...
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...Scope The scope of this plan is limited to • Implementation • Monitoring • Adjustment 2. Plan Implementation After spending many weeks or months developing a Business Continuity Plan, the time will come to actually implement it. The first step will be to get signoff from the different team leaders for their respective sections of the plan. Then the plan can be presented to senior management for final approval. After final approval, the following steps need to occur: 1) Distribute the plan to all team members who will have a role to play during an actual disaster. 2) Pre-position any supplies, hardware, software, generators and other items identified in the plan required for recovery. 3) Finalize and sign contract for renting manufacturing floor space at a facility located 60 miles inland, to be used in case of a disaster to the existing plant. 4) Finalize and sign contract for cold storage in case of damage to cold storage at existing plant. 5) Sign contract with existing carrier to increase bandwidth at training facility, also located 60 miles inland. This facility will become the recovery site in the event of a disaster. 6) Pre-position servers and related network equipment at training facility. During normal operations, this facility is a Microsoft Academy run by the company on behalf of its employees and the surrounding community. During a disaster, this location will be the administrative and IT recovery site. 7) Update plant equipment inventory, IT inventory...
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...involve the identification, selection, implementation, testing and updating of processes and specific actions necessary to prudently protect criticial busin precesses from the effects of major system and network disruptions and to ensure the timely restoration of business ops if significant disruptions occur BCP and DRP BIA stands for Business Impact Analysis MTD stands for Maximum Tolerable Downtime first step in building BC program Project initiation and management activites of project initiation and mgmt 1) obtain senior mgmt support 2) define a project scope, the objectives, to be achieved and planning assumptions 3) estimate the project resources needed (human and financial) 4) Define a timeline and major deliverables Senior leadership's two major goals 1) Grow the business 2) Protect the brand What are the risk to a corporation for not having BC/DRP? 1) Financial 2) Reputational 3) Regulatory Formula for calculating financial risk P * M = C P: Probability of harm M: Magnitude of harm C: Cost of prevention Prudent man rule exercise the same care in managing the company affairs as in managing one's own affairs 1. Which of the following is considered the most important component of the enterprisewide continuity planning program? c. Executive management support 2. During the threat analysis phase of the continuity planning methodology, which of the following threats should be addressed? a. Physical security b. Environmental security c. Information security ...
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...with last year. Nearly 40% of the new employments were provided by the leisure and hospitality industry last month. The reasons behind the high recruiting rate may be new open restaurants, hiring after employee reduction during the recession, and new health-care law. The new health-care law will launched in 2015 and it requires companies to offer affordable insurance to their employees who works 30 hours or more per week, if their full-time equivalent employees is above 50. Therefore, some restaurants reduce start to replace their full-time workers to part-time workers. That's the reason that the need of part-time employees is increasing. When I first read this article, I thought the increasing in job release represent a better economic environment. However, the explanation in this article indicates that there's a possibility that the increase is because job market shift from full-time to part-time. The reason for this shifting is because of the new care law. Medical service in U.S. is very expensive, I think this law might be helpful to part-time workers but impacts some small business. Furthermore, if companies start to replace full-timer with part-timers, it will change structure of employment and hurt U.S. economic fundamentally. 2. How strong HR policies can prevent PR disasters (Erin Dostal, Jul 16, 2013) The journal lists some companies suffered from the irresponsible behavior their employees have done. It indicates that because of the booming of technology and social...
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...(Introduction) 200 Assessment 2 – Case Study Analysis and Essay INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this essay is to identify and describe four human resource issues faced by the companies affected by the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. As a human resource consultant working for the New Zealand government, four human resource solutions will also be discussed and suggested in order to assist these companies with the problems faced after the earthquake. The key issues brought about by the earthquake are; the shrinking talent pool for staff and the senior management, a fall in demand, a decrease in the morale of both staff and management and the temporary chance of Christchurch’s population to fall. It is important to address these issues because they affect the operations of the companies in a very negative way. These issues can be dealt with by using solutions which have been utilized in other countries which have faced natural disasters, as well as creating new ideas for future problems caused by such disasters. The issues and propositions will be discussed in further detail. Even though there is a low chance of such an event occurring in New Zealand again, they still leave companies not well prepared for the consequences of such an experience (FM Global, 2009). HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES: The very first issue Christchurch faced was the shrinking talent pool of both their staff and senior management within their companies. This is due to the fact that people...
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...fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. That was when the name was changed to "Riordan Manufacturing, Inc." In 1993, another manufacturing plant in Albany, GA was acquired to produce plastic beverage containers. And in 2000, Riordan opened a new manufacturing facility in China. Their entire fan manufacturing operation moved from Michigan to China to leave the Pontiac, Michigan facility to retool for the manufacturing of custom plastic parts. Request and Scope On November 28, 2011, Hugh McCauley, COO, of Riordan Manufacturing wanted to meet to discuss and analyze Riordan’s HR system and integrate the existing variety of tools in use today into a single integrated application for all locations. Hugh McCauley wants to take advantage of a more sophisticated, state-of-the art, information systems technology in Riordan Manufacturing’s Human Resources department. The scope of the proposed HR system is to upgrade Riordan’s...
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