You have recently been appointed as HR advisor for National Office Supplies, a provider of stationery and office furniture for businesses throughout the UK. Whilst based at their headquarters in Hertfordshire, part of your role is to visit the regional sales offices and to audit their HR processes and practices. The company has experienced sound levels of growth in recent years and has experienced growth in turnover of one-third in the last three years. Prior to your appointment, the HR manager worked
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MEMORANDUM TO: All Employees FROM: Corporate Office DATE: March 10, 2009 SUBJECT: Recycling and Cost-saving Initiatives CC: Board of Directors In response to the rising cost of traditional energy sources, as well as our nation’s effort to find more renewable energy, our company will be implementing a number of cost-saving initiatives. These new practices will be in effect immediately at all divisions within the organization. The first change you will experience concerns
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30 Interview Questions You Can't Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info By HR World Editors In every job interview, the goal is to obtain important information while building a friendly rapport with the candidate. But some questions are just a little too friendly. Protect yourself and your company from legal trouble and embarassment by avoiding the wrong questions while still getting to the root of the concern behind the question. Read on for 30 ways to turn litigious questions
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Case Study Seven: Conducting performance appraisals at National Office Supplies You have recently been appointed as HR advisor for National Office Supplies, a provider of stationery and office furniture for businesses throughout the UK. Whilst based at their headquarters in Hertfordshire, part of your role is to visit the regional sales offices and to audit their HR processes and practices. The company has experienced sound levels of growth in recent years and has experienced growth in turnover
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ACME’s list of needs for the new satellite offices and setup for the main offices needed a long list of supplies that were costly. Each part focused on being able to expand and be cost effective. The parts were also supposed to help eliminate downtime. An example of this is centralized management which bans certain sites from being accessed, and only allowing work websites to be accessed. All of these parts will reduce the office’s downtime and ensure that the loss of important files won’t happen
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International company (Yandex) plans to relocate its office in St. Petersburg to a modern office building. Estimated required office space is 10,000 sq m (current leased space – 5,000 sq m). Imagine that you are their consultant and analytic that helps them to define what to do and how to relocate the office. Please offer the studies they should do for successful result. In order to make the best managerial decision we decided to choose 3 possible options: 1) The company stays at a current business-centre
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How would you classify the office superstore industry? Who are the competitors? What are the characteristics of this industry that lead to this conclusion? Today’s office superstore industry in the United States provides a convenient one-stop shopping experience for small businesses and individuals with home offices. The main competitors in the industry are Office Depot, Staples, and Office Max. All of them offer a variety of office supplies, as well as computers, office furniture and other business
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Australian Governments (COAG) hope to improve energy efficiency in the Australian economy? How will this affect the building industry? In 2009, retail buildings accounted for the largest share of energy consumption in commercial buildings with office buildings not far behind. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) states that the total energy consumption for all commercial buildings is expected to rise by 24% over the period 2009 to 2020. The COAG implemented a method to improve energy
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Currently Riordan Manufacturing has several different offices and each office is using a different type of system, but there is not a central system that monitors each of the satellite offices and their production. To assist Riordan become more efficient, they will need to implement a central system to monitor both individual and overlapping system usage. They should create a Data Center in the corporate office that monitors all of the current systems in place. This will allow Riordan Manufacturing
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Malaysian Minister for performance, Sri Idris Jala called on Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in his office today on 10 PerformAnce has become key driver of success in democracy. PLM-N government got the mandate on account of its performance in Punjab. Now, we want Federal Government to be high performance driven to beat the challenges Pakistan faces. Pakistan can learn a lot from Malaysians experience of performance delivering and monitoring in public sector
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