...Barriers/obstacles There are many obstacles in handling Generation Y especially based on their attitude. Generation Y is a generation that is challenging and hard to handle as it can change today’s corporate culture. There are different attitudes and work habits that happen with the shift of the younger employment force from Generation X to Generation Y. Generation Y are less committed to stay with the same company. This is because Generation Y is a generation that is money oriented. When they get higher offer with higher pay of salary, they will easily change their job to the new company. Besides that, Generation Y is not a loyal worker because when he or she feels bored working in the company, he or she will try to move to other company which seems more attractive for them. It shows that this is not easy to handle a worker who loves to do job hopping. Other than that, they do not want to take challenge. They need easy work rather than thinking about their work. When tasks given become difficult and complicated, they feel depress and it cause their work is less efficient and become less committed. Like the example from the interviewee, they like to do less. This can be seen when their workday is over, they will back home quickly than to stay and complete the work in earnest. There is a survey done by Kendal Tarranet Worldwide which states that; “Generation Y graduates are likely to be more loyal to their lifestyle than their...
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...Munich Paris Montreal Taipei Toronto Amsterdam Delhi Cape Town Mexico City Sao Paulo Singapore Tokyo G O N T E N TS Preface 23 Acknowledgments PART ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 27 28 28 30 Introduction to Human Resource Management What Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated, "Talent Management" Approach to Managing Human Resources 45 They Manage Ethics 45 They Manage Employee Engagement 45 They Measure HR Performance and Results 45 They Use Evidence-Based Human Resource Management They Add Value 46 They Have New Competencies 47 HR Certification...
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...Munich Paris Montreal Taipei Toronto Amsterdam Delhi Cape Town Mexico City Sao Paulo Singapore Tokyo G O N T E N TS Preface 23 Acknowledgments PART ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 27 28 28 30 Introduction to Human Resource Management What Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated, "Talent Management" Approach to Managing Human Resources 45 They Manage Ethics 45 They Manage Employee Engagement 45 They Measure HR Performance and Results 45 They Use Evidence-Based Human Resource Management They Add Value 46 They Have New Competencies 47 HR Certification...
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...l t l C e J r l 3 . l l Boston Columbus Indianapolis Dubai New York London Sydney San Francisco Madrid Milan Seoul Upper Saddle River Munich Paris Montreal Taipei Toronto Amsterdam Delhi Cape Town Mexico City Sao Paulo Hong Kong Singapore Tokyo Contents Preface xxiii Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction to Human Resource Management 2 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? What Is Human Resource Management? 4 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? 5 Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 6 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 6 Human Resource Manager's Duties 7 New Approaches to Organizing HR 9 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example 9 Moving from Line Manager to HR Manager 10 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 10 Globalization and Competition Trends 11 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation 12 Technological Trends 12 Trends in the Nature of Work 13 Workforce and Demographic Trends 14 Economic Challenges and Trends 15 IMPORTANT TRENDS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 16 The New Human Resource Managers 16 Strategic Human Resource Management 18 High-Performance Work Systems 19 Evidence-Based Human Resource Management 19 19 • EVIDENCE-BASED HR: Why Should You Be Evidence-Based? Managing Ethics 20 HR Certification 20 THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 21 The Basic Themes and Features 21 CHAPTER CONTENTS OVERVIEW 22 Part 1: Introduction 22 Part 2: Recruitment and Placement...
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...basis . Additionally such thing as employee tenure may be having an effect on training cost , if hotel paris employees have been there for many year , they may require less training than the employees of a hotel which has high turnover . Lisa needs to analyze the need for training more thoroughly Q Ans . Working as a housekeeper at a hotel is not as easy as it seems. One has so much to learn and to get right from the start in order that guests entering their room in the evening do not feel that the room has been used before, but instead feel that they are the first to enter the room and sleep on their bed sheets. Housekeeping is involved in using many different products and equipment and the work can be physically demanding. Staff can be involved with customers who have not left their room for the day, customers checking in early or late, guests on stay over who have come back to their room early so they can have a lie down. Translating Strategy into HR Policies & Practices Case The Hotel Paris CaseThe New Training Program The Hotel Paris’s competitive strategy is “To use superior guest service to differentiate the Hotel Paris properties, and to thereby increase the length of stay and return rate of guests, and thus boost revenues and profitability.” HR manager Lisa Cruz must now formulate functional policies and activities that support this competitive strategy by eliciting the required employee...
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...Translating Strategy Into Hr Policies and Practices Case Delmi Cornelio Human Resource Management TRANSLATING STRATEGY INTO HR POLICIES AND PRACTICES CASE: The Hotel Paris 1. A front desk work sample test could include the following: a. The speed of checking-in or checking-out a guest. How fast the candidate checks in and checks out a guest. b. Welcoming guests politely. c. The quality of calls that are answered. Are calls answered with greetings according to the time of the day? Are calls answered with a friendly tone and attitude? d. Answering questions to guest in a very professional manner. This includes having great knowledge of the region and main attractions within the local area. e. Capability to handle any reservation conflicts and find the best solution. f. Ability to handle dissatisfied guest. g. Making use of the reservation system. 2. Two possible personality test questions. Lisa is looking for high-morale, patient and people-oriented employees, so she might consider using Myer Briggs personality test type of questions. The following 2 questions could be considered on the test. a. Do you find it easy to interact with strangers? b. Do you find it difficult to keep a cool head in conflict situations? 3. Other test that I would suggest to Lisa are the following: a. Using IQ assessments will demonstrate candidate’s ability to thinks quickly and understand what they read. This intelligence test will be helpful...
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...Delmi Cornelio Human Resource Management TRANSLATING STRATEGY INTO HR POLICIES AND PRACTICES CASE: The Hotel Paris 1. A front desk work sample test could include the following: a. The speed of checking-in or checking-out a guest. How fast the candidate checks in and checks out a guest. b. Welcoming guests politely. c. The quality of calls that are answered. Are calls answered with greetings according to the time of the day? Are calls answered with a friendly tone and attitude? d. Answering questions to guest in a very professional manner. This includes having great knowledge of the region and main attractions within the local area. e. Capability to handle any reservation conflicts and find the best solution. f. Ability to handle dissatisfied guest. g. Making use of the reservation system. 2. Two possible personality test questions. Lisa is looking for high-morale, patient and people-oriented employees, so she might consider using Myer Briggs personality test type of questions. The following 2 questions could be considered on the test. a. Do you find it easy to interact with strangers? b. Do you find it difficult to keep a cool head in conflict situations? 3. Other test that I would suggest to Lisa are the following: a. Using IQ assessments will demonstrate candidate’s ability to thinks quickly and understand what they read. This intelligence test will be helpful in finding candidates that will respond appropriate...
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... RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT | | |CHAPTER | |T Five | |Personnel Planning |5 | | |and Recruiting | | | |Lecture Outline | | | |Workforce Planning and Forecasting |In Brief: This chapter explains the process of | | |Strategy and Workforce Planning |forecasting personnel requirements, discusses | | |Forecasting Personnel Needs (Labor Demand) |the pros and cons of methods used for recruiting| | |Improving Productivity Through HRIS |job candidates, describes how to develop an | | |Forecasting the Supply of Inside Candidates |application form, and explains how to use | | |Forecasting the Supply of Outside Candidates |application forms to predict job performance. | | |Talent Mgmt. & Predictive Workforce Monitoring...
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...PART THREE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT | | | | | | |CHAPTER | |T Eight | | | | | | | | | |Training and Developing |8 | | |Employees | | | |Lecture Outline | | | |Strategic Overview |In Brief: This chapter is devoted to the issue of | | |Orienting Employees |ongoing training and development of employees. Needs | | |The Training Process |analysis, techniques, purposes, and evaluation are...
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...Handbook of Management Accounting Research Volume 3 Edited by CHRISTOPHER S. CHAPMAN Imperial College London, UK ANTHONY G. HOPWOOD University of Oxford, UK MICHAEL D. SHIELDS Michigan State University, USA AMSTERDAM – BOSTON – HEIDELBERG – LONDON – NEW YORK – OXFORD PARIS – SAN DIEGO – SAN FRANCISCO – SINGAPORE – SYDNEY – TOKYO Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK First edition 2009 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone ( 44) (0) 1865 843830; fax ( 44) (0) 1865 853333; email: permissions@elsevier.com. Alternatively visit the Science and Technology Books website at www.elsevierdirect.com/rights for further information Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for...
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...Economic Environment The Legal Environment The Technological Environment Chapter Discussion Questions Application Exercises Experiential Exercise End-of-Chapter Case Study: Under Pressure, Dubai Company Drops Port Deal Additional Cases: India: The Employment Black Hole? Mecca Cola Student Stimulation Questions and Exercises Opening Profile: India Becoming a Crucial Cog in Machine at I.B.M. The opening profile reports on the growing importance of India as a source of low-cost services in the IT market. The Indian labor market is attractive not only due to its low wages, but also because of the scientific and managerial talent found in the country. IBM’s Indian facility in Bangalore is now the company’s second largest worldwide operation. While IBM has laid off thousands of workers in the United States, its Indian operation has greatly increased employment. Some of IBM’s competitors have also begun to move their operations to India. The opening profile raises the question of the strategic importance of India to IBM and other companies. Country Information: India. Interesting information on Indian business and culture can be seen at: http://www.stylusinc.com/business/india/business_india.htm I. The Global Business Environment A. Global management is the process of developing strategies, designing and operating systems, and working with people around...
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...Innovative Business Practices Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era, Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou This book first published 2013 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2013 by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4604-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4604-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Knowledge Hybridization: An Innovative Business Practices to Overcome the Limits of the Top-Down Transfers within a Multinational Corporation Hela Chebbi, Dorra Yahiaoui, Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 17 Rethinking Talent Management in Organizations: Towards a Boundary-less Model Carrie Foster, Neil Moore and Peter Stokes Chapter Three .......
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...Accounting: Professor | | | | | | | Five-Year Summary of Development Activities Supporting AQ or PQ Status | | Name | Highest Earned Degree & Year | Date of First Appointment to the School | Percent of Time Dedicated to the School's Mission | Acad Qual | Prof Qual | Other | Intell. Contrib. | Prof. Exper. | Consult. | Prof. Develop. | Other Prof. Activities | NormalProfessionalResponsibilities | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Som Bhattacharya | Ph D, 1994 | | 100.0 | YES | | | 12 (5) | Service: 0Work: 0 | 0 | 0 | Editor/Review: 6Other:13 | UG, GR, RES, SER and ADM | Intellectual Contributions (12) Hopwood, W., Bhattacharya, S., Premuroso, R. (2011). Tasteless Tea Company: A Comprehensive Revenue Transaction Cycle Case Study. Issues in Accounting Education, 26(1), 163-179. Cao, J., Nicolaou, A., Bhattacharya, S. (2010). A Longitudinal Study of market and Firm Level Factors Influencing ERP Systems’ Adoption and Post-Implementation System Enhancement Options. 7th Annual International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting, and Logistics. Rhodos: ICESAL. Behara, R., Bhattacharya, S. (2008). DNA of a successful BPO. Journal of Service Science, 1(1), 111-118. Premuroso, R., Bhattacharya, S. (2008). Do Early Members of XBRL International Signal Superior Corporate Governance and Future Operating Performance? International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 9(1), 1-20. Nicolaou, A., Bhattacharya, S. (2008). Post-Implementation Quality and...
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...Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions This page intentionally left blank Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions Edited by Madanmohan Rao AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Elsevier Butterworth–Heinemann 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com.uk. You may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting “Customer Support” and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Recognizing the importance of preserving what has been written, Elsevier prints its books on acid-free paper whenever possible. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rao, Madanmohan. KM tools and techniques : practitioners and experts evaluate KM solutions / Madanmohan Rao. p. cm. Includes...
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