...Should Human Resources be an Inside Job? A Study on the of Outsourcing Human Resources Departments Prepared by Nneka A. Gunn Report Distributed July 21, 2011 Prepared for Dr. Mike Chase Managing Human Resources MBA BUSM 533 – Group 13 This is to certify that this paper was constructed and written solely by Nneka Gunn INTRODUCTION In a world that is filled with financial turmoil and economic upheaval, companies are looking for ways to cut costs at every turn in order to maximize profits. This research paper will delve into the world of outsourcing. One may ask, “What is outsourcing?” Outsourcing in business is when an organization contracts or hires another company to perform duties and tasks or provide a service that is normally performed in-house, which offers access to skilled expertise, a manageable and variable cost structure, and opportunities for increased focus on an organizations’ core business. The idea of outsourcing is traced to have originated in the 1960s with the Electronic Data System. The history of outsourcing as a strategy shows that it developed from a need for specialized, lower cost labor; which makes outsourcing a great fit for small businesses that are often short of labor, and need low costs. Businesses can keep control of the training function, but gain a strategic partner that can address key needs at a reasonable cost. Human Resources (HR) is the fastest growing segment of the business process outsourcing sector. HR is...
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...Intellectual capital is knowledge that can be exploited for some money-making or other useful purpose. The term combines the idea of the intellect or brain-power with the economic concept of capital, the saving of entitled benefits so that they can be invested in producing more goods and services. Intellectual capital can include the skills and knowledge that a company has developed about how to make its goods or services; individual employees or groups of employees whose knowledge is deemed critical to a company's continued success; and its aggregation of documents about processes, customers, research results, and other information that might have value for a competitor that is not common knowledge. Classification of Intellectual capital • Human capital- The value that the employees of a business provide through the application of skills, know-how and expertise. It can be defined as all the unique ideas, skills, and knowledge that an individual owns and contributes to an organization. • Structural capital- Structural capital is the structures and mechanisms that help support employees and includes procedures, routines and everything that is left in the organization. It includes processes, intangible assets like patents, and trademarks, as well as the organization’s image, information system, competitive market intelligence and proprietary software and databases. • Relational capital This refers to relationships with other organizations, market orientation, knowledge of...
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...like to work. My ideal job would be to work as a Human Resource Director at the Social Security Administration, making a salary of $270,000.00 per year. As my job duties I would be responsible for all of the Human Resource functions within the company and report directly to the commissioner. The department areas that I will cover and be responsible for all function are as follows. This would consist of recruitment; the Human Resource Director would have to make sure that the recruitment team is able to find the right talent. Ensure the individual is right for the job. This is important that the recruitment team has a strong filter process, or able to red flag particular candidates. Recruiters should also be knowledgeable of the company, confident and loyal. The duties would also involve traveling as well. Payroll and Time management, this is a very important sector of the Human Resource department. This area would be responsible for hourly employee’s time, vacation, sick time, FMLA, and bonus. They will make sure they all the taxes are accounted for and verification of the employees direct deposit and tax exemptions. If the employees have questions about their pay checks they will need to contact this area of human resource business. The Human Resource Director should ensure that a knowledgeable Human Resource Generalist is in place to handle all terminations and on boarding. This is a vital part of the Human Resource function because everything should be done in a specific...
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...and executive summaries of reports to understand what they are and how to compose them. Your main task is to develop a broad overview of the mission and purpose to be prepared to participate in the team activity for Unit 8. Note: Your assigned role for the team is not needed or related to this assignment. As you complete this assignment on this template, refer to information provided in the unit 7 studies. Specifically, utilize these provided resources and perform research to satisfactorily complete this assignment. • Teamwork Activity Challenge. • Organizational Structure reading. • Functional Areas Managers reading. Important: This assignment is due Sunday of week 7. Learners completing it on time will be performing Unit 8 as part of a team. Learners without a successful, timely assignment cannot be on a team. Important: Utilize paragraph structure in your document, not outline format, and support your ideas with references. References can include those identified from both the Internet and a library. Hint: The following template will guide the development of the compositions, reference list, and appendix. Further, it provides extra instructions to guide the development of clearly written and well-focused compositions. Your compositions need to include the Summary items listed next. Summary...
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...Understand Jessica Rivera Western International University COM 110/Effective Persuasive Writing Lisa Hughes November 27, 2005 Employee Rights: Something Every Employee Should Know and Understand Currently, many employees take for granted the fact that they have more rights then just minimum wage, overtime pay, safe workplace, and equal opportunity rights. Many people do not take the time to access the resources needed to educate themselves on the rights they are entitled. By not knowing and understanding the importance of the employee rights, the employee in turn gives up their rights. Employees need to ask themselves, before reading this essay, do they fall into this category. If so, those employees should read further. If not, those employees should seek the necessary information about their rights to ensure that they know the rights that they are entitled. Employees must always acquire the knowledge concerning which rights they are entitled for their type of employment. There are so many valuable resources but too few really know where the search begins. When a person begins a new job, they must sign an acknowledgement stating that they understand the rights that they are granted as a condition of employment with their perspective employer. In many cases though, they do not fully understand that their signing of this document is an acknowledgement and an agreement of their and the employers rights. Most employees do not understand that...
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...FEMSA – Organization Development – HR Sustainment Intervention Fomento Economico Mexicano, known as Femsa (FMX) sustainability program keeps evolving with new acquisition and joint business ventures. In 2011, FEMSA and business segments required an organization development planned change to improve the corporation’s sustainability. Our research will focus on the corporations five core areas: ethics and corporate values; quality of life in the company; health and wellness, community engagement and, environment care. The OD practitioner used the well know Lewin’s Action Research theory, which is composed of repetitive four step process: diagnostic, planning, plan execution, and plan evaluation (Cheung-Judge, M., & Holbeche, L. 2011) FEMSA is a leading company that participates in the non-alcoholic beverage industry through Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world in terms of sales volume; in the retail industry through FEMSA Comercio, operating the largest and fastest-growing chain of stores in Latin America, and in the beer industry, through its ownership of the second largest equity stake in Heineken, one of the world’s leading brewers with operations in over 70 countries. KOF invested more than Ps. 28,000 million in mergers and acquisitions during 2011, to consolidate its leadership position in Mexico and Latin America, while entering the milk and value-added dairy products category with a leading...
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...FROM: xxxxx, Manager RE: Behavioral Management Expected of First Level Managers DATE: August 3, 2009 As you know, InterClean, Inc has acquired its primary domestic competitor, EnviroTech. This is an exciting time for be part of InterClean’s sales team. With acquiring EnviroTech, InterClean moves closer in achieving the number one spot in the sanitation industry nationally with a goal of becoming worldwide. The merger and the integration of EnviroTech’s existing sales force will directly support the strategic goals of InterClean to become a more service oriented company. The merger will allow our sales team to expand our customer base as well as our knowledge. As managers, we must embrace the new idea of expanding and instill confidence in our employees that the change is good. Our behavior and attitude towards the merger will directly affect our employees. During this time of the InterClean-EnviroTech merger, we need to adapt and be an example to all that we are a unified sales team that will grow our productivity and expand into a new market. As First Level Managers your behavior directly affects the employees’ attitude and therefore, productivity and customer service. With this transition time, your duty to make this change a positive experience to for the team is imperative. Please make your employees aware of future trainings that will enhance their ability to support the up and coming sanitation company in the United States and in the future, worldwide...
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...China this facility produces plastic fans. The Company’s headquarter in San Jose California is a research and development facility. Their customers are the Department of Defense, automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. Every company wants the best system that will help make their company grow bigger and better. Riordan Manufacturing Company has a system in the Human Resource department that is a little outdated. It will require a new HR system to make workflow easier and faster for them. This will require a good implementation stage in order to make it successful for the company. There are six major activities that must be address. These are coding, testing, installation, documentation, training and support. Coding is can be difficult to understand because it is considered to be subjective and non-subjective at the same time. It needs to be thoroughly planned out to have a good code for the new system. It will need to have a good design pattern, have common libraries and a good project structure. For this system to be successful it will need to have a high quality and maintainable codes. Providing the right alignment, white space, naming syntax highlighting, right context and IDE will create a clear code. To enable for the system to have a good quality codes it will require the right programmer to create. There are many people that can create a code in a...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 part 1 BSA/375 Christopher Christmon Michael James July 18, 2015 The COO of Riordan manufacturing Hugh McCauley would like to combine the existing variety of tools in use into a single multi integrated application. Riordan Manufacturing wants to take advantage of the more sophisticated state of the art information systems that has already existed in the human resources department (Riordan Manufacturing, 2006). The information gathered in this document the information gathering techniques and the very sophisticated planned design methods that will be used and explained in great detail. The requirements for the business and the Human resources systems are to maintain the objectives of this request. That will be defined in this paper. Key factors will be to help make sure the information that is gathered for this project is gathered effectively, there will be a defined and detailed plan and report generated for each stage of the project. This plan will make available the list of everyday jobs, resources and schedule with a detailed financial plan. Information – Gathering Techniques and Design Methods When developing a plan of this size, it is important to gather Information from many sources to ensure that each job is fulfilled in its fullest. To begin the information gathering process, the management team will meet with key personnel from al of the essential departments to discuss the project at hand and keep it on track. Throughout the...
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...The human services field is confronted by challenges from various aspects which include sufficient fundraising, retention of competent staff and implementation of training course for personnel. Moreover, human service professionals are facing difficulties in reaching out to clients in the rural areas. In order to meet the demands of their profession, human service professionals utilize technology which includes software applications, computing devices, mobile devices and assets from other organizations. With the help of technology, it provides human service professionals with a tool to take on the issues with a straight on approach. Issues There are three main challenges that the human services field is facing which are receiving sufficient fundraising, searching for competent staff and providing services for individuals located in the rural locations. Fundraising event is very important for human service organizations since they heavily rely on donations to operate their facilities. However, most organizations do not know how to manage fundraising events, how to maintain their current benefactors or how to acquire new benefactors. Keeping track of donor information for before and future events is fundraiser issue by some organizations. They are experiencing difficulties in putting the information regarding donations into the reports that would be presented to stakeholders or members of the board. An additional challenge is faced by human resource departments on searching...
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...reputation and dominate the industry locally, regionally, and globally. This organizational is proven to with stand many problematic issues , and at the present time needs to concentrate on main problems leading to objectives that are more precise and goals to ensure success. The island of Kava faces a few hardships to overcome for success in our coffee company. The hardships that we must face are the lopsided age of the population with 50% under 15, the absence of a common language because of so many various cultures residing on the island, third in this country is the plethora of natural disasters: tidal waves, tsunami, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, HIV/AIDS, and petroleum spills. Tourism and the resources of spices, coffee, cocoa, bananas, sugar, natural gas, and petroleum have brought influential powers from all over the world to indulge in our economy that is driving our desire for global expansion and affecting lives all over the world on a daily basis. Natural disasters have put the economy in a bind numerous times creating a...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Clarence D. Spence BSA / 375 May 12, 2015 Charles Bocage Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing’s COO Hugh McCauley would like to merge the accessible selection of tools in use into a single integrated application. The business would also like to take advantage of the more advanced state-of-the art information systems technology that readily exists within the company’s human resources department. The information gathering techniques and the planned design methods that will be utilized will be outlined. The business requirements for the improvement of an HR system to maintain the intention of this request will also be defined. Significant points that will assist in making sure that the information required for this project is collected effectively will be identified and a thorough project plan will be produced. This plan will make available a list of all day to day tasks, resources, and a schedule coupled with a financial plan required to complete the project. Information Gathering Techniques and Design Method Developing a plan is important to Riordans success, it is very crucial to gather information from numerous sources to make sure the designed plan performs its intended application. Initiating the information gathering process will begin with an essential meeting with key management personnel, the end user and most important the IT staff to discuss the project. This business meeting will consist of a question...
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...Title: Riordan Manufacturing HR System Final Presentation Author: Neal Armstrong Course: BSA 375 Date: October 6th 2014 Instructor: William Glassen Introduction: Riordan Manufacturing’s current Information Technology Human Resource (HR) system is considered legacy and in need of replacement. The expected results are to define the business requirements for the development of an HR system to support the objective of a more sophisticated, state of the art, information systems technology. In this document, I will outline my plan for the new Information Technology system following in detail the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the project. Information Gathering: Information gathering occurs during the analysis phase of the SDLC and is the foundation of this project. In the analysis phase, the information gathered are used to create report definitions and layouts, screen definitions and layouts, data element definitions, and workflow diagrams. In order for it to be successful, it starts with a high-level meeting with the COO Hugh McCauley. In this meeting, I will ask Mr. McCauley to assign stakeholders and dedicate them to this information gathering process. The Ideal stakeholder would be a manager or supervisor from each area of the department who has everyday working knowledge of the current HR IT system and the IT technical staff whose job it is to ensure the new system will work under the current IT infrastructure. At the end of this meeting, I would...
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...Academic Essay "There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns." (De Bono 2009) YOUR TASK In a 1500-2000 word essay outline 2-3 aspects of creativity and critically analyse how these aspects of creativity have been applied in a specific occupation or profession of your choice. Use real world examples to support your analysis. DETAILS: You must write a draft of your essay to hand in during your tutorial in week 8. You need to make two copies of your draft to bring to your tutorial in week 9 to use in peer review with one of your colleagues from your tutorial group. Week 8: Essay Draft (Formative/ Summative) DUE: Week 8: Hand your draft to your tutor in your Week 8 tutorial. Week 11: Essay (Summative) DUE: Thursday May 14, 2015 at Assignment Minder KG, R Block, Level 2 of the Library at Kelvin Grove Campus. Include the following in your folder when you submit 1. Your Essay with 1.5 spacing between the lines 2. Your reference list (a) in alphabetical order (b) single spacing for each entry 3. Your Essay Draft (from Week 8) with your tutor’s comments page. 4. The QCD111 Essay Criteria Sheet As well as submitting the hard copy to Assignment Minder, you will need to upload your final essay digitally to the matching software tool called Turn-it-in on BB before the due date. NB: QUT Policy on...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Human Resources Integration Project Brett Hall, Carl Rascoe, Juan (Danny) Castaneda, and Tina Schaffer CIS/207 November 6, 2012 Bill Fennell Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer that was founded by Dr. Riordan in 1991. Dr. Riordan obtained several patents that later turned into commercial applications that developed his company in to a Fortune 1000 enterprise, employing 550 people with projected earnings of $46 million dollars and over $1 billion in revenues. In 1993 the company expanded from high tensile strength plastics and fans into producing plastic beverage containers. The company’s latest expansion was in 2000 when it opened operations in China. Riordan Manufacturing is the industry leader in using polymer materials with future goals of achieving and maintaining reasonable profitability to ensure and sustain growth (Apollo, 2005). In response to Hugh McCauley’s, Riordan Manufacturing Chief Operations Officer‘s (COO) concern about the antiquated processes and his requirements the team analyzed the manual and redundant processes of the current Human Resources System Integration (HRIS). The team has determined with the use of state-of-the art information technology system the current manual intensive, multi-functional processes can be integrated into a single system. The team has kept in consideration that the integrated HRIS has to be accessible by all of Riordan’s plant locations. Based on the request...
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