...HR OUTSOURCING HR outsourcing is the process of sub-contracting human resources functions to an external supplier. Different HR functions that can be outsourced: One can outsource various HR functions depending upon the expertise required. Recruitment is unarguably the most common functions outsourced. However, it is functions like payroll, leave tracking, record keeping, etc. Recruitment: Outsourcing recruiting makes a lot of sense. The organization will always have the final say in the selection of the candidate, but the screening of resumes, and initial selections can be completely outsourced. Then there are also entrepreneurs who believe that recruitment should never be outsourced to an external party as they cannot fully understand the culture of your organization and will fully understand your requirements. Administration: This includes maintenance of employee master payrolls, tracking of leaves, any kind of employee redressal and grievances, entry and exit process, paying provident fund and life insurance, and so on. These are people- and effort-intensive activities that can be mastered over a period of time. This is the reason why it makes sense to outsource it to a service provider. Strategy: This includes setting up a performance management system, building an employee handbook, and undertaking activities that offer value addition for employees. A number of strategic drivers for outsourcing HR services are: 1. Reduced cost 2. Increased efficiency ...
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...HR Plan-08s The HR Planning Process I. HR Forecasting: Meaning II. Forecasting Activity Categories III. HR Forecasting Time Horizons IV. Determining Net HR Requirements I. HR Forecasting: Meaning HR forecasting constitutes the heart of the HR planning process. It can be defined as ascertaining the net requirement for personnel by determining the demand for and supply of human resources now and in the future. After determining the demand for and supply of workers, the organization's HR staff develop specific programs to reconcile the differences between the requirement for labour in various employment categories and its availability, both internally and in the organization's environment. Programs in such areas as training and development, career planning, recruitment and selection, managerial appraisal, and so on are all stimulated by means of the HR forecasting process. II. Forecasting Activity Categories Forecasting activity can be subdivided into three categories: • transaction-based forecasting, • event-based forecasting, and • process-based forecasting. # Transaction-based forecasting analyses focus on tracking internal change instituted by the organization's managers. # Event-based forecasting is concerned with change in the external environment. # Process-based forecasting is not focused on a specific internal organizational event but on the flow or sequencing of several work activities (e.g., the warehousing shipping process)...
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...1. Labour or Industrial Relations. The term labour relations, also known as industrial relations, refers to the system in which employers, workers and their representatives and, directly or indirectly, the government interact to set the ground rules for the governance of work relationships. It also describes a field of study dedicated to examining such relationships. The field is an outgrowth of the industrial revolution, whose excesses led to the emergence of trade unions to represent workers and to the development of collective labour relations. A labour or industrial relations system reflects the interaction between the main actors in it: the state, the employer (or employers or an employers’ association), trade unions and employees (who may participate or not in unions and other bodies affording workers’ representation). The phrases “labour relations” and “industrial relations” are also used in connection with various forms of workers’ participation; they can also encompass individual employment relationships between an employer and a worker under a written or implied contract of employment, although these are usually referred to as “employment relations”. There is considerable variation in the use of the terms, partly reflecting the evolving nature of the field over time and place. There is general agreement, however, that the field embraces collective bargaining, various forms of workers’ participation (such as works councils and joint health and safety committees) and mechanisms...
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...The action includes in Human Resource Management (HRM) is important to all managers in the organization. The primary reason is because HRM is a vital piece of every manager’s job as it concerned on every type of how individuals are employed and managed in the organizations. In addition, HRM consists of the process of recruitment and selection of employee, giving proper training and the developing skills, arranging proper orientation and induction, motivating, assessment of employee in terms of appraising performance, providing compensation and benefits, maintaining and retaining relations with the workers, managing wages and salaries, building employee commitment, maintaining employee health and safety and giving them an equal employment opportunity....
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...Legal, safety and regulatory requirements on HR process Name Course Instructor Institution Date Safety, legal and regulatory matters have an enormous effect on the human resource because common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigations. In the society today, litigation seems to be an increasing greatly and administrators try to create human resource processes that avoid any possible litigation on them and their organizations (Dimond, 2010). I completely agree with the statement “common sense and compassion in the work place has been replaced with litigation.” The number of employee who are attempting to sue or are suing an organization has increased, the reasons why employees are doing this is out of revenge and not for valid reasons. When the economy begins to spiral downwards, there is always a significant increase in litigations in the workplace. The United States is continually making aware of the reduction in the occupations available. Most people have been left unemployed due to the current recession. There is a number of employees who have been laid off from their recent jobs that they expected to have retained. Finding a job security can be hard and most employees fear their financial security. Employees who fail to land another job often choose to sue their recent employer. With an increase in the number of employees who are attempting or suing the organization that they previously worked for, administrators are adjusting the ways...
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...2 | techwizard | 1,312,368 | 3 | makebigmoney | 1,141,686 | 4 | beaters123 | 895,405 | 5 | donothing | 588,054 | 6 | mas001 | 472,296 | Exhibit 1 : OVERALL TEAM STANDING Decisions Made A summary of the rationale behind the key decisions made would perhaps best explain the results we achieved. . Decision 1 Day | Parameter | Value | 54 | station 1 machine count | 2 | When the exercise started, we decided that when the lead time hit 1 day, we would buy one station 1 machine based on our analysis that station 1 takes the longest time which is 0.221 hrs simulation time per batch. (Exhibit 2: Average time per batch of each station). As day 7 and day 8 have 0 job arrivals, we used day 1-6 figures to calculate the average time for each station to process 1 batch of job arrivals. Base on the average time taken to process 1 batch of job arrivals, we were able to figure out how many batches each machine can handle. day | number of jobs arriving each day | utilization of station 1, averaged over each day | utilization of station 2, averaged over each day | utilization of station 3, averaged over each day | 1 | 2 | 0.433 | 0.079 | 0.019 | 2 | 2 | 0.272 | 0.158 | 0.108 | 3 | 1 | 0.398 | 0.106 | 0.165 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.052 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0.33 | 0.079 | 0.06 | 6...
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...the overall health of a company. A step by step program will aid a manager from the very beginning to the end of the process. The program could take a manager step by step from the beginning, the manager deciding that an employee or group of employees need to be terminated or laid off. To starting the process, form deciding why the employee or group needs to be let go, filling out the proper paper work, filing the paper work correctly, calling the individuals in and informing them that they are being terminated or let go with proper communication, aiding that employee in what is going to happen next (if applicable) and finally the after care for the employees that were left behind. The program will take a manager through every possible scenario to ensure they can feel confident that they followed the correct steps and maintained a high level of professionalism. These programs are vital to a business because they will enable managers know how to, “be informed about and comply with legislation, treat the employee fairly and act in good faith, handle the termination process in a professional way that preserves the employee's dignity, be careful about how much information is communicated to others about the facts and reasons for the termination” ("Employment Termination," n.d, p. 1). Reference: Keeping the Right People. (n.d). Retrieved from http://hrcouncil.ca/hr-toolkit/keeping-people...
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...UNDERSTANDING THREADS Simply put, a thread is a program's path of execution. Most programs written today run as a single thread, causing problems when multiple events or actions need to occur at the same time. Let's say, for example, a program is not capable of drawing pictures while reading keystrokes. The program must give its full attention to the keyboard input lacking the ability to handle more than one event at a time. The ideal solution to this problem is the seamless execution of two or more sections of a program at the same time. Threads allow us to do this. A process is essentially a "heavy" unit of multitasking: as an approximation, think of it as an "application" (though it can include 'background' or 'system' processes such as your battery monitor, mouse and keyboard server, PDA synchronization tool etc). A thread, on the other hand, is a more "lightweight" unit. Threads are can be seen essentially sub processes. Informally, we can think of them as tasks that belong to a program and that can run "simultaneously". For them to run simultaneously, each of these two tasks will run in a separate thread. Depending on the number of CPUs available and the number of competing threads, some of those threads actually will run in parallel on different CPUs, whilst in other cases the illusion of simultaneous execution will be achieved by "juggling" threads in and out of the available CPUs. A part of the OS called the thread scheduler takes care of deciding...
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...Who is the creater of CP/M? [Kildall] Who is the head of the Multics project. [Carbato] Which OS’s process scheduler reduces priority and increases quantum. [CTSS] Which one is the difference between a semaphore and monitor. [Last choice] If a system has 16 drives and each process can have 4 drives. What is the maximum number of n that the system is deadlock free. [5] Given the sequence below which processes will cause a page fault. (for FIFO – LRU) Write a loop that would create 10 child processes. (No more than 10). If a file is shared by two processes, can have read-only and the other read-write access. If yes how, if not what prevent it. What are some of the security features in UNIX or NT. How does NTFS directory system work. How does UNIX directory system work. Pick a Unix UNIX process scheduler and explain how (not why or when) it favors I/O bound processes to CPU bound processes. Explain and compare I/O software (programmed, interrupt, DMA). What is the problem with RAID4 and explain how RAID5 solves the problem. Disk arm scheduling algorithms readuce read time but what does Linux additionally do. How does Workingset Clock algorithm work. If seektime is 8msec and each track is 160KB. What is the access time to read 4KB. Couffman listed four requirements for a deadlock. Describe fourth one and how to prevent it. What are the advantages of inverted page tables. What is a soft link. Implement soft link and hard links...
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...Fall 2011 COMP 3511 Homework Assignment #1 Solution Handout Date: Sept. 22, 2011 Due Date: Oct. 6, 2011 Name: ______________ ID: ___________________ E-Mail: _____________ COMP 3511 L __ Please read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions: You should finish the homework assignment individually. There are a total of 4 questions. When you write your answers, please try to be precise and concise. Fill in your name, student ID, email and Section number at the top of each page. Submissions without this information will be discarded. Please fill in your answers in the space provided, or you can type your answers in a Word file. Homework Collection: the hardcopy is required and the homework is collected at the collection box (#6, #7) or in class. (22 points) Please answer the following question in 2-3 sentences 1) (8 points) What is the benefit of Direct Memory Access (DMA)? Is interrupt still needed when a DMA is used? Can DMA operations possibly interfere with CPU operations? 1. Answer: This frees up the CPU during I/O operation, so the CPU can be better used; Or to improve the CPU utilization (3 points). Interrupt is still needed when the DMA operation is completed in order to inform the CPU (2 points). If a DMA and CPU access memory at the same time, it can interfere with each other (3 points). 2) (4 points) Why is it necessary to separate user mode and kernel mode? Answer: This provides some level of protection so that user programs...
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...Chapter 2 OPERATING SYSTEM CONCEPTS SYS-ED/ Computer Education Techniques, Inc. Solaris System Administration: Introduction Operating System Concepts Objectives You will learn: • Operating system components. • Solaris usage of processes. • File management and file systems. • Use of the Solaris Management Console. SYS-ED/COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (Solaris – System Admin: Intro - 6.5) Ch 2: Page i Solaris System Administration: Introduction 1 Operating System Concepts Operating System: Definition An operating system is the set of programs that controls a computer. The core of the operating system is the kernel. The kernel is a control program that functions in privileged state that allows all hardware instructions to be executed. It reacts to interrupts from external devices and to service requests and traps from processes. The kernel creates and terminates processes and responds to requests for service. Operating systems are resource managers. The main resource is computer hardware in the form of processors, storage, input/output devices, communication devices, and data. Operating system functions include: • Implementing the user interface. • Sharing hardware among users. • Allowing users to share data among themselves. • Preventing users from interfering with one another. • Scheduling resources among users. • Facilitating input/output. • Recovering from errors...
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...Chris and Pat Smith, and Martin and Miller decided it was best to have a termination contact set in place to secure all partakers in their final decisions. They noted it was best for all to have precise, clear explanations all of all essential fundamentals for the termination of their business partnership. An acknowledgement of the effective termination date would need to be set, and all potential risks, if any, should be stated for all parties. The owners and the chefs would meet for a period of 30 minutes and try to dissolve their partnership. The owners and the chefs blame each other for the failure of At Your Service; however, all partakers should act as responsible, mature adults during the meeting. It would speed up the termination process; especially if all partakers can...
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...Case Study Tresa Jellison HCS/483 November 12, 2012 Dr. Kaderie Case Study The basic IT implementation process is the whole process of setting up and running an IT based program for a company. It starts from the beginning to the end of the process and throughout the whole process even after the last step has been taken. You have the planning stage, and this will include what exactly what you are looking for and what you want the program to do and how it will operate. Who will be using this program and who will it be beneficial to. You will have to go and get bids or quotes from companies that can provide this type of service. Depending on what is being implemented you have to do weeks, months and even years of research to ensure that the program will benefit everyone involved and that time and money is not being wasted. A lot of the things that were done are this analysis did not follow the fundamentals of implementation. During the execution of the program there where many bugs that had to be fixed that could have been prevented if the right questions and queries where ran before going live. There should have been a trial or practice run before the whole system went live. And they should have not done it at all of the sites. Only a couple of the sites should have had the program and should have been using it to get the bugs out. There were way off budget and there were a lot of hidden details that should have been reported. At least this way there would have...
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...Labs Lab 4.1: Using Linux Command-Line Basics What is the purpose? This lab demonstrates how to redirect data from a process and how to identify and kill a process. What are the steps? • Task 1: Redirecting and piping standard output Procedure 1. Obtain a list of files from the home directory, including the hidden files. Redirect the output to a file named Listing by using the ls -a > listing command. 2. Obtain a long list of files, including the hidden files, and append the output to the same file. 3. Use the cat listing | less command to view the file and pipe the output to less. 4. Use the cat command to view the file again. However, this time, pipe the output to lpr to print the file. 5. Redirect the output of ls to the special file /dev/null. What happens? It’s redirected to dev/null Why? It’s null. • Task 2: Putting tasks in the background and terminating the job Procedure 1. Use the tail –f command to view your listing file from the previous task. The –f option tells tail to follow changes; therefore, the file will continue to run this command until you cancel the command by pressing Ctrl+C. Put the file in the background using the tail -f listing & command. You may need to press Enter again to view the command prompt. 2. Put the process in the background and display the prompt again. Run the top command in the foreground. This will provide you a list of your top 20 processes by CPU usage. Put this list in the background and stop it by pressing...
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...are compared. Process Management, File Management, Memory Management, and Security are going to be compared between Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac operating systems. Every operating system is different and is interesting to see how every piece of software has the same outcome but has different procedures in between. Process management is defined as how the OS manages multiple programs running at the same time. A thread is a feature of an OS that enables parallel processing within a single process. UNIX, Windows, and Mach are all multitasking systems that support both processes and threads. They can be compared in several respects with regard to the process management features. When executing a program on UNIX, the system creates an environment for that program. In this setting there is everything needed to execute that program. The OS tracks processes though a five digit number Recognized as the Process ID. Each process has its own unique PID. PID’s ultimately repeat because all the probable numbers are used, and the next PID repeats the system again. At any time, no two Processes with the same PID occur in the system, because it is the PID that UNIX uses to track its processes. Each UNIX process has two ID numbers. The PID or process ID, and PPID or Parent process ID. Each user process in the system has a PPID. Normally, when a child process is killed, the parent process is told by a SIGCHLD signal. Then the parent can do another task, or restart a new process as needed. When...
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