...Trends in the Workplace Trends in the Workplace There are numerous important trends in the workplace that have considerable influences on organizations. It is up to HR specialists to help organizations respond to the ever shifting trends, conform to guidelines on the federal and state levels, and manage workplace flexibility. This means that it is imperative that human resource specialists understand the developing global environment. This paper will discuss the main functional areas of Human Resource Management and explore the manner in which each function donates to the overall presentation of an organization. Next, federal equal employment opportunity laws will be surveyed, and the primary manner in which each law affects fair employment practices within the business will be suggested. Then, the primary manner in which the three trends affecting organizations today (aging workforce, diversity, and skills deficiencies in the workplace) has affected the organization where the author currently works or has worked in the past will be examined. Finally, two ways that the organization where the author works or has worked in the past might respond to the need to be flexible will be explored. Key Functional Areas There are five key functional areas associated with Human Resource Management. Those key functional areas are staffing, total rewards, employee development, employee relations, and safety. Staffing consists of determining personnel needs, recruiting possible employees...
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...Characteristics of A Place Called Home Kimberly Rodgers BSHS/461 December 21, 2011 Instructor: Therese Schmoll Inside A Place Called Home The writer of this paper had an opportunity to commit her time and dedication to do field experience at an organization named A Place Called Home. In this paper the writer will explain the characteristics and environments of this organization. It will show how the organization is governed and who the key stakeholders are. It will describe the different strategies the organization uses for public relations, and give details on certain trends this organization has, and how well they are managing the trends. A Place Called Home also known as APCH is a local non-profit organization that provides the at risk youth a chance to be in a positive environment. APCH has a very secured and welcoming family ambiance that strives to offer a variety of services to those in need within the community. They are located in South Central Los Angeles and are very well supported within the community around them. The mission and vision of APCH is specially designed to help the community and is very achievable. Their mission states, “A Place Called Home is a safe haven in South Central Los Angeles where underserved youth are empowered to take ownership of the quality and direction of their lives through programs in education, arts, and well-being; and are inspired to make a meaningful difference in their community and the world.” ("A Place Called Home"...
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...Business Communication Trends Paper LaTonya Beeler COM 285 November 21, 2010 Annie Moats Communication is the foundation of a successful business. High-quality communication is the quintessence of a business because organizations involve people. The people in organizations need to communicate to hire, manage, train, and promote products. Lack of communication can be very costly and time consuming to an organization. The communication of a business can determine the success or failure of a business. The current trends in the workplace are changing allowing employees to gain easy access to improve work performance. The following paper will explain the role business communication play in my daily work activities, the trends in the workplace and what message types are results of these trends. “Communication takes many forms: face-to-face or phone conversations, informal meetings, presentations, e-mail messages, letters, memos, reports, blogs, text messaging and Web sites” (Locker & Kienzler, 2008, p. 5). I work in the local school district in the city I live in. I am a substitute, so I work when the schools in the district need an extra body in the classroom. I do not have to do much written communication however; I do have to communicate orally with the teacher, students, and human resources at the district office. Whenever there is an assignment open either someone at the district will call to ask if I want to accept the assignment or someone at the district will input...
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...Criminal Justice Trends Erin Berger CJA/394 Monday, March 5, 2012 University of Phoenix, Troy Hokanson Criminal Justice Trends The criminal justice system is set within our society as a means to protect those individuals that are innocent from those who intend to harm him or her. The purpose of a law is meant to protect a person from a person who could intentionally or potentially harm them. The two, work together to try and meet with the same results, to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. We as a society are full of people whom choose to continuously evolve. We are changing and as we change our perceptions change and as our perceptions change our society changes. This is responsible for the trends that take place in our society and inevitably within our criminal justice system. In this paper we will endeavor to assess previous, current, and imminent trends in the boundary amongst mechanisms of the criminal justice system and criminal justice associations with adjacent society. In our assessment we will also attempt to evaluate and identify recent and future trends and contemporary issues that affect our criminal justice system and try to determine the value of the criminal justice system in a changing society (University of Phoenix Student website, 2010). Many have viewed the criminal justice system as simply presenting a harsh existence. Some have viewed it as being too lax. There are many individuals that could agree that at one...
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...be some important changes to the demographic trends within the workforce. It is predicted that the labor force will continue to diversify because immigration accounts for most of the population growth. It is predicted that by 2020 non-Hispanic workers will make up only 68 percent of the workforce (Lerman & Schmidt, page 4). One issued Human Resource management will face as the labor force diversifies is finding talented, educated employees. This is because the education levels within the Hispanic community are below high school level. As of 1997 only fifty-five percent of the Hispanic population over the age of 25 had completed high school (Lerman & Schmidt, page 4). Because Hispanics have a growing presence in the job market, their lack of education will lower the educational base of the labor force. Thus the human resource departments will have to change their strategy on finding the skill needed to perform the jobs they need to fill. Another issue that Human Resource departments need to be aware of is the rise of women in the work place. Whereas this is a good thing, organizations need to consider that the rise of women in the work force will bring other issues. The likely hood that the women will have young children is high, or it is likely women already in the work place well get married and start a family. If organizations want to attract and keep women they will need to meet their needs. Such things as flexible work schedule, or onsite daycare might be a good...
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...Purpose HCL Technologies provide a range of outsourcing services, business process outsourcing, and infrastructure services. The purpose of this paper is analyze trends and economic forces that impact changes in the global marketplace, analyze the impact of market trends in driving innovations in organizational, structure, culture, and process, and also to analyze leadership in relation to the effectiveness of general management planning and decision making. Majority of my information will come from HCL Technologies case study with Nayar’s insights about the subject. Analyze trends and economic forces that impact changes in the global marketplace. The product that HCL Technologies sells is a service that customers use to make their business better. Staying with the latest trends is very critical in a service based business like HCL Technologies. The first trend I would like to talk about is Technology trends. Technology trends can drive innovation and influence decision making in the IT service industry. According to Hickman (2010)" Developments in technology lead to new products and services and improve how they are produced and delivered to the end user. Innovations can create entirely new industries and alter the boundaries of existing industries." A future trend that will spread rapidly in the IT industry will be Cloud Computing. There will soon be away a business can obtain and maintain software, hardware, and computing capacity. According to the Nayar Case study...
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...This surge is justified in part by the ease through which social media users can interact instantaneously without the necessity to be in the same place, and in part by the fact that users enjoy themselves by using social networks on an extensive basis, as recognized by many experts. Online communities are made able to share content, comments and opinions directly,...
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...world of social changes. Let me start with this, technological things come about over years, but it’s simple, technological things only come about from collaborating. In today’s time, it is my opinion to show that technology in a work place comes directly from sociological impacts in our society today. It’s easy, collaboration, sociological changes in time and trends of historical data in the world today are key results in technological advances. Overload can be defines as, “to much information in a processing system, or a unit of measure that exceeds its capacity.” Sociology is the study and classifications of human societies. So now I think, if I put these two together what do I get? In this paper I will discuss my position that sociological changes affect how efficiency works in a work place. Collaboration From the beginning of time, think about how things came about. How did we start our own language? How did we build streets? How did we design computers, car building machines, and create robots that work in pharmacies. It’s simple it’s a little called collaboration. Collaboration can be defined, “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.” In today’s time collaboration is the key to any effective work place. To develop systems, many engineers come together and collectively come up with an idea to create a system. Lets looks at a system that the United States Air Force has called ADS. ADS is also known as the automated disbursing system...
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...| Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation | Stephanie Conley | CJA/394 | | 2/20/2012 | Alan Hazen | Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation The criminal justice system is set within our society for a way to protect individuals from people that are trying to harm him or her. The reasons for these laws are to protect all persons from others who could intentionally or potentially do harm them. The two works together to try to meet the same end result to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Society has people who continuously choose to evolve. Society continues to change and as well as their perceptions, this is responsible for the trends that take place in our society and within the criminal justice system. This paper will attempt to assess the previous, current, and imminent trends in the criminal justice system. This paper will attempt to evaluate and identify recent and future trends, and contemporary issues that the criminal justice system is faced with. The criminal justice system is viewed as a system that presents a harsh existence. Some view the system to be too lenient. There are many people who believe that the criminal justice system has been judged to be one sided. Criminal justice has had trends that have taken place for many centuries. A major issue within the criminal justice system which has had many trends and this is capital punishment. Capital punishment has always existed in the criminal justice system. And it was...
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...education trends -- those lists of the 10 or 12 or 15 things to watch, whether they be emerging technologies, or new regulations, or looming anxieties about increased competition, financial challenges, the future of tenure, and so on. What’s striking about so many of the observable trends in higher education today is the way in which they seem to be fueled by the same motivating force: the desire for jobs. The pursuit of jobs or job readiness or real-world work experience seems to be the trend of trends. For some within the higher education community, this focus on jobs will undoubtedly be viewed as reductivist, relegating higher education institutions to the same status as factories churning out “product” – skilled labor, in this case. “Just wait,” this constituency may well caution, “this vocational turn will be accompanied by a hail of unintended consequences: a weakened citizenry, the abandonment of the arts, and the valorization of rote learning in place of critical thinking.” For others, the increased attention to graduate employability and work readiness will signal what they might regard as a long-overdue pivot to a more realistic perspective on the function of higher education within a knowledge economy. “Look,” this group of stakeholders might well argue, “preparing future professionals to communicate effectively, arrive at work on time, take problems to managers only when warranted, and possess some familiarity with the tools of the contemporary work place – whether...
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...Week One – Business Communication Trends Jessica Jackson COM/285 Timothy Smith University of Phoenix May 24, 2012 Business Communication Trends I will be discussing different business communication trends and the role that business communication plays in my everyday life. I will also explain how it helps me manage my daily work activities and what trends I have encountered in my current or previous workplaces. Even with continuing advancements in technology, it is very important for an individual to encompass effective communication skills. In the business world individuals must be able communicate with their peers both verbally and nonverbally. Despite some claims that may dispute its importance, a person’s success relies heavily on his or her ability to hold a conversation. “Good communication is worth every minute it takes and every penny it costs” (Locker & Kienzler, 2008, p. 9). People communicate for one reason or another daily. There are many forms of communication that are both verbal and nonverbal. Verbal communication is anything that uses words. This form of communication can take place; face-to-face, over the phone, at informal meetings, during presentations, e-mail messages, letters, memos, reports, blogs, text messages, and web sites. Nonverbal communication, on the other hand, does not use words. One aspect I learned early in my career search was the advantage to speaking properly during interviews. Employers not only look...
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...Executive Summary The U.S. Soup Market has been facing a decline in its profitability and sales over several years. The newly emerging consumer trends place higher importance in health, diet, and convenience, and products that benefited these areas are being popularized. Even as the biggest company in the soup industry, Brannigan Foods has been facing a fall in its sales, market share, and profitability in the soup division for the last three years. The loss in market share is likely due to Brannigan’s lack of adjustment to the new consumer trends that have been arising, which many other companies have been able to do. Many small companies have been offering innovative product lines in the soup market which have paralleled the consumer trends and therefore have been receiving positive result, which explains Brannigan’s market share decrease in the industry. Furthermore, there have been increases of Private Labels offered by retailers, which have also been taking Brannigan’s market share along with its shelf space in retail stores. Some of these new products include premade “deli soups”, dry-mix soups, and microwaved packaged soups. Bert Clark, VP and GM of Brannigan Foods’ Soup Division, is to come up with a solution to reverse falling profitability and increase profits by 3% by the next year. After reviewing the suggestions made by his four key managers, the recommendation is that Clark...
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...Current trends in business communication Sharon D. Ledford COM/285 September 20, 2011 Daniel Smith Current trends in business communication “As technology is advancing, so is the world of business communication. A long time ago, businesspeople wrote letters to their clients and meetings held in person. Today’s world of business communication has a much different look. Devices such as personal digital -assistant, and teleconferences are meant to increase productivity and means of communicating with customers. E-mails had become a preferred means of communicating to coworkers and your clients.” “Social media networking officially has crossed over from used socially to an important and viable method of customer relationship management. Using tools like Facebook, blogs, public forums, and wiki sites, businesses can better know how to attract and keep their customers. Customer relationship management begins with acquiring new customers through contact management, sales, and customer satisfaction. Enhancing customer relationship management occurs through excellent business communication and use of customer service tools such as product experts and ease of purchasing. Retaining customers occurs through loyalty and reward. Customer relationship management or databases can notify the business owner of long- term clients and create the ability to receive customers through promotional measures. Streamlining every phase of business communication will always...
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...assets. (Armstrong 2006). It is also defined as the function responsible for establishing integrated personnel policies to support organizational strategy. Cole (2000). It is responsible for attracting, recruiting, and selecting, training and rewarding employees. In Zimbabwe Human resources management has been affected by a number of trends which are political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal, demographic and health related. Political Trends Human resources management has been affected by different political ideologies from those of the western world. Before the introduction of indigenization policy, investors were more than willing to invest in Zimbabwe. In 2008 the indigenization policy was introduced which stated that if a foreigner invests in the country he/she should partner with a local investor and the ratio of share should be 49:51 in which the local person gets higher or bigger share. (ZIMASSET 2013). On its introduction, investors lost confidence in doing business in the country as a result most companies that are foreign owned have been forced to close resulting in increase in unemployment levels. Economical Trends The Zimbabwean economy has been affected by brain drain since 2007. Brain drain being the loss of skilled, intellectual and technical labour through the movement of such labour to more favourable geographic, economic, or professional environments. Millions of Zimbabweans have left the country and those that are remaining are unemployed...
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...”(Noe/Hollenbeck/Gerhart/Wright) This paper will discuss the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups, analyze how you would interpret the values that Hershey embraces, the trends that may impact Hershey the most, and what the effects that mentoring could have on integrating values into the Hershey culture. The redesign of Hershey’s performance management system Hershey’s four identified values demonstrate that the organization has a plan of action in place in order to meet and exceed the expectations of the employees. It is imperative for any organization, but more importantly those that are large corporations to have a standard guideline of what employees should expect. Hershey’s new redesign plan is set to appeal towards the younger generation. Although this appears like a great idea, how does this assist in appealing to the more tenured crowd? I would recommend Hershey to take a survey or suggestion from all employees on how they would like to see their performance management tracked. The performance management tool should be able to direct financial gain, motivate the workforce, and improve management control. The goals that have been established should be attainable for all employees and if not, a method should be in place in order to list what other...
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