...Career Planning Essay According to Werner and DeSimone (2009), career planning can be defined as “a deliberate process of becoming aware of self, opportunities, constraints, choices, and consequences 2) identifying career-related goals and 3) programming work, education, and related developmental experiences to provide the direction, timing, and sequence of steps to attain a specific career goal. Each individual has unique goals that he/she has to meet which helps them in exploring career options and obtaining certain skills that will help them in future. Below are three main questions (taken from Human Resource Development textbook) based on self assessment, future goals and plan to achieve the goals. The questions include 1) where do I want to be, 2) Where am I now, and, 3) How am I going to get there. The questions are discussed in detail based on my career planning. Where do I want to be? The part of this essay discusses about my goals, objectives and preferences about career development. In order to develop career, a person should be able to outline the personal professional preferences. Following are my goals and objectives: * What are my short-term career objectives? * Increase my education/ experience * Strengthen my engineering skills accomplish the currently assigned jobs * Increase in job responsibilities which will eventually strengthen my position at work * What are my long-term career objectives? * To be an Engineering...
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...and approaches. External environment – Influences and restricts a firm’s activities, objectives, strategies and personnel actions. It is influenced by : i) Government requirements – this is represented by laws and regulations as they affect the management human resources. ii) Union expectations – as manifested by leadership members. Restricts and influences firm operations. iii) Economic conditions – changing always. Hiring and payment of employees is itself a reflection of how economic conditions influence companies’ operations. iv) Labour market conditions always changing availability of skilled manpower and expectations of people. Definition Human Resources Management – Is the set of activities that are intended to influence the effectiveness of human resources and organizations. HRM Activities a) Human Resource Planning b) Employment Planning c) Equal opportunity employment d) Job design and analysis e) Recruitment f) Selection g) Career development h) Performance development (management) i) Compensation j) Health and Safety k) Evaluation of Personnel HANDOUT 1 Human Resources Planning - This is a future and Action oriented process and looks at each individual as unique. - It is a process by which management determines how the organization should move from its current (H.R.) position to a new desired position. - HRD integrates internal and external environments and focuses personnel decisions towards human...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMERY Recruitment and selection is a customized process of each individual organization. As business process differs from organization to organization, different organization fill up different types of employee needs. So the process to build the employee pool and finally making the best choice from candidates differs a lot. The report is presenting a portfolio of five different types of organizations, which manifest the customized process suitable for each organization. For example: British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) do not take written test, but Damco take written test for different levels of candidates. According to Shahriar Mahmood of Reckitt Benckiser (RB) ‘there is nothing called first impression in HR’ but in Standard Chartered Bank (SCB); as it is a financial institution, it has to choose employee who are presentable, so first impression is very important at interview. Damco out source much of their root level job but British American Tobacco (BAT), Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), Unilever, and Reckitt Benckiser (RB) do not out-source job, on the other hand; SCB take many of their employees on contract based. So recruitment and selection follow the required business process of different organizations. In this report we have presented our collected data from both primary and secondary sources, and analyzed them to present the information in a flow, that can clarify the individual characteristic of different organizations and as well as their recruitment...
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...discuss the principle elements of your educational and work experience to date. Describe your specific career objectives as a professional manager(three to five pages, double-spaced) Since I had worked in the xxx product department of xxx, established by my deceased father, the yearly income was $xx million in 19xx and in the top 10 rank in Korea, my major problem was a lack of knowledge in Finance and Management. Upon graduation from undergraduate studies, I was employed in the Management Planning Team. Because I did not have the background in business administration from majoring in English Literature in undergraduate, I realized the difficulty in grasping the concept of general company matters, marketing analysis, and setting up the short and long-term marketing plan. When I participated in the future development of xxx and sales project for 10 months that began in February 19xx, I realized that I was incapable of successfully performing my duties as an Assistant Manager with 8 staff members for a project in which the company heavily depended upon. It was then that I had realized what special talent was needed to become a successful manager. For instance, while analyzing xxx, xxx’s technological advantage and marketing strategies, I realized the importance of learning Marketing Research and Strategy. I also realized the importance of Financial Management and Corporate Financial Policies when planning sales and marketing strategies for the future sales of xxx and strategies...
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...Business Management Principles & Practices of Management www.iibmindia.in Subject: PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICES OF MANAGEMENT Credits: 4 SYLLABUS Nature Scope and process of management, historical evolution of management & its foundation. Different approaches and systems of management, Types of skills, roles and modern challenges. Management Planning Process. Managerial decision Making Introduction to Organizing Organizational Structure and Its Dimensions. Different Types of Organizational Design and Their Advantages and Disadvantages. Nature and types of control in organizations. Introduction to Controlling Controlling Techniques, Types and its advantages & disadvantages. Control Process and its constituents. Introduction to Human Resource Management HRM planning & steps in planning process. HRM process Recruitment, selection, Training and development. Performance Appraisal and issues in human resources Leadership concept and some leadership theories. Leadership theories. Leadership Models. Leadership Development and Motivation. Motivational theories Suggested Readings: 1. Harold Koontz & Heinz Weihrich, Essentials of Management, Tata McGraw Hill 2. Stoner, Freeman, Gilbert Jr., Management, Prentice Hall 3. Bhatt & Kumar, Principle and Practices of Management, Oxford Publications PRINCIPLESOF MANAGEMENT COURSE OVERVIEW Management is the organizational process that aids us in creating a that many layers of management-particularly...
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...PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT www.eiilmuniversity.ac.in Subject: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT Credits: 4 SYLLABUS Nature Scope and process of management, historical evolution of management & its foundation. Different approaches and systems of management, Types of skills, roles and modern challenges. Management Planning Process. Managerial decision Making Introduction to Organizing Organizational Structure and Its Dimensions. Different Types of Organizational Design and Their Advantages and Disadvantages. Nature and types of control in organizations. Introduction to Controlling Controlling Techniques, Types and its advantages & disadvantages. Control Process and its constituents. Introduction to Human Resource Management HRM planning & steps in planning process. HRM process Recruitment, selection, Training and development. Performance Appraisal and issues in human resources Leadership concept and some leadership theories. Leadership theories. Leadership Models. Leadership Development and Motivation. Motivational theories Suggested Readings: 1. Harold Koontz & Heinz Weihrich, Essentials of Management, Tata McGraw Hill 2. Stoner, Freeman, Gilbert Jr., Management, Prentice Hall 3. Bhatt & Kumar, Principles of Management, Oxford Publications PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT COURSE OVERVIEW Management is the organizational process that aids us in that many layers of management-particularly middle manage- creating a service or product from the raw materials we have...
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...How Human Resource Management Practices affects Employee Performance. Principle Author: ALI SADIQ Ali.sadiq.ch@live.com MS Student Other Authors: TAHIRA JABEEN, HASHIR KHAN, ABDUL BASIT, WAQAS ASLAM MS Students COMSATS INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAHORE CAMPUS CHAPERT 1 Abstract Human Resource is the most important asset for any organization and it is the resource of achieving competitive advantage. Managing human resources is very challenging as compared to managing technology or capital and for its effective management, organization requires effective HRM system. HRM system should be backed up by strong HRM practices. HRM practices refer to organizational activities directed at managing the group of human resources and ensuring that the resources are employed towards the fulfillment of organizational goals. The purpose of this study is to explore contribution of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices including selection, training, career planning, compensation, performance appraisal, job definition and employee participation on perceived employee performance. We describe why human resource management (HRM) decisions are likely to have an important and unique influence on organizational performance. Our hope is that this research forum will help advance research on the link between HRM and organizational performance. We identify key unresolved questions in need of future study and make several suggestions intended to help researchers...
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