...Chapter 1 Overview of the 21st century workplace - Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing society > like in 2003 there was so wireless but now its changing now most of the business rely on wireless communication - Economy is global and driven by innovation and technology > you need new original ideas (innovative) High performing companies gain extraordinary results from people working for them Interdependent, knowledge based > Depend on each other as a part of organization Study question 1 what are the challenges of working in the new economy > intellcutual capital people are the ultimate foundations of orgzanitional performances intellcutual capital is the collective brain power or shared knowledge of a workforce that can be used to create value A knowledge worker adds to Globalization . National boundaries of world business have largely dissappeared . globalizations is the worldwide interdependence of resource flows,product markets and business competition that characterisitv that characterize the new company Technology . Continuing transformation of the modern workplace throughout > the internet (having social network websites to market product) > worldwide web (exchange of stocks) > computers > information technology .Increasing demand for the knowledge workers with the skills to fully utilize technology Diversity: >workforce diversity reflects differences with respect to gender , age, race, ethnicity, religion,sexual orientation...
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...the HR unit the bank can employ the educated bankers and reduce turnover ratios. I mean, because of HR unit will work for supervisors’ and line managers’ needs, the employee which apply the job probably educated by HR unit about the which machine or computer software does he/ she have to. As a result of HR unit, turnovers decrase and efficiency increases in the bank. 3rd Question: What specific functions should an HR unit carry out? What HR functions would then be carried out by supervisors and other line managers? What role should the Internet play in the new HR organization? - A Line Function: The human resource manager directs the activities of the people in his or her own department and perhaps in related areas. - A Coordinative Function: The human resource manager also coordinates personnel activities, a duty often referred to as functional authority. Here, he or she ensures that line managers are implementing the firm’s human resouce policies and practices. - Staff (asist and...
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...Through the HR unit the bank can employ the educated bankers and reduce turnover ratios. I mean, because of HR unit will work for supervisors’ and line managers’ needs, the employee which apply the job probably educated by HR unit about the which machine or computer software does he/ she have to. As a result of HR unit, turnovers decrase and efficiency increases in the bank. 3rd Question: What specific functions should an HR unit carry out? What HR functions would then be carried out by supervisors and other line managers? What role should the Internet play in the new HR organization? - A Line Function: The human resource manager directs the activities of the people in his or her own department and perhaps in related areas. - A Coordinative Function: The human resource manager also coordinates personnel activities, a duty often referred to as functional authority. Here, he or she ensures that line managers are implementing the firm’s human resouce policies and practices. - Staff (asist and advise) Function:...
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...Running head: Ethical Issues in HRM Strategy HRM 530: Assignment #1 Nakesha Booker Strayer University Dr. Obi Iwuanyanwu July 15, 2012 When hired as a newly HRM (Human Resource Management) consultant, you must first understand your role before you can began assisting with any issues or other areas of overlap. The primary role of a HRM consultant “is to assist the client to identify needs, develop an action plan and facilitate change to enhance the success of your organization. Our management, human resource, and training services are designed to improve productivity, efficiency, communication and employee morale” (Welcome to HR Consultants, Inc., 2009). Once you have a thorough understanding of your duties in this role you can successfully develop an action plan that will aid in the implementation of necessary changes within the organization. Some areas of overlap that you many encounter in a new client organization could include; but not limited to the following: talent acquisition, retention, employee morale, and training. Each of these roles (in my opinion) is vital in the successfulness of any organization. If you, as a HRM consultant can acquire the needed talent, effectively train them while instilling the need of excellent employee morale, you will be able to retain these employees keeping, while maintaining a high retention rate. While not all candidates selected will be successful, the important part is that HRM consultants...
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...affect the team spirit. 3.Supervisors and line managers must also keep each individual motivated and make themfeel appreciated by showing interest in their work, communicating and interacting withtheir employees. Another method to keep the morale of the employees high is torecommend them for promotion and nominate them for an award. 4. Supervisors and linemanagers must lead by example and communicate and interact with all employees andencouraging them to do so as well. Better communication with each other will have a positive effect on all employees and the bank’s branches. The problems could have beenidentified and solved sooner if the supervisors had communicated to each other. Assignment 1: Case Study, Jack Nelson’s Problem3. c) What role should the Internet play in the new HR organization? 1. HR informationtechnology and software is essential for any HR organization to help them manage their benefits plans and their employee information. An applicant tracking software isavailable that can be used for real time tracking of attendance, leave and salaries of employees. 2. Many organizations use intranet that is a single internal source that isaccessible for all employees within the company. It have all company related informationlike vacancies,...
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...HUMAN RESOURCES STRATEGIES – RESOURCING STRATEGY Marinaş Cristian Puia Ramona Ştefania Academia de Studii Economice Bucureşti, PiaŃa Romană nr.6, Sector 1, Bucureşti, +4021 319 19 00, Ramona.puia@man.ase.ro In this article the authors make an abstract of the main human resources strategies, presenting them in relation with the global strategy of the organisation. The accent falls on resourcing strategy, one of the main sources of competitive advantage. Resourcing strategy is not just about recruitment and selection. It is concerned with any means available to meet the needs of the firm for certain skills and behaviours. A strategy to enlarge the skill base may start with recruitment and selection but would also extend into learning and development programmes to enhance skills and methods of rewarding people for the aquisition of extra skills. These statements want to emphasise the strong links between different human resource strategies. Key words: strategic management, human resources, resoucing strategy, skills. The last years’ research proved that the main priority of organisation strategy and strategic management is to secure a long-term future of the company. It is certain that such a purpose you can not achieve by practicing a bad human resource management and not take into consideration the strategic role of human resources. The human factors are critical when implementing a different organisational strategy, as people are usually change resistant. The performance of...
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...1. Introduction HSBC is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between Europe, India and China. In the early years of the 20th century, HSBC widened its activities in the East and became increasingly involved in the issuing of loans to national governments, especially in China, to finance modernisation and internal infrastructure projects such as railway building. In the later years of the 20th century HSBC moved from an important regional bank to one of the world's leading financial services organisations. In the 21st century, HSBC has renewed its focus on its birthplace, growing its business in China both organically and through a series of strategic partnerships. Nowadays, HSBC's international network comprises more than 6,200 offices in 74 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa,. ranks first in the Forbes 400 Top UK based companies in spite of its root from Asian, with deversified products and services, including advisory, financing, trading, sales, transaction banking, research and analysis. Unilever is an Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, England and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's third-largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue, after Procter &...
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...What is Management Explain the different parts of the formal definition? Management is a process, involving a series of activities and operations, such as planning, organizing, leading and controlling an enterprises financial, physical, human and information resources to achieve the organizations goal of supplying various products and services to consumers Finally, management involves activities carried out in an organizational setting by people with different functions intentionally structured and coordinated to achieve common purposes. Basically the management is structured around the areas of financial, human resources, operation, and marketing and information organizational functions. Question 2: what creates the personality of an organization? Each organization has its own personality created by the experiences, skills, personalities, and mannerisms among the people who make up the organization. Question 3: Complete the sentence: The rational decision making process requires to …… 1) Evaluate the effectiveness of their decision 2) Make sure that the chosen alternative has served its original purpose 3) Adopt an alternative that had previously been discarded 4) Recognize that the situation was not correctly defined to begin with and start the process all over again if required Question 4: What is the importance of each of Mintzbergs 10 mangerial roles? Name and present a short explanation for each of them. The Figurehead Role involves...
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...Job Analysis / Job Description Tadiwa Njagu Professor Smith HRM530 7\27\2015 A job analysis is the process used to collect information about the duties, responsibilities, necessary skills, outcomes, and work environment of a particular job. You need as much data as possible to put together a job description, which is the frequent outcome of the job analysis. Additional outcomes include recruiting plans, position postings and advertisements, and performance development planning within your performance management system (Heathfield, 2000). Hiring a new employee(s) can be challenging and a lot work. Some bosses will just hire the first person they interview so they can get it over with, but this could be very damaging to the company. Small companies like Emery’s Landscaping cannot afford to make this mistake. They are small company of 12 employees and if someone is not pulling their weight then another person has to pick up the slack. Emery’s is a landscaping company which needs a marketing person. The goal of a market analysis is to determine the attractiveness of a market and to understand its evolving opportunities and threats as they relate to the strengths and weaknesses of the firm (Aaker, 2012). The business is growing more and more every day. Communication and commitment to our clients is a couple of our strengths. The weather is one of our weaknesses but we have no control on this. The new employee will help the company to make sure our strengths are greater than...
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...an organization have with the issue of employee retention? Explain why they could be problems. When an organization loses employees, they also lose skills, experience and corporate memory. The magnitude and nature of these losses can be critical problems for and organization. It is no doubt that over the years, the employment relationship has undergone a number of changes that impact attraction, motivation and retention of talented employees. This has brought to the forefront the need to understand the individual/organizational relationship, namely the psychological contract. This is the employee’s interpretations and evaluation of their deal with the organization (Dietz, 2009). Past research has shown that in order for retention management to be effective, the employee’s and the organization’s expectation must be in line. Also job satisfaction, loyalty, and commitment can cause problems in relation to employee retention. Employees are no longer looking to work for one place for the rest of their life and make an average wage. They are always looking for ways to advance in their careers. If these needs are not met by the organizations, this will lead to turnover. Individual employee performance can also lead to problems in retention. Motivation is the key. When employees have insufficient support to get tasks accomplished, their level of motivation declines. This problem can be due to lack of resources and adequate training. All and all employees simply want to...
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...Human Resource Management Overview HRM/300 January 12, 2016 Marina Viner HRM is an essential and vital function for organizational success.While HRM focuses on the potential and actual productive value of HR to an organizations’ success, strategic HRM takes a more long term focus by emphasizing the need of HR plans and strategies of overall organization. The emphasis of strategic HRM is on strategic integration which is matching HRM strategies to business strategies. In this paper, we will discuss two models of Strategic HRM: The matching model and the resource-based model. Comparing these models, while listing their similarities and differences, will help us understand Strategic HRM on a better level. In the second part of this paper, I will address which features of the Resource-based view my current workplace: the Treasury Board Secretariat (Federal Government) uses and how it relates to Human Resources Management. Matching model First off, the matching model also known as “best fit”, requires that an organizations’ HRM policies and practices be configured and managed in a way that is congruent with the particular strategy. This model concentrates on fit between an external strategy and internal strategy. HRM strategies are all about making business strategies work and so emphasis is placed on how to best match and develop appropriate systems. This model concentrates on the following issues to address success: • Selection (Most suitable people for the business...
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...| High/Mod | Masculinity | High | High | High | High | Uncertainty Avoidance | High | Low | High | High/Mod | Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions | Adam Gunter | Jon Bagley | Trisha Harris | United States Born | X | X | X | Different Nationality | | | | Lived Abroad | X | | | Traveled Abroad | X | X | X | b. Question Responses * To what extent are the ratings derived from your group consistent with each other or with Hofstede’s results? Individualism is the highest ranking in Hofstede’s Analysis. With a group of 3, Masculinity is our highest-ranking dimension. Everyone in the group ranked High with masculinity, which means that the U.S. experiences a higher degree of gender differentiation of roles. Males dominate many roles, though women are more competitive. The results for power distance are not consistent with Hofstede as the 2nd ranking among our group. This means that societal levels from governments, families and businesses are more equal and allows for cooperation and a more stable cultural environment. 2/3 of the group showed a high individualism dimension. This data provides that being from the U.S., individuals are more likely to have an individualistic attitude, be more self-reliant, and look out only for themselves and close family. Adam said that he chose a low individualism dimension because of his upbringing in that without the sum of everyone, the team fails. This was also partially due to the cultures that he was raised...
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...RATIONALE The purpose of this study is to promote self-learning on the topic human resource management. To assess how carnel fundamental jewellery monitor employee’s performance, to determine how workers at carnel fundamental jewellery are rewarded and motivated and to identify how carnel pay his workers. Also in this research learning outcome 4 will also be examine where the ethical way used by the two organisations to lay off workers will be assess. The importance of human resource planning at Carnel’s fundamental jewellery. It’s also to identify ways used to measure employee performance, to determine the difference between personnel management and human resource management, to assess the importance of human resource planning in organisation, to identify the appropriateness of ways used by the two organisations to lay off workers. The research was undertaken through the use of visiting Carnel fundamental jewellery. Human Resource textbooks and the internet were used with the methodology in defining what quantitative and qualitative research; the background check is up on Pryce Fashionista Boutique websites and for the definition of terms and concept. LO3 Aims and objectives * To assess how carnel fundamental jewellery monitor employee’s performance * To determine how workers at Carnel Fundamental jewellery are rewarded and motivated. * To identify the method used by carnel to pay his work Lo4 Aims and objectives * To identify the exit procedure of workers...
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...A job analysis is the process used to collect information about the duties, responsibilities, necessary skills, outcomes, and work environment of a particular job. You need as much data as possible to put together a job description, which is the frequent outcome of the job analysis. Additional outcomes include recruiting plans, position postings and advertisements, and performance development planning within your performance management system (Heathfield, 2000). Hiring a new employee(s) can be challenging and a lot work. Some bosses will just hire the first person they interview so they can get it over with, but this could be very damaging to the company. Small companies like Emery’s Landscaping cannot afford to make this mistake. They are small company of 12 employees and if someone is not pulling their weight then another person has to pick up the slack. Emery’s is a landscaping company which needs a marketing person. The goal of a market analysis is to determine the attractiveness of a market and to understand its evolving opportunities and threats as they relate to the strengths and weaknesses of the firm (Aaker, 2012). The business is growing more and more every day. Communication and commitment to our clients is a couple of our strengths. The weather is one of our weaknesses but we have no control on this. The new employee will help the company to make sure our strengths are greater than our weaknesses. Mr. Emery is so busy he cannot keep up with getting new customers...
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...ID No. 12754448 Marital Status: Married Religion: Muslim CAREER OBJECTIVE To work in a challenging and dynamic position in an area of Professional Human Resources training, development and Knowledge management, with a view of integrating creativity, team work and research to provide practical way forward that will map comprehensive strategies for human capacity development PERSONAL PROFILE • Good communication and interpersonal skills with ability to relate to people at all levels. • Ready to learn and take instructions. • Strong team leadership character, trustworthy and reliable personality. • Excellent endurance and ability to work under pressure and dead lines. • Able to mix and socialize quickly with people of diverse cultures and background. • Strong ambitions for success with equally focused determination and stamina to achieve. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Date Institution/Award 2007 – 2012 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, School for Human Resource Development. Doctor of Philosophy in Human Resource Management 2005 – 2007 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, School of Human Resource Development. Master of Science in Human Resource Management 2002 – 2005 Egerton University – Njoro Bachelor of Education, Second Class (Honors) Upper Division 1995 – 1997 Kagumo College Diploma...
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