...Memo To: CEO From: Sam Hall – Division Manager CC: Date: 12/18/2013 Re: Lead Issues Overview During routine testing of the elementary toy collection, the quality assurance department has identified small traces of lead in a metal whistle contained in the collection. The amount of lead in the whistle is slightly above the legally acceptable limits in the United States for children ages 7 and younger. A large shipment of the collection is scheduled for delivery to schools in South America at the end of the week, just in time for the beginning of the school year. The approximate cost to reproduce and repackage the toy collection is $100,000. This report identify three possible ways to address the situation using a standard decision making process. The report will evaluate several considerations for each possible solution and make an ultimate recommendation. The impact of this decision on customer relationships as well as the role of social responsibility in the decision making process will be discussed. Finally, the report will identify possible actions the company can take to promote ethical decision making, as well as work towards identifying important components of a code of ethics for the company. A1. Decision Alternatives The situation has presented a complex ethical scenario for the company. A variety of problems can potentially arise, depending on how the situation is handled. Significant profits, customer relationships, and moral integrity are at stake...
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...Elle Toys Company Memo To: From: CC: Date: Re: Mat T. Elle, CEO Melissa Weeden, Elementary Division Manager Haus B Row, CFO; Anne Fisher, COO; Eli Price, CIO 12/3/2011 Lead test on elementary whistle. It has come to our attention that during a routine test on the toy collection being prepared for shipment to South Africa, the whistle came back with slightly higher lead levels than the US legally accepted limits. As a major company under the publics’ watchful eye, we have to determine the best route to take and the ethical, legal and financial decisions that the company will encounter. We have three possibilities to consider: 1. Take no action and include the whistles in the toy collection being sent to South Africa, 2. Scrap the whistles made and continue on making new whistles that meet the US standards. 3. Completely scrap the whistles, do not make new ones or include any in the collection. There are many factors to each scenario to consider in the decisions reached. The Choices 1. If Elle Toys Co. decides to take not action and continue to include the whistles in with the toy collections; we need to be ready to back up our decision on a legal, ethical and financial basis. Ethically, the whistles are only slightly higher than the US legally accepted limits for lead in toys for children under the age of 7. We can look further in to South Africa’s legal standards and compare it to the lead levels in these whistles. We can take the ground we are legally following...
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...REPORT The Importance of Ethical Decision Making WGU Toy Company A decision with ethical concerns is significant and comes with greater consequences than ordinary, everyday decisions. Key to ethical decision making throughout the organization is providing a written code of ethics for your business. By having a written code of ethics the importance and value of knowing right from wrong behavior is emphasized. This provides an atmosphere where moral values and principles are a priority. Instead of having employees unsure about making decisions, these written ethical principles deliver guidelines to maintain consistent and appropriate decisions. Having a code sets the tone and drives expectation for its use. It makes it clear that your company wants you to make the ethical choice, and they will support and defend you when you do. Another key to ethical decision making is training. This integrates the ethics code into the workplace. “These should be embedded as part of the culture in the organization” (Abdullah, 2013). Providing employees with tools for critical thinking and good decision making empowers employees from the very start. Training creates recognition for ethical issues and provides guidance for finding and making an ethical choice. It prepares employees for forward thinking to handle unanticipated situations and face new problems. It reinforces the significance of every employee’s responsibility to uphold the company’s principles. It gives the employee a...
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...production error, and on time shipping proceeding as scheduled = this is dishonest and unethical. The difference between right and wrong is obvious to me, personally. * Avoiding bad publicity Disadvantages * Potential to harm a child with increased lead levels * If the client were to find out about this incident after the fact, your company could lose a business deal. Word of mouth also travels fast regarding negative client experiences. This decision is ethically unsound. If one of the children were to get sick after playing with one of the whistles that would be would be tragic and it would have been preventable. The customer providing the toy could be in serious legal trouble and would potentially face lawsuits. 2. Remove the whistle from the collection completely and reduce overall cost of shipment. Advantages of this decision * There is no concern of any children getting sick. * Avoidance of potential legal issues = if...
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...contains 55 tasks. Cash Flow This cash flow report indicates the baseline plan for spending on labor resources. Task Usage This task usage report depicts the number of hours, start times, and finish times for each task (and for each resource assigned to the task). • • • Inventory tasks are front-loaded to have the task complete as soon as possible. Report times are back-loaded to plan the time for the report to be completed and ensure availability of resources. Due to resource leveling with a resource constraint, some tasks are started, then paused, then finished at a later date to ensure that the project is not delayed by a second task to which the resource is assigned. Table 1: Resource Usage for Each Work Package and Task Task Number 1 2 Task Name Computer inventory and requirements Inventory computers in use by new telecommuters Elizabeth Marcel Determine requirements to use current computers Marcel Identify computers for upgrade Marcel Determine requirements for technology Elizabeth Clemencia Report outcomes for inventory and requirements Elizabeth Marcel Clemencia Technical support Determine technical support needed Hugh Jackson Identify staff requirements Hugh Jackson Report technical support needs and staff requirements Hugh Jackson Computing support Identify required computer support relative to inventory Kimberly Lianne Identify staff requirements Hugh Lianne Work 340 hrs 140 hrs 70 hrs 70 hrs 60 hrs 60 hrs 40 hrs 40 hrs 60 hrs 40 hrs 20 hrs 40 hrs 11.43...
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...Project Management Project CMGT/410 Kudler Fine Food Implementation Project Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is a privately owned California-based gourmet food store founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Kudler Fine Foods has three stores in La Jolla, Del Mar, and El Encinitas, California. KFF offers high-end products and markets them in upscale neighborhoods. KFF has expressed an interest in the development of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to improve business administration and integrate stores and business systems. The desired results from a successful implementation of the ERP: devising more informed decision-making strategies, streamlining sales and business processes across the three stores and integration all functional business systems for effective business management. This document serves as a project plan to define necessary information and detail for the development and implementation of the Kudler Fine Foods ERP system in reference to Service Request SR-kf-004. Background and Statement of Need Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store that currently has three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area. The stores stock specialty foods that are both domestic and imported and are also perishable. The owner is in the process of opening two additional stores as well as developing a website that consumers would be able to make purchases and the stores would be able to track inventory and stock as well. In addition...
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...The impact of information technology on the HR function transformation By Yu Long 0123404 Graduation Committee: First supervisor: Dr. T. Bondarouk Course coordinator: Pro. Dr. J. K. Looise Master Thesis, Business Administration HRM University of Twente March, 2009 Preface This master thesis concludes my life as a student, which is performed under the supervision of Twente University in the Netherlands. The research is the terminal of the program Human Resource Management. Doing this research not only improves my skill on literature searching, information analysis, but helps me to gain more profound knowledge about e-HR. During the research, I have got great support from several persons, and now, here is the opportunity to thank them. At first, I give special thanks to Jiajie Li, my boyfriend. He accompanies with me during the whole research period. Besides dealing with my impatient and anxious attitude, he also put great effort on improving my thesis. His optimistic and serious attitude influences me, and makes me continue the research with better and better results every time. His support is very meaningful for my research period. Secondly, I would like to thank Ms. Tanya Bondarouk, and Prof. Jan Kees Looise for their excellent support, feedback and guidance. Both of them give me fruitful advice on how to improve my work. And they always give me timely feedback on my work, which encourages and makes me belief that I can hand in a satisfactory report under the effort...
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...FINAL PROJECT OF Submitted To: PROF. Submitted By: MBA PROFESSIONAL (EVENING) Superior University Lahore TABLE OF CONTENTS | Contents | Page No. | INTRODUCTION OF NISHAT GROUP | 4 | MIAN MUHAMMAD MANSHA (FOUNDER OF NISHAT) | 5 | NISHAT MILLS LIMITED | 6 | HR DEPARTMENT | 7 | RECRUITMENT | 10 | SELECTION | 13 | TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT | 16 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT | 18 | PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL | 19 | COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT | 24 | Conclusion | 25 | Bibliography | 25 | INTRODUCTION Nishat group is grown up from the cotton export and now it became a leading business group of Pakistan with five listed companies, focusing on the four businesses, Textile, cement, Banking, Power Generation. Nishat group is world famous group in the sector of textile, and having a great participation in the export of quality products LISTED COMPANIES:- * Nishat textile mills * D.G. khan cement * MCB Bank limited * Power generation BUSINESS WORTH:- * Annual turnover 17 billion Rupees * 14 Billion from textiles * Earn foreign exchange US $ 236 million * Taxes and Levi of 2,080 million Rupees annually Mian Muhammad Mansha started his career as one of the most prominent industrialist of Pakistan. His textile mill in Faisalabad under the name of Nishat Mills still is one of the biggest textile units in Faisalabad. He formally joined the family business after completing his studies. Mian Mohammad Mansha...
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...producing in one shift? How many if the factory works 2 shifts? Three shifts? How many if it operates three shifts a day, seven days a week? Which operation is the bottleneck? TASK | TIME | NUMBER OF OPERATORS | a.BUDDIES/HR | b.BUDDIES/SHIFT | c.BUDDIES/ "2" SHIFTS | d.BUDDIES/ "3" SHIFTS | e.BUDDIES/ "3" SHIFTS - 7 DAYS | FILLING | 1.5 | 6 | 240 | 1680 | 3360 | 5040 | 35280 | MOULDING | 1.6 | 3 | 225 | 1575 | 3150 | 4725 | 33075 | EYES | 1.2 | 2 | 300 | 2100 | 4200 | 6300 | 44100 | EYE GLASS | 1.2 | 1 | 300 | 2100 | 4200 | 6300 | 44100 | PAINTING | 1.5 | 1 | 240 | 1680 | 3360 | 5040 | 35280 | PACKING | 1.98 | 2 | 363 | 2541 | 5082 | 7623 | 53361 | a. Buddies/hr = 60minutes x Operators time/task b. Buddies/shift = 60minutes x Operators x Productive hrs time/task c. Buddies/ 2 shifts = 60minutes x Operators x Productive hrs x No. Of Shifts time/task d. Buddies/ 3 shifts = 60minutes x Operators x Productive hrs x No. Of Shifts time/task e. Buddies/ 3 shifts = 60minutes x Operators x Productive hrs x No. Of Shifts x Days 7 Days time/task Bottleneck = Lowest output (Moulding) Theoretical Capacity/hr = Operators x 60min Total time/task 15 x 60 = 258/hr 3.48 Q2. If all of the operators...
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...Diploma of Human Resources Management | Unit Code | BSBHRM501 | Unit Title | Manage Human Resources Services | 2. GROUP DETAILS | Group Name | | Group Title | | Day | Wednesday | Room | TD122 | Unit Start Date | 2/3/16 | Start Time | 11.30am | Unit End Date | 24/6/16 | Finish Time | 1.30pm | 3. CONTACT DETAILS | | Name | Room | Phone | Email | Teacher | Mike Hannaford | TD232 | 0430551171 | mhannaford@swin.edu.au | Course Leader | Mike Hannaford | TD232 | 0430551171 | mhannaford@swin.edu.au | Administration | Student HQ | SPW | 1300368777 | www.swinburne.edu.au/askgeorge | 4. DELIVERY OVERVIEW | Class Time | External Activities | Student Project | | | Nominal Hours | 51 | | 9 | | | 60 | 5. UNIT DETAILS | Unit Type | Core | | Elective | | Result | Graded | | Ungraded | | Pre/Co Requisites | N/A | Description | This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to plan, manage and evaluate delivery of human resource services, integrating business ethics.It applies to individuals with responsibility for coordinating a range of human resource services across an organisation. They may have staff reporting to them.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | Elements | 1 | Determine strategies for delivery of human resource services | | 2 | Manage the delivery of human resource services | | 3 | Evaluate human resource service delivery | | 4 | Manage...
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...MANAGEMENT OF CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASES | TERM | Prelim | WEEK NO | 2 | SESSION | 2 | DURATION | 5 hrs. | INTENDED LEARNINGOUTCOMES | COURSE OUTCOMES | 1. Explain the pathophysiology, the effects of the disease on patient’s nutritional status and the and the required dietary management. 2. Discuss the principles involved in the dietary management of a patient’s disease. 3. Design a nutritional therapy program for patient with cardio-vascular disease. | UNIT OUTCOME/S | 1. Discussion on cardio-vascular diseases and their nutritional therapy management. 2. Develop nutritional therapy program for a patient with cardio-vascular disease. | MATERIALS AND RESOURCES NEEDED | MATERIALS | * Overhead Projector/Laptop and LCD, Laboratory Manual in Nutrition Therapy | TEXTBOOK | Ruiz, Adela J. (2010). Basic Diet Therapy for Filipinos | SUBTOPICS | * TEACHING ACTIVITY | * LEARNING ACTIVITY | * TIME | * OLFU VMV * PEO, CEO * Course Outline | Interactive Lecture | Interactive Discussion | 1.5 hrs. | * OLFU VMV * PEO, CEO * Course Outline | Problem-solving: Organization of laboratory activities | Laboratory Activity: Class organization and Kitchen brigade system | 2.5 hrs. | SUBTOPICS | * ASSESSMENT TASKS | * ASSESSMENT TOOLS | * TIME | * OLFU VMV * PEO, CEO * Course Outline | * Objective test | * * Quiz: Filling the blanks | * .5 hr | * OLFU VMV * PEO, CEO * Course Outline | * Laboratory...
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...of CIPD’s HR Profession Map DATE: 18th October 2012 1.0 Introduction This report has been produced for a new HR practitioner entering into Companies House. This report it outlines The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) HR Profession Map and how this feeds into timely and effective service delivery from professional HR practitioners. The HR Profession Map (HRPM) developed by CIPD is a useful wide-ranging visionary tool of how HR can add value to the organisation it operates in. The map covers skills, behaviours and knowledge that HR people require in order to become a successful HR professional. It also helps to identify areas that people may need to be developed. The map provides support to individuals as they recognise development needs for their career progression which in turn helps the practitioner acquire the knowledge, skills and behaviours to deliver timely and effective HR services to its customers. The information for this report has been collected from the CIPD website and the HR map. 1.1 Findings The HR Profession Map holds two professional core areas that cover insights, strategy and solutions as well as Leading HR. Insights, Strategy and Solutions is where the professional fosters legitimate insights and solutions, which aid understanding in the business and how it works (or should work), and allows well-defined strategies to be developed and implemented in order to improve things. Leading HR is where a prominent HR professional...
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...Personnel Review HR outsourcing: threat or opportunity? Jeroen Delmotte Luc Sels Article information: To cite this document: Jeroen Delmotte Luc Sels, (2008),"HR outsourcing: threat or opportunity?", Personnel Review, Vol. 37 Iss 5 pp. 543 - 563 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00483480810891673 Downloaded on: 27 September 2014, At: 02:58 (PT) References: this document contains references to 65 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 10667 times since 2008* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Jean Woodall, William Scott#Jackson, Timothy Newham, Melanie Gurney, (2009),"Making the decision to outsource human resources", Personnel Review, Vol. 38 Iss 3 pp. 236-252 John Hindle, (2005),"HR outsourcing in operation: critical success factors", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 13 Iss 3 pp. 39-42 Peter Brown, (2010),"The power of HR outsourcing", Strategic HR Review, Vol. 9 Iss 6 pp. 27-32 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by 131740 [] For Authors If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.com Emerald...
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...Roles 8 Tasks and Schedule 9 Budget Cost 9 Risk Management 10 Communications and Reporting Plan 10 Change Control Management 10 Project Repository 11 Implementation Plan 11 High Level Tasks 12 Figure 1 High-Level Tasks/Milestones 12 Budget for Project 13 Figure 2: Project Cost Summary 14 Human and Technology Resources 14 Figure 3 Breakdown of Project Roles 15 Risk Plan 15 Figure 4 Project Risks 16 Communication and Reporting Plan 17 Meetings 17 Figure 5 Standing Meetings Summary 17 Status Reports 18 Status Report 19 Meeting Minutes: 20 Project Status Summary 20 Project Progress/Accomplishments 20 Attention Areas 21 Project Schedule Issues/Updates 21 Deliverables 22 Cost Reports 22 Figure 6: Project Costs 22 Summary Resources: 23 Figure 7: Resource Allocation Summary 23 Goals for Next Week Review 23 Table 1: Goals and Responsibility 23 Project Dashboard 25 Figure 1: Project Dashboard as of August 16, 2014 25 Work Accomplished 27 Figure 2: WBS Tasks Completed 27 Updated WBS 28 Figure 3: Updated WBS 28 Project Cost Summary 30 Figure 4: Project Expenditures Summary 30 Resource Usage log 31 Figure 5: Resource Log 31 Project Deliverables 32 Unplanned Change 33 Meeting Minutes: 34 Project Status Summary: 34 Project Progress/Accomplishments: 35 Project Schedule Issues/Updates: 35 Deliverables: 36 Cost Reports: 36 Figure 1: Project Costs 36 Summary Resources: 37 Figure 2: Resource...
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...on HRM has long been attracting the interest of academics, no empirical research has ever been realized in this field in Turkey, and few studies have been reported elsewhere. The survey was conducted among the 106 IT managers and professionals from various sectors, based on whose results, the data shows that IT is used extensively in the organizations to perform HRM functions in Turkey's dynamic economy. The results also indicated that, while IT has an impact on all sectors in terms of HRM to certain extent, the types of IT used vary significantly between recruitment, maintenance, and development tasks. However, the empirical results here reveal that these organizations are not applying these technologies systematically and maturely in the performance of HRM functions. Key words: human resource management (HRM), human resource management system (HRMS), human resource (HR), information technology (IT), ANOVA test, chi-square test Full Text: The HRM function in organizations has gained increasing...
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