Employee Article Reviews Samples For Students

In the article Chicago Schools’ Financial Controls Assailed in Report, Caroline Porter discusses how mismanagement and inefficiencies are draining the cash strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This is evidenced by the financial report that had been released for the fiscal year 2013. According to the Chicago Board of Education’s oversight office, there were a number of deficiencies in internal controls and a number of cases of detrimental employee misconduct. In a particular instance, the report showed how a former technological worker had been suspected of embezzling more than $400000 from the schools. Consequently, Porter set out to identify the failure of management ...

The belief by the Chinese that an eclipse emanated from dragons that devoured around the sun made the Lydian and Medes soldiers declare peace between their communities. The members of the two communities had an obligation to bang pots and drums in order to startle the dragons. The decision of the congressional leaders on to solve the crisis between the tribes left the citizens muddled. The men in power had to make a choice so that the community members could follow. The economy of the community was negatively affected by the crisis, which affected the Lydian and Medes community. Consequently, ...

Ethics is a part of philosophy that tries to examine the morality of action and behavior in the society. Codes of ethics are geared towards creating professionalism in the workplace. They make sure the work standards are not compromised in any way, and we differentiate what is right from wrong. Furthermore, they make sure the relationships at the workplace are maintained at the professional level and everyone conducts themselves responsibly. They also make sure the organization meets its promises to the client (both the writer and the reader) by running an efficient organization which plays by the rules. In case ...

1. Do you think Randy has sufficiently categorized his salespeople for motivational purposes? Why or why not? Is it practicable to provide non-financial incentives to motivate salespeople in each of the four career stage groups?

Categorization of salespeople always involves a trade-off between over-generalization and the practical applicability of these categories for HR strategy development. It is always possible to find additional sub-categories that reflect more precisely the peculiarities of the sales force of a firm or that capture individual needs of the employees. Thus, introducing a separate category for working mothers could help to address the needs of this group in a better way. However, extensive categorization would increase complexity of HR policies and would make it hard to develop and execute an HR strategy in an effective and cost-efficient way. Therefore, the decision of Randy Stuart ...

A. Theoretical Article Summary of Vijayalakshmi, V.; Bhattacharyya, S. (2012). Emotional Contagion and its Relevance to Individual Behavior and Organizational Processes: A Position Paper, Journal of Business & Psychology. 2012, 27 (3): 363-374. 12p.
1. Theory and Main Concepts
a) Theory
Emotional contagion and individual emotions are thought to correlate in a positive manner. Both of these aspects affect an individual’s functioning and behavior. In the article, the author collects various theories and data from past literature and tries to consolidate all the views about emotional contagion.
b) Diagram of Theory
For easy understanding, the author ...

Introduction

People engage themselves into employment in order to get compensation in monetary terms, and other benefits that come along with employment. Every organization aims at employing the most qualified employees creating a stiff competition in the corporate world. In addition, any employee would like to achieve higher levels of qualification in their careers in order to attract the attention of best paying companies. Human resource management is a global recognized part necessary in running of any organization. Compensation forms one of the most essential human resource tools used by companies in an effort to manage their employees. Compensation system of an ...

- I learnt that emotional intelligence is all about how people manage themselves and how people manage their relationships. There five skills that make one emotionally intelligent. The skills include self-awareness, which entails knowing how to make use of own feelings and listen to own self. Managing emotions involve knowing how to control ones emotions and tempers. Motivation, which allows one to stay, focused on the goals despite the setbacks. Empathy entails knowing how people speak to other human beings. Social relationships are another key skill of emotional intelligence. I learnt that emotional part of the brain is more ...

Article Review

The key message of the article is that the continued use of internet for social purposes during work hours has negative effects on people’s concentration at workplaces. According to the author, though internet has become an essential tool for carrying out research and other functions such as emailing, in most cases internet slows peoples’ ability to work optimally because workers who have access to internet end up visiting social sites and performing personal tasks. Because of technology and internet, most people have lost their desire for information and have acquired considerable desire for social connection.
Further, the ...

- Employment related Laws
Laws reflect dominant values of the society, particularly labor laws, and they are made to prevent injustice of any kind to the members of the society. Various laws relating to employment are existing in the US, and they are at various levels such as local, state and federal. Laws of employment are intended to protect the rights of both employees and the employers equally. It is believed that compliance with the laws by every one, benefits the society as a whole.
The prominent employment related laws in the US are anti-discrimination laws to bring ...

Article review

Introduction
The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has ...

A journal article by Newman and Fisher entitled “Strategic Impact Merit Pay” was published in Compensation & Benefits Review in 1992. The authors devised an alternative approach to the pay for performance system called Strategic Impact Merit Pay (SIMP) in which employee behavior is considered in the calculation of compensation. The abstract is brief and concise, adequately presenting the argument of the paper.
The objective of the article was not clearly stated although it criticizes traditional merit pay systems to provide rationale for the creation of SIMP. A number of advantages of a SIMP plan were listed such as requisition ...

Leadership traits are a very important necessity in the present corporate environment. This review would focus on certain Organizational Behavior concepts in the article by Alan Murray by analyzing and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
In his article, Murray illustrates the five basic traits of leadership along with additional traits as identified in the Implicit Leadership Theory. For instance, Murray gives the examples of Lincoln and Socrates as leaders who possessed all the five basic leadership traits and fit into the ‘leadership prototype’ concept. As per Joan Collins, these leaders had the masculine (personal will) and ...

Human Resource Management

This article, written by Lisa Rein and William Branigin from the Washington Post, discusses a potentially severe lack of management in the supervision of work-from-home employees whose job is to review patent applications. The individual who broke the story let the Post know that the office “tolerates” employee abuses, later citing that the department often turned their heads in the face of these time and attendance issues when productivity was high. The culture in this office is a very relaxed one, mostly because managers and supervisors very rarely interact with their employees. This inevitably leads to a relaxed feeling of time and ...

Article summary: Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality

The main goal of the multi-level study conducted by Yoshida D.T. et al. (2013) was to assess how servant leadership influences employee creativity and team innovation simultaneously. Businesses often gain their competitive advantage through employees that come up with creative, innovative ideas and work as a team to implement them. However, although these factors are highly interdependent, prior researches only focused on either creativity or innovation. No fundamental attempts were made to study how certain leadership behaviors simultaneously affect these two aspects on different levels. Former researches examined how transformational leadership or leader-member relationship influenced employee creativity. As it was ...

According to ‘Guide to Management’ by Allan Murray from The Wall Street Journal, he identifies the leadership categorized under the main functions of management. He explains that leadership is not what one needs but what the people being led need. In this regard, it is expected that you put them first and dedicate your time to teach and lead them. It is from the time given that one receives. This aligns to the act of handling staff at their best hence getting a similar reciprocation. "Leadership is not like a suit you try it on, but rather something you adapt according ...

A typical fraudster is a male aged between 36 and 45 years, who is employed by the organization for more than ten years, he is a part of the senior finance position and successfully manages a fraud against his own employers with the help of another perpetrator. There has been an increase of 25% in the cases involving weak internal controls and an exploitation of the same. There are various reasons for an increase in weak internal control which are the tight budgets which force the company to cut on the expenses incurred for internal control, Fraudsters are taking advantage of this ...

John E. Ouelette, CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) narrates the true story of fraud perpetrated via e-bay online auctions. Ellie (Eleanor) Wallace is a 63 year old widow with three grown-up sons, and runs a small business of brooches, rings and trinkets. Her husband had left her sufficient money to live comfortably but Roland Granger, an experienced antique sales person, woos Ellie and convinces her that they should operate together in the antique business. He divorces his wife of 7 years, moves in with Allie and the couple gets married. They start their business (Classic Collections) with Ellie’s capital. Ellie’s ...

Article Review: Employee Safety and Health

The article was titled, “The Effectiveness of Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) Interventions: A Systematic Review” by Robson et al. The article investigates OHSMS-based guidelines, standards, and audits that have been developed and used for the past 20 years (Robson, et al, 2007). The study also investigates the economic outcomes of the various OHSMS. The researchers accomplished the purpose of the study; establishing whether the current guidelines, standards, and audits as established in various interventions and studies is satisfactory and applicable over public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
In this study, the researchers managed to review the ...

Instruction

Respondeat superior can be explained as the doctrine that affirms the responsibility of an employer over the employee. In particular, the doctrine states that a master is liable for torts committed by the servants in the course of their service (Pozgar, 2012). Pozgar (2012) elaborates that; respondeat superior dose not purge random negligence doctrine and neither is it exculpatory. As such, the employer remains predisposed to any negligence of its own that can be easily proved without respondeat superior doctrine being involved i.e. negligence in supervision or hiring. Correspondingly, the employee remains liable to the victim of the tort to ...

Following HRM practices contributed to its business performance:

EXTRA-ORDINARY TALENT
The success of Microsoft could be attributed to its ability to recruit, motivate and retain extra-ordinary talent. Microsoft has always hired the brightest and best candidates for recruiting for various positions. Bill Gates believed that the acquired knowledge was less important than the smart ideas available with talented and ambitious people. Microsoft always believed in hiring people who were smart, hardworking and knew how to get things done.

RIGOROUS HIRING PROCESS TO HIRE ONLY THE BEST

The hiring process for the developers was quite rigorous with a detailed interview and a technical interview in which the prospective candidates had to write code for Microsoft products and ...

In the near future, the healthcare problems in the U.S will worsen while new challenges arise. Even though various forms of new technology are on the verge of increasing efficiency, the overall costs for new treatments add outweigh the savings (Niles. 2011). The physicians will get better in treating problems while at the same time lengthening patients’ lives. This increases the levels of people in need of care. Similar to the automobile insurance policies, the healthcare coverage will be necessary (Matcha, 2003). Members of a family will use different plans through changing plans yearly. The uninsured citizens in the past ...

At the end of every fiscal year corporations post large profits that run into millions of dollars. The main beneficiaries are the stockholders of these corporations and the top management staff that lead luxurious lives. The situation is however different for the workers in the lower carders of these corporations that work the hardest to create these profits because as the corporations keep growing their profits the number of Americans living below the poverty line keeps increasing.
According to Segal, whose article appeared in the New York Times, an Apple store worker sold goods worth $750,000 in a span ...

The research focuses on answering two broad research questions. The first question required to determine the relationship between the use of EI competencies of Hispanic employees and the projects outcome that they continuously carry. The second research question was geared towards identifying the EI competencies in Hispanic employees that are the best in predicting individual project outcomes (Art 32).
There has been a great concern towards organizing skilled workers to minimize project losses. Negative emotions on the side of employees have been one of the major contributors of the project failure. Although not all times strategies work, there is ...

Is Apple Company any better after Steve Jobs Death?

Succession in Apple Company remained a tussle among the interested potential CEOs after the death of Steve Jobs death in 2011 (Chen). The employees of the company were worried and felt hopeless as they thought everything in Apple will change including the nature of the working environment and working conditions. There was a need for a more practical CEO who will streamline everything in Apple to raise its performance. While everyone though that Apple Company was on its ways to the grave with Steve Jobs, things turned out to be a surprise. Tim Cook took up the position and began to make everything ...

The journal article under review is titled ‘Leadership Style and Employee Turnover Intentions: A Social Identity Perspective’ compiled by various scholars from a number of universities in China. The study was based on a cultural approach to human resource management within organizations in China. Either, it also studied how it moderated the relationship between leadership style and employee turnover (Luiz et al., 2013). Questionnaires were used to obtain data with a hierarchical regression model, which is a quantitative model, used in testing the hypotheses. The data was collected in different areas within China with the findings showing that the leadership styles within firms ...

Business Conflict

Business Conflict
Conflicts in business can stem from a trivial offence that often starts in a small way. Corporations tend to maintain conflicts in a workgroup. The management has to educate the employees on the associated risks of harassment and subtle attacks in conflicts. Employees need to consider on the expensive nature of resolving conflicts by defending a lawsuit and adopt quick resolution to address the conflict.
In the article “Family Business Identity Conflict “Shepherd & Haynie (2009), state that a family business operates with the intention to shape the vision of the business as held by the dominant members of the family. ...

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The absence of a local area network and a wide area network for the firm makes connectivity and communication among the various employees difficult. Furthermore, there is no centralized database system. Moreover, the computers have different versions of MS Windows. The firm does not have a website for linking clients and the firm or for linking employees. This situation is very hazardous especially for follow-up on business and creation of reports. Eventually, this affects the process of decision-making.
The SAP business intelligence solutions can become suitable to aid in solving many of the challenges facing this firm. First, they ...

Article Review

The Affordable Care Act brought so many changes since in the health industry. This Act led to regulations and reforms in the health care industry. The regulations and reforms stipulated under the Affordable Care Act are instrumental in influencing the relationship between the employers and employees. This Act involves the aspects to track and report on the requirements of the employees in the job place. The health insurance also relates to the shared responsibility tax and the revenue code. The Employer Shared Responsibility Tax involves the amount of hours worked by the employees working on non-fulltime basis. This Act ...

The Ritz-Carton believes that having the right people is imperative to great customer service and, in turn, great customer satisfaction. Therefore, the Ritz-Carlton strives to hire the best people for the job, give them great customers services training, and treat them well to motivate them to do the best job. In fact, the Ritz-Carlton promises each employee that their people are the most important asset that they have. Furthermore, they value diversity and employee’s individual job aspirations and goals.
The Ritz-Carlton puts a great deal into making sure that their employees are properly trained to do their job ...

A work environment is a social environment where human nature is at play just as it is in family life and relationships. This is the resounding message of “7 Ways to Enhance Workplace Relationships, Motivation and Productivity” by Jonathan D. Port. The author acknowledges that advice is often broken down into numbered lists in order to bound and make tangible pieces of advice. He has broken ways 7 things that managers and supervisors can focus on which will increase workforce relationships and create an environment of motivated workers where productivity is maximized.
Rather than presenting his seven points as ...

Communication challenge is experienced in several corporations in the management body. .Boris Grasberg with Michael slind, discusses the sense behind communication in ensuring efficient management of a corporation. The article tries to demonstrate how worldwide companies are making use of multi-directional communication to enhance good leadership. .emphasis on bottom-up communication is the center of the authors’ argument that disregards top-down communication.
The article mentions four important aspects of good conversational leadership that encompasses aspects of inclusion, intimate relations, open interactions and how they apply to particular attributes within the corporation. Performance of the company reflects the nature of communication ...

Introduction

Observing good ethics especially in public administration is essential in the modern society. Ethics inform individuals’ daily life decisions making providing them with standards for delineating between the right and wrong. Ethical societies promote coordination and transparency without deception. Ethics in public administration includes values such as loyalty, honesty, integrity, openness, fair-mindedness, respect and forthright communication. It involves defending, systematizing, and recommending notion of right and wrong behavior (Geuras & Garofalo, 2010). A successful public administration practitioner needs to make intelligent decisions on circumstances that present with ethical predicament. It is important to balance serving the best wellbeing for a client ...

Communication CA272

Questions for Discussion
- Discuss how and why a conversational approach to communication could build trust between people? Identity how and why communication may impact the development of peoples’ relationships at work. Give examples to support your answers.
The main advantage of this approach is that the employees do not feel like employees or subordinates who are being ordered to perform a task. Instead they feel that they are being asked their opinion about the job to be done and this sense of participation motivates them to perform better. This motivation in turn assures the leader that the employee ...

Developing nations often face employment challenges since the industries cannot offer sufficient jobs for the people actively seeking employment, thereby causing the surge in unemployment rates. Consequently, the unemployed population often seeks employment opportunities in foreign economies with potential employment opportunities. Ethiopia is one of the developing economies that face this challenge. Several unemployed population in Ethiopia seek employment opportunities in foreign nations such as Saudi Arabia, which is one of the world’s leading oil exporter.
Recently, African employees in Saudi Arabia faced challenges as the Saudi authorities conducted a visa crackdown to ensure that every person staying ...

- Explain how WiMAX will make a difference in how we “connect” to the Internet. What are some of its key characteristics? (TC)
WIMAX is short for worldwide interoperability for microwave access. It has a potential of broadband internet access. It does not require cable and this enables people to connect to the internet automatically wherever they are. This is possible through the availability of WIMAX antenna.
- Briefly discuss the differences and the role of each of these wireless standards: Bluetooth, Zigbee, 802.11b
Bluetooth is a wireless technology for connecting devices. The devices have to agree before they ...

The Boss Is Watching

A company owned by a man called Dennis Gray suspected that his workers spent too much time during the workday tending to personal matters (Ante & Webber, 2013). After discovering a monitoring device which can be installed on the cell phones of his workers, he was able to track their location on a map and view where they were at what given time. This type of technology helped him keep his workers in-check during the day and it allowed for more efficiency during the day. Technology and recent innovations have helped employers keep their workers on the short-leash. In order for them to ...

Introduction

Human resource management is the practice of allocating resources appropriately to achieve the firm’s objectives. Among its elements is taking care of the human resource by ensuring the employees are well represented and taken care of in order to yield positive returns in driving the firm towards its goal.

Article 1: Employee Engagement

Dr. Joe Folkman the president of Zenger Folkman says that developing the strength of leadership is important to helping employees abandon the prison mentality and enjoy happy and productive work (HRM Guide, 2012). According to him, making the average worker happy will increase their commitment. However, what makes people ...

The Lie is a short story written by T.C Boyle and published on May 20th 2010.The story is based on the character who found himself on the wrong side with lies after he had his sick days off and wanted more days off and in the process, the habit persisted, it became clear that he was becoming addicted to lies with time as “the small issue’ became intense. The next day he was supposed to report to work but instead he called his employer Mr Radko and explained to him of his baby’s sudden sickness and therefore wanted some ...

Introduction

The dynamics of the society has resulted into several changes in the corporate world. This has necessitated the need of research, creativity and innovations to come up with novel and improved technologies which can be used to make life more comfortable. This has prompted the need for making constant innovations to improve the working conditions of the employees to enable them improve the quality of services. This is necessary for the survival of the organization in the highly competitive corporate sector.

Technological Innovations

In deed, research is an essential exercise for any business organization. It is the best way to come ...

Article Review

Introduction
MIS professionals have shown a substantially high rate of turnover which reached up to 20% in 1987 and is double of the average for business managers and professionals. Such high turnover can prove to be dysfunctional to organizations due to the shortage of experienced MIS employees and high costs associated with the training of new employees. The trend in turnover has made it very important for MIS managers to recruit, hire and train qualified MIS employees.

The purpose of this study is to test an integrated model of turnover intentions among MIS employees. The test involves using a structural ...

Summary of the Research

The research relies on the role of workplace spirituality in selling organisations and its significant impact on selling organisations. The research indicates that workplace spirituality is a growing trend these days; however few attempts have been made to integrate it in sales literature. Consequently, the main aim of the research conducted by authors is to put forth a conceptual framework that explicates the role of workplace spirituality in selling organizations. The objective of the research was to advance work on workplace spirituality by focusing on accepted themes (Badrinarayanan and Madhavaram 2008).
The findings of the research suggest that workplace spirituality ...

Question 1

A community is composed of a set of individuals. In order for it to develop, each individual should be socially conscious and responsible towards the society, as it is a core of their existence. Social responsibility according to Vanasupa is about refining the quality of relations with key stakeholders. Vanasupa further states that individuals have societal obligations to fulfill and in that way harm or help themselves or others. Engaging in acts that may impair oneself or others should actually not be classified as a social responsibility. It is more of being irresponsible and may bring retrogression to the contemporary society.
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The article written by Detert and Burris (2007) entitled “Leadership Behavior and Employee Voice: Is the Door Really Open?” and published in the Academy of Management Journal explored the relevance and implications of open communication in the work setting. Specifically, the authors examined any potential relationship among the variables which were investigated, such as: (1) two leadership types which were considered change-oriented: transformational leadership and managerial openness; and (2) subordinate improvement-oriented voice . Voice, in the discourse, was explicitly defined as “the discretionary provision of information intended to improve organizational functioning to someone inside an organization with the perceived authority ...

Why chose this article

The article focuses on the common behaviors among employees in an organization. Employees with negative attitudes destroy the reputation of co-workers and Roney has focused more on these types of employees by providing some useful tips of avoiding their pessimist behavior. In addition, this article was chosen because it uses Herzeberg’s theory of motivation. The author identifies various factors that increase the morale of employees in a workplace and promote job satisfaction despite the effort of colleagues to bring him or her down. Herzeberg’s motivation-hygiene theory describes how attitudes are connected to job satisfaction in that workers who ...

Introduction

In the United States, and in other developed countries, healthcare is treated more like a necessity than a benefit, contrary to the way how most developing countries prioritize the provision for healthcare and other health and wellness-related services, wherein it is perceived more like a luxury. This is one of the main reasons why there are a lot of thriving health and medical insurance companies in the U.S. and other developed countries. The citizens in those places are willing to pay a premium just to get the best healthcare services for themselves and their family members, who basically act as dependents in a family health ...

Article Review

Article Review

Thinking, Development and Deployment” the author expounded on the theoretical frameworks and applications of strategic planning as a crucial tool to provide direction in the decision-making processes of leaders in an organization. As emphasized, strategic planning incorporates relevant components that include mission, core values, vision and strategic goals . I was convinced that the author provided the significant aspects which emphasize that “employees at all levels can articulate and share the company’s vision and its overall strategic direction” . The assertion was highly commendable in acknowledging that there apparently should not be any barrier to the solicitation of inputs, ...

Article Review

Article Review

Where They Stand” written by Urhuogo and Williams (2011), the authors emphasized the crucial roles that leaders take in leading both innovation and change in an organization. Likewise, the article discussed the relevant role of ethics, as a driving force and influential factor in change and innovation. Also, the challenges that were normally encountered in leading changes and innovation were expounded; including appropriate principles and practices that assist organizations towards successful implementation of changes and innovation.
One is convinced that the arguments asserted by the authors were commendable in terms of stressing the need for leaders to ...

Introduction

Occupational fraud is a fraud that is committed by the employee to an employer is also called employee fraud, there are much common in most companies which it leads to financial losses .as much as the people working stay in the company they will hide the fraud forever.

The article: 2013.

During the cannas film festival a necklace which was worth about $2m after a star studded though the event was every guarded the necklace was not found, the event is normally held to promote jewel. The jewel was stored in a safe and there door to the safe was not broken the police did investigations ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of Fiona Wilson’s article “Dilemmas of Appraisal”. The paper also gives an analysis of the article while examining the main aim of the author in writing this article and the major aim of the research. Additionally, I will also analyze the research methods used in this research and the findings of these methods and procedures. Finally, I will provide a conclusion alongside some recommendations based on my findings and inferences concerning the research.
The main aim of the article Dilemmas of appraisal is to examine the underlining assumptions of ...

Management

Management

Introduction

It can cause a reduction in employee turnout, among the likelihood of the extreme employee turnout. However, it must take place; another reunion with the workers will have to be occurred to assist them observe the big image of any company.

Discussion

Staff turnover can be disorderly, expensive and affect team confidence. Staff leaves for various causes, and it is usually not as they would like more advantages. There are varieties of other causes that will effect in the staff creating that result to remain or leave. In the company, managers take interview many of candidates and throughout this procedure ...

Employer and employee sign working agreements that count for the employee’s working contract, agreements that amongst others, refer to non-disclosure policy, respecting the working norms and regulations, code and conduct and so on. This stands at the basis of the working relationship between employees and employer around the world. Violation of this relationship leads to terminating the working contract and in some cases, to inducing the offender employees on a black list, so that they cannot find employment in the same activity sector, as Clifford and Silver – Greenberg report (“Retailers Tract Employee”).
With these general information one could ...

Reply to articles

The first article focuses on the basic legal rights stipulated in the civil rights section of the AFL-CIO website. These rights assure workers of healthy and safe environmental conditions at their workplace. However, these civil rights have been violated often as companies seek to maximize profits rather than care about their employees. The example of A.E. Staley is proof of how employees are mistreated by managers who are only focused on profit making.
The article also focuses on the plight of workers of African American and Latino descent. These employees have faced mistreatment ad discrimination ever since. African ...

What was the general purpose of the study (hypotheses)?

The general purpose of the study on Mark of a Criminal Record is to analyze the manners in which the criminal records affect the information of employers while hiring employees, and the extent to which it affects it. This research believes that this is imperative because many people have been assuming that criminal records have no impact on decisions made by employers. This is because they believe that employers focus on the interactional skills and other characteristics that they can observe. Therefore, the aim of the research is to identify the degree to which employers apply criminal history without collaborating ...

Question 1

Employee training is an essential strategy used by management in developing the skills and improving the performance of employees. The importance of the article was to establish the effects of comparative training in the United Kingdom and France. This was entitled to establish the significance of employees having training when they are working. It also compared the training offered to both countries and which one could be best applied in business organizations (Rowley, 2008). The article was also aimed at the employee development and how best this factor can be applied to different business organizations in the world. It ...

Based on the story of Sally Helgesen, identify the dominant style of leadership and justify them.

Sally Helgensen uses an authentic style of leadership. This is leadership where stakeholders in an organization are given chances to air their views and are listed at all the times. This kind of style does emphasize on the employees need as a priority followed by financial need for the company. This is expressed in the case of sally when she was preparing speeches for the CEO of the fortune 500 companies where she involved herself in office politics but sees herself as an outsider looking at an concedes herself an observer.
Sally interviews as a writer helped her learn how ...

The websites reviewed have several things in common. Chief amongst them is how visually boring they are. For the most part they are all basically directories with simple click interfaces. Rather than utilizing the latest available web technology they seem to be stuck in an old mind-set when dial-up connections were the norm, and people were still accepting of information presented as they were in informational pamphlets handed out in the doctors office. Today however, we use the internet to give us a deeper depth to our content and these websites fail to do that. In effect they are all ...

Executive Summary

Talent management in any institution is a key concept that should be totally differentiated from human resource management. This is because proper talent management leads to increased productivity and loyalty among the employees. The article “Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda”, Human Resource Management Review, 19: 4, 304–313” by Collings, D.G. and Mellahi, K. (2009) helps to shed light on the issue of talent management and human resource management.
The following report analyses the views and issues raised by the authors by looking at the validity and reliability of the research methods used by the authors, ...

Article Review on Training

Training is important in all organizations since it induces excellent performance among employees. Various authors have made different arguments regarding training. One article that has made such attempts is ‘Seven steps to coaching your employees to success’ by Katherine Graham-Leviss. In this article, Katherine outlines the major steps that are important for effective training on employees. According to her, training employees is important since it helps them to gain the skill and competence needed to work in the organization. In addition, training improves the coordination and effectiveness of employees in the organization (Katherine 2011).
In this article, Katherine ...

In the world of business, telecommuting or working from home has always been a popular choice for employees who find it convenient and often more productive than sitting in a cubicle all day along. Indeed, studies have shown that the average productivity of employees increases by around 15 percent when they are working from home as compared to when they work from the office. However, not everyone seems to be happy with this state of affairs the article being reviewed for this paper shows. The article, which is titled Why Won't Yahoo! Let Employees Work From Home? Is about a leaked memo ...

According to Anderson and Media (2013), there are various advantages and disadvantages of observing diversity in an organization. As such, there is the need to make sure that there is proper management of the diverse workforce so as to make sure there is consistency and smoothness in the running of the organization. There are some measures which should be put in place so as to make sure that the managers do not resort to individual attacks and ostracism in the workplace. Some of these are as discussed below.
First of all, the organizations need to make sure that ...