...CIPD HR ASSESSMENT Core Module |Title of unit/s |Recording, Analysing and Using Human Resources Information | |Unit No/s |3RAI (HR) | |Level |Foundation | |Credit value |2 | |Assessment method |Written | |Learning outcomes: | | | |Understand what data needs to be collected to support HR practices. | |Know how HR data should be recorded, managed and stored. | |Be able to analyse HR information and present findings to inform decision-making. | |Both activities should be completed. ...
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...G-DTN-M-FORA ENGLISH Paper—I (Literature) Time Allowed : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 300 INSTRUCTIONS Candidates should attempt Question Nos. I and 5 which are compulsoty, and any three of the remaining questions. selecting at least one question from each Section. The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question. Answers must be written in English. Important : Whenever a Question is being attempted, all its parts/sub-parts must be attempted contiguously. This means that before moving on to the next Question to be attempted, candidates must finish attempting all parts/sub-parts of the previous Question attempted. This is to be strictly followed. Pages left blank in the answer-book are to he clearly struck out in ink. A fly answers that follow pages left blank may not be given credit [I] SECTION—A 1. Write short notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in 150 words : 12x5=60 (a) In King Lear -Cordelia's goodness is as absolute and inexplicable as her sisters' reprovable badness...." Critically analyse the above statement with reference to your reading of King Lear. (b) -The Classical humanism of the Renaissance was fundamentally medieval and fundamentally Christian...." Critically analyse this statement. (c) How do the 'Sylphs' help in the development of the 'mock-epic' element in The Rape of the Lock ? (d) "The Romantic age marks the end of pastoral poetry in the very shock of its collision with actual...
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...SWOT Analysis of Sandwich Blitz Large Scale Expansion Plan Shanice Miles Kaplan University AB140 Introduction to Management Sylvia DeAngelo March 22, 2016 SWOT Analysis of Sandwich Blitz Large Scale Expansion Plan Sandwich Blitz, Inc. is a small chain of healthy sandwich shops located in a large metropolitan area. The business is owned by Dalman Smith, who is the President and CEO, and Lei Lee who is the Vice-President and CFO. The company currently operates eight sandwich and beverage shops located near three universities, a hospital, and four high traffic office complexes. Dalman and Lei are looking to expand their company on a larger scale, but before they do this they need to analyze the favorable and unfavorable and unfavorable factors the go against a situation. This is a SWOT analysis (Pestle Analysis, 2016). A SWOT analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that are associated with expanding a business, and determines whether it is worth being pursued (Bateman and Snell, 2013). This is the SWOT analysis of the Sandwich Blitz expansion. Case Analysis An organization’s strengths might include skilled management, positive cash flow, well-known and highly regarded brands (Bateman & Snell, 2013). Sandwich Blitz’s strengths are having the necessary resources to expand and open up two additional chain locations. If they continue to honor their mission statement, that will be a strength in itself. Weaknesses...
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...SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SWOT AND PEST ANALYSIS SWOT and PEST analyses are similar both focus on environmental factors that may affect a company. Both types of analysis use group brainstorming to identifying environmental factors. However, there are several important differences between the analysis frameworks that must be understood before either can be used effectively. PURPOSE Both SWOT and PEST have become components of a good business plan and are key in evaluating environmental factors. In order to understand how these analysis frameworks are similar, it is important to fully understand each framework individually. FEATURES OF SWOT SWOT analysis is a simple framework for evaluating the internal and external environments affecting a company. These environmental factors can be divided into four categories, from which SWOT analysis derives its name. The categories are: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses represent the internal environment, whereas opportunities and threats represent the external environment. FEATURES OF PEST PEST is a type of analysis used in strategic management that takes into account Political, Economic, Social and Technological factors. PEST analysis is a useful tool for understanding market demand/decline, current business position and potential opportunities/obstacles. The factors it analyzes should not be solely at the company level. Rather, these external factors must be examined at a company,...
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...planning department translates the concepts into designs and determines resource requirements, including raw materials. Planning also projects sales and develops production plans for each product, timeframes for production runs and scheduling of production runs. Purchasing Information gained from planning stage used to purchase raw materials for products and packaging from suppliers.  Manufacturing Produces and packages toys for distribution Distribution Delivers packaged toys to the warehouse for storage. C Product and Service Deliver The Distribution start by Sale team will take order from customer. The delivery will use the contract transport. It will sent to the retail for sale to the customer. 3. Key System and Process analyze a) Supply Chain the company start with design the product by small group of designer then sent it to the planning department for determine resource including raw material , project sales etc. After that purchase the raw material for the product. Then produce and packing and distribute to the customer in this state, the company has the good process on Supply...
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...Mashell Chapeyama University of the People Swot analysis for Chipinge Banana Company Swot analysis is an environmental scanning tool. It is widely used in the world of business in analyzing some factors that have a great bearing on the company’s drive to achieve its mission. With swot companies are able to identify both negative and positive factors that have a bearing on the viability of the organization. Using swot, a company can find its own weaknesses and strengths as well as the opportunities and threats that are found in the broader economy. This essay shall concentrate on identifying and evaluating the internal and external factors that affect Chipinge Banana Company. Chipinge Banana Company is a company that is devoted to the production of bananas for sale to the local and international market. It sells its bananas in Zimbabwe, as well as to countries such as Zambia and South Africa. This company has no any other businesses which it does. It is a well known company that operates in Zimbabwe. The following table shows the results of the swot analysis carried on this company. The writer has selected this company because he currently works in it and has a very good understanding of its operations. Strengths • There is a strong team spirit in management • There is good infrastructure • Clearly established administrative system • There if flat piece of land • There is high morale among employees • There are open lines of communication • Employee have good attitudes...
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...Setting and Achieving Goals The process of strategic planning in an organization is imperative to ensure the survival and growth of an organization. Strategic planning helps to analyze the environment and other factors that might affect the smooth running of an organization. It also tries to rectify any issues in the organization that may cause it to fail and can give the organization a competitive advantage. According to an article in Public Relation’s Tactics “A plan’s design should be dictated by the organization.” (Newsome, 2008, p. 16) In undergoing the process of strategic planning two sub-processes come into play which are namely BSTEP analyses and SWOT analyses, and these two make up strategic planning. PEST (Political, Economic, Social, Technological)("PEST," 1999-2010) analyses management will analyzing the companies industry paying particular attention to company goals and whether achieving goals set is viable for that industry. Management will also monitor competitor’s behaviors and compare standards of outputs as to competitors, to ensure that standards being used are better than those of competitor companies. This will ensure the organization grows because the organization will constantly keep their rivals under check .It also promotes alertness and competition thus driving them to produce better products and or services. PEST also pays attention to the socio-cultural side of their market which is a key step in the growth and survival of an organization...
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...A SWOT Analysis view of the software development industry Georgios Kormaris Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands gkormari@cs.uu.nl WWW home page: http://www.cs.uu.nl/ Introduction I n the past twenty to thirty years many changes and developments have taken place in the software industry which started off during the 1960s mainly in the United States of America and experienced a revolutionary boom since the 1980s, Steinmueller, (1995). There are many different ways and methods of developing software and planning the strategy of a software development company, as we can derive from many recent research projects. Most of these projects are usually concerned with the way that software is developed and not with the way that the strategy of the company as a whole is planned, Cusumano, MacCormack, Kemerer, & Crandall, (2003). Another important factor is which techniques and methods are used to analyze company’s environment and how the strategy is formulated and implemented. In this paper we analyze a popular method for strategic planning which has been mostly used for product portfolio planning and strategic planning on an abstract level, as stated in a research paper by Houben, Lenie, & Vanhoof, (1999). We will focus our interest in the software industry and base our research on the case study of the Austrian software industry as it is presented by Bernroider, (2002). Additionally, certain guidelines are...
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...a fight you need to train. Even if your strengths is bigger than the opponent that does mean the opponent won’t obtain that strength one day. This is why you always need to work on your strengths to get better and better. A lot of companies tend to fail in increasing their strength more. One techniques that business tend to utilize is the SWOT Analysis. According to Kimmons, Ronald SWOT analysis is a representation of a business's competitive capabilities in a given market, breaking down its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in an easily understandable way. One thing that make the SWOT Analysis particularly powerful is that with a little thought, it can help you uncover opportunities that you are well-placed to exploit. And by understanding the weaknesses of your business, you can manage and eliminate threats that would otherwise catch you unawares. More than this, by looking at yourself and your competitors using the SWOT framework, you can start to craft a strategy that helps you distinguish yourself from your competitors, so that you can compete successfully in your market. Before making an analysis from your SWOT Analysis, it is better to find out what are your internal and external factors. All businesses owner should keep track of any factors that can have an impact on their business. According to Marilyn Lindblad, the best thing about internal factors is that you can control many of them. As for External factors, they are all those things that are...
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...BADM 320 Administrative Problem Solving Dr. Edmund Strategy Mission Statement: Formal Business Statement of Aims. A formal document that states the aims of a company or organization. Vision: The ability to anticipate possible future events and developments. Ability to think ahead. The ability to envision possible future problems or obstacles. the act of looking forward. An observation or measurement made looking forward. the making of a statement or forming of an opinion about what will happen in the future. Executive Summary: A statement (summary: a shortened version of something that has been said or written, containing only the main points) by the Senior Management in a company or organization, whose job it is to make and implement major decisions. A committee or group in a political organization that makes decisions and has the authority to implement them. Responsible for or relating to the making and implementing of general decisions in a company, organization, or government. Objectives Goals Strategies Tactics Objectives: based on facts rather than thoughts or opinions a goal or purpose. free of any bias or prejudice caused by personal feelings. Goals: Aim something that somebody wants to achieve. Target Area. Strategy: a carefully devised plan of action to achieve a goal, or the art of developing or carrying out such a plan. Tactic: Means to a goal; a method used or a course of action followed in order to achieve an immediate...
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...In recent decades, many companies has used SWOT and PEST analysis as useful techniques to identify its status and its environmental influences. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats; PESTLE stands for Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental. This essay will mainly focus on the similarities and differences between a SWOT analysis and a PEST analysis and elaborate the reason why a company can use a PEST analysis. Some advantages and disadvantages of using these two analyses are very similar. For example, people take these two analyses as simple framework which enable organisations to recognise its opportunities and entirely exploit its resources. SWOT analysis and PEST analysis also need people to be involved to acquire multiple perspective since one person’s view could be insufficient. However, both analyses require appropriate sources of information and it could be costly and time consuming and the data is possibly based on assumptions. Differences of these two analysis could be its objective. A PEST analysis mainly focus on measuring a market; a SWOT analysis focus on measuring a business project or idea. For example, PEST analysis will only identify the external factors such as current economy, unemployment rate, national election and population's growth rate. On the other hand, SWOT analysis mainly analyze both internal and external factors such as unique resources which companies have, weaknesses, government policy...
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...information and do the analyses as follows: 1. Identify strategic issues or problems appear in organization’s current situation. 2. Analyze a company's internal and external environment and identify strategic long-term direction, its resources and competitive capabilities for crafting an appropriate strategy. You can analyze the strategic audit by analyzing the company’s internal and external forces as suggested below:Internal Forces: a) Company’s name b) Company’s type and the industry c) Vision, Mission, Objectives and Strategies – You are required to analyze a vision, mission and objectives of the organization and please discuss whether these statements fit with company’s stated strategies. d) The list of BOD e) The list of Top Management Team f) Organizational Structure – Please discuss the type of structure – is it relevant with current business operation? External Forces: a) Please analyze PESTE (Politic, Economy, Social-cultural, Technology, ecology which indirectly influence the related industry. b) Please analyze 5 Forces by Michael Porter. 3. Propose the best strategy/ strategic options/ recommendations to the management to strengthen the company’s competitive position and future strategic and financial performance. * You are suggested to use ant strategic tools (e.g. SWOT and TOWS analysis) in order to analyze the best strategy/ strategic options/ recommendations...
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...other companies should try and emulate to be, which is a great idea because there is no cost for the books that they acquire, and at the same time turn around and make a positive impression on the earths environment and multiple communities around the world. They have taken their love for books and reading and found a way to be environmentally conscious while still creating a successful company that makes profits and bring literacy to people all over the world. Better World Books make many smart moves as a business; they invest well, and waste not. I believe that Better World Books have an ideal business blueprint that many companies can model and be financially successful while still being conscious about how you do business. 2. Analyze the ways in which BWB strives to achieve a triple bottom line. Is this business model sustainable in the long term? Why or why not? Better world books have achieved the triple bottom line approach; they have made a conscious effort to achieve a social, enviromental, and economic sustainability. It directly donated books and gave financial support to literacy initiatives worldwide. Moreover, a percentage of each sale was given separately to the individuals, libraries, or colleges as well as literacy partners chosen by them. BWB did not advertise in the media about collecting and selling...
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...years. From there, an appropriate course of action is determined and implemented to attain the company's goals and objectives. Planning is an unending course of action. There may be sudden strategies, required to be implemented during a crisis. There are external factors that constantly affect a company, both positively and negatively. Depending on the conditions, a company may have to alter its course of action regarding certain goals. This kind of preparation or arrangement is known as strategic planning. In strategic planning, management analyzes internal and external factors, that may affect the company, its objectives and goals. One of the primary tools of strategic planning is the use of SWOT Analysis, a technique that helps organizations find their strengths and weaknesses, identify areas of opportunity and take preventive measures against threats arising from both internal and external environmental factors. The SWOT matrix can be understood by dividing it's cells according to what they represent for the organization. Internal environment stands for the factors affecting performance within the company itself, this could be both positive or negative in nature. External environment is the outside world, factors beyond the control of the organization which may affect it in positive or negative ways. Strengths are the things that the organization does well, its core competency in production, sales, innovation and so on. Weaknesses are the areas which need improvement...
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...Chapter 1 2. Define business profiles, processes, and modeling. 1. Analyze the historical (or simulation) data to determine where improvements are needed. If the evaluation is satisfactory, stop. 2. From the data, come up with an idea for improvement. 3. Create a simulation scenario incorporating that idea and run a simulation. 4. Evaluate the results to determine whether it has resulted in improvement and repeat the cycle. 5. How do companies use EDI? What are some advantages of using XML? Initially, electronic commerce between two companies used a data sharing arrangement called electronic data interchange (EDI). EDI enabled computer-to-computer data transfer, usually over private telecommunications lines. Firms used EDI to plan production, adjust inventory levels, or stock up on raw materials using data from another company’s information system. 6. Describe five types of information systems, and give an example of each. Office Information Systems is an information system that uses hardware, software and networks to enhance work flow and facilitate communications among employees. Transaction Processing Systems is an information system that captures and processes data generated during an organization’s day-to-day transactions. A transaction is a business activity such as a deposit, payment, order or reservation. Management Information Systems is an information system that generates accurate, timely and organized information so managers and other...
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