Human Resource Management Article Reviews Samples For Students

David Tuff was a 24-year-old security guard at Villlage Square Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mall is managed and operated by Blue Mountain Company, which also has a security services division that trains and supplies security guards to several shopping malls in some Midwestern states. Tuff strongly opposed Blue Mountain’s new company policy to order and escort intoxicated persons (including drunk drivers) off its parking lots and onto the public roads. He feared that drunk drivers might harm innocent people and that doing so would jeopardize his license, as he was required by law to report any illegal behaviour (drunk ...

Article Abstracts Small Business

Insurance
The Obama’s administration completely buried the report of some people paying more for health care charges. The government waited on Friday afternoon and then dumped the news just late at the end of the week. This paper outlines a detailed article entitled What Obama Won’t Say.
It was reported on 25th February 2014 that a total of eleven million workers who were engaged in small business were likely to pay an extra amount compared to others to cater for their health insurance under the Act of Affordable Care. This was a report conducted and analyzed from the ...

Introduction

Internal audit refers to an objective declaration and independent activity consultative in nature and which is designed to enrich the value and advance the daily operations of an organization. This helps a given organization to achieve its desired ends since it brings in a disciplined and systematic approach on how to approach, improve and evaluate efficiency of managing risks, governance and control processes. (Picket 81).

Internal audit catalyses improvement in an organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness by giving room for recommendations and insights which are normally inclined upon assessment of data, analyses of such data and the processes of conducting such business. ...

The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time.

The paper gives a description of a qualitative study of the way people utilize their time in the workplace. It also describes why people use their time the way they do and it also considers whether the way in which people use time is optimal for their work groups and for them. The outcome of the field study of the work practices of software engineering team showed that the members were perpetrated by the group’s collective use of time. The study revealed that the workers had a feeling that the time for doing their activities was short. The engineers faced difficulties ...

Summary of the Article

The article generally speaks of the reality of forgiveness and what it brings to other people in an individual and group basis. It begins with the realization that, according to studies, forgiveness interventions results in decreased anxiety, depression, and anger, and in increased self-esteem, hope, and positive affect (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). These factors show that forgiveness can provide beneficial impacts upon society at large.
The model for forgiveness intervention by Enright and Worthington were first implemented in educational institutions as a social scientific work. However, an emphasis was given on the fact that forgiveness first finds its shape in ...

Article Review

Article Review
Dutch (2013) used the contingency model of strategic human resource management to construct a new framework of human resources, strategy and culture in an organization. The current perspective of the contingency model involves aligning human resource management practices with themselves and with organizational strategy. The article posits that though this view is theoretically sound, there are challenges in its practicality. They fault the contingency model for failing to address the issues that affect both the HRM and strategy. Further, the article indicates that some of the HRM practices might be affected by strategy and vice versa. This ...

Jaarat (15) says that human resource is a vital entity in every business entity since it controls and directs other resources. The accounting department recognizes the human resource as an important asset in stating the financial position. Whenever there is, a lack of measurement in the use of the financial resource, the human resource in the company is accountable. According to Jaarat (15), a model for measuring and recognizing human resource in the statement of financial position can better the organization.
Jaarat (16) confirms that human resource is the most expensive resource in every business entity. This resource applies directly through ...

The horror of the Piper Alpha disaster happened about two decades ago. Explosion and fire ripped through the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. About 167 workers were killed as a result of the Piper Alpha Disaster.
Several investigations were made but most of them were hindered by a lack of physical evidence. However, an eye-witness account made it known that light hydrocarbon got released into the surrounding when a pump was restarted after maintenance. On that terrible day, the day shift maintenance crew were said to be on some of the pumps ...

Article Summary:

In the U.S. Construction Industry

Magazine: McGill Journal of Education, 2013

Article: “Doing it Old School: Peer Led Occupational Safety Training
In the U.S. Construction Industry” by Clayton Sinyai, Pete Stafford & Chris Trahan

Summary of the Article:

The article entitled “Doing it Old School: Peer Led Occupational Safety Training” written by Sinyai, Stafford, & Trahan (2013) presented relevant information regarding conducting training programs by trade and construction workers within the construction industry. As divulged, the construction industry recognized as one of the most risky and hazardous industries require knowledge and adherence to safety standards. The authors initially presented a historical overview of the emergence of peer-led and union based outreach ...

Question: Evaluation of training of correctional workers

Design: The main objective of the author is to plug in the important subjects of correctional training. He discusses issues that are extremely important to correctional staff. The author examines the benefits of training correctional workers apart from the need to get “their in hours”. He also examines the key attitudes to correctional workers training. He also highlights the topics to be considered during training.
Results: The author finds that training of correctional workers is important to in ensuring safety and increasing knowledge and skills of the officers. In the research the author finds out the key attitudes ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

Review of “Industrial and Commercial Training”

The study indicates that 21% of the companies with at least 500 workers prefer providing online learning opportunities for their workers. The paper expresses that the human resources managements, in general, are still suspicious about the efficiency of online learning programs for the workers. Only 30% of the companies those provide online learning opportunities for their workers express that they have received positive results from the online learning programs, and the rest of the companies indicate that they need relatively more time to make a certain decision whether the online learning programs have positive results (Kirkup, 2014).
The paper ...

Abstract

The topic of this paper is regarding the effects of the nursing shortage on patient safety and adverse events. Due to the nursing shortage, there is an increase inare registered more patient adverse events and there is increasedthe risk to the patient’s safety increased. If the nursing shortage problem is not correctedsolved, then there will be a continuance ofcontinue increase in the risk to patient safety risk , andas well as harm to the patient. In the paper there is provided Aan explanation of the nursing shortage, the its cause of the shortage, how the shortageit affects patient safety, and ...

Management

With reference to the members of staff, Barrett is a good listener that is quite willing to accept varying opinions. He is a good listener that distills comments and information well. He listens carefully and can substantiate his suggestions or comments. Barrett is also patient and respectful. This attribute enables his members of staff to challenge him. Additionally, the attribute allows him to invite disagreements from people. He never attacks people individually or diminish their importance.
Barrett gives freedom to members of staff and allows them to do what they deem right. He is loyal, especially on issues of personnel ...

Question # 1

Summary
This sort of comparison also serves as a benchmarking tool. Due to the gap created, it is imperative to ascertain that the club is putting necessary efforts while establishing budget commitments to attaining the new desired level. Use of the symbolic automobiles to elucidate the strategic mission and vision statement of the club will result in a more modest agreement with regards to the clubs’ positioning after members of the board evaluate the projected costs. This gap directs members of the club to appraise its actual status rather than the ideal, and it demands for constructive participation by members ...

Summary

Human resource practices should be aligned with the needs of the employees. The notion attached to the concept aligns with the opinion by the author who indicates the need for the human resource practices of the “Y” generation to align with their technological needs. Generation Y is anticipated to hold over fifty percent of the workforce by 2020. The generation is largely technology advanced indicating the need to ensure entities such as workplace culture are technologically embedded. These changes are aimed at ensuring the set objectives of the organization are achieved through

Discussion

Born between 1982-2003, generation Y reflects a millennial ...

- Emergence of sociology resulted from human curiosity that led to the evolution of a number of theories with different people trying to explain the social world in their views.
- The revolution of social order started in the eighteenth century due to the social uprisings that changed the state of social order.
- The social revolution changed how the humans and people around the globe viewed the society. The society is controlled by the people and people only.
- Before the different aspects of humanity believed that only the kings and God controlled the world, but ...

The quality control process is an essential part for all spheres of lives. When it comes about the health care institutions, the quality control process is vitally important. An article “Evaluating implementation of quality management systems in a teaching hospital’s clinical departments” is about a quality improvement system implementation in the 2000-bed teaching hospital and a short evaluation of the experimental application.
The total quality control comes to the hospitals very slowly, as it requires many transformations, as the changes in behavior, habits, culture, power systems and sociological hierarchy. A hospital departments autonomy, mechanical and professional bureaucracy are the obstacles ...

In order to demonstrate the main trends related to the role of female employees of community corrections facilities, the author employed the results of the study conducted by Norfolk State University`s Department of Criminal Justice based on the data collected from the Virginia Department of Corrections. It is noted, that the Department during the period from 1970s to early 1990s experienced a gradual change in its work force in regard to the increasing number of female employees who mostly occupied the positions of parole and probation officers, with a certain amount occupying executive-level positions. The author concludes, that since early ...

Introduction

Social, economic and business environment are becoming increasingly complex in their structure and interrelationships. The rivalry market environment and external pressures in place the companies in the hospitality and tourism industry consider cost reduction and look at alternative ways of building on their competitive edge. This competitive pressure drives he prices down and makes travelling and international mobility more accessible to middle and lower middle classes. Supported by various ways of financing, tourism has become an integral part of many people´s lives. With the above in mind, cultural, social and other elements of diversity become extremely important for ...

Section 1 of the DAA: Context of the Journal

I chose the article titled ‘Managerial-Enacted Empowerment: The Dimensionality and Effects on the Wellbeing and Performance of Service Workers’ by Michal Biron and Bamberger. Workers’ freedom of choice may be boosted to prevent the hurting of working effectiveness. The variables used are the dimensionality, effects on the well-being, and performance of social workers. Dimensionality is the dependent variable while social workers’ well-being and their performance are the independent variables. The well-being of social workers cannot be measured and hence it is a nominal variable. Conversely, performance of the social workers can be measured because it is a scalar quantity. For instance, ...

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/nyregion/red-ink-in-states-beginning-to-hurt-economic-recovery.html
The influence of the state government economy is slowly influencing the country economy. The federal government fiscal policies operate under pro-cyclical local policies. The more the federal tax system is managed under pro-cyclical local policies the more the total spending will go up. The impact of cutting the state spending is being felt by the middle income earners who nearly on the spate government to regulate on their economy. Cutting the spending meant that people are going to lack basic commodities that have in the past been influenced by the state spending thus calling for the overall ...

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 ...

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 ...

Question 1The American Welding Society space recommendations

The American Welding Society which is normally abbreviated as AWS and has its headquarters in Doral, Florida is an organization dedicated to improving the safety of welding, cutting and hot works in the country and internationally. The organization makes publications in regard to procedures and codes that are up to date with the changing technological advancement. A confined space in a welding environment is described as an area with limited space and the entry and exit points may also be limited. A confined space may also mean an area with poor ventilation which may be hazardous to the people working ...

Article Review

Article Review
The topic of the article is “The Pay is Too Damn Low”. The article is written by James Surowiecki and appeared on his column-The Financial Page in the New Yorker onAugust 12, 2013.James Surowiecki writes regular articles on business and finance and works at The New Yorker as a writer.Surowiecki's business and finance articles have appeared in many publications which include The New York Times, Artforum, Slate, The Motley Fool and Wall Street Journal.
The article aims to support increasing the welfare of low-earning workers as well as increasing their pay. It does not, however, support ...

Analyzing an Article by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

The paper of the statement can be summarizes as following: There are varying influences on motivation of workers and money is the most important one for the workers. The journals read by the professionals claim that the money is not the most influential motivator at work place. The study by Rynes, Gerhart and Minette claims that the professionals think that money is a motivation tool however they underestimate the power of money on workers’ motivation.
The HR specialists believe the surveys to understand whether the motivators ...

The police department suffices for general purposes of law enforcement. However, the organization and staff levels often depend on various activities. For instance, New York Police service oversees more activities in comparison to City of Cumberland Police department which oversees lesser activities. In York, the staff level surpasses five hundred while Cumberland only has fifty officers with four personnel officers.
New York police are organized functionally with internal departments including neighborhood association, York County gang prevention, police alert network, and police community service. On the other hand, in Cumberland the staff is organized in three broad categories which ...

Article Summary: Ergonomics

Article: “The work practices and ergonomic problems experienced by garment workers in Ghana” by Efua Vandyck and Docea A.G. Fianu

Summary of the Article:

The article entitled “The work practices and ergonomic problems experienced by garment workers in Ghana” written by Vandyck & Fianu (2012) presented crucial information pertinent to potentials for developing musculoskeletal diseases of tailors and dressmakers working in various garment manufacturers in Ghana. The aim of the study was to determine the factors and stressors that apparently contribute to work-related injuries or chronic illnesses related to the tasks that were performed. Specifically, the authors focused on evaluating the features and attributes ...

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

Globalization forms a significant issue in the hospitality industry. Hotels franchises, for instance, may choose to expand into foreign markets. However, globalization may have both negative and positive effects on the hospitality industry. Factors such weather, cultural differences and economic factors have a considerable influence on the globalization in the hospitality industry. Tourism is a significant part of the hospitality industry. Globalization makes it possible for companies in the hospitality industry to expand their operations. This implies that the number of customers for the company increases. Consequently, the company enjoys more business hence can be able to make more profit (Frink, 2009). ...

The task of the CEO of a company is to ensure that the operating costs are at a minimum, a continuous growth and expansion of the company and the profits are maximized at all times. He has to always ensure that the new ventures survive to their fulfillment in that they produce the desired results on their maturity. Very few initiatives that are launched in areas with potential make it to maturity without being stifled by the mature ventures. Some mistakes that the executives make include;

Part 1.Failing to provide the right kind of oversight

Distractions on many occasions tend to make the managers fail to follow the rules that are ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

Response to Post of Student 1:

I am convinced that the main paint being relayed was that at the onset, by having decided to pursue the profession in healthcare, practitioners have already manifested a genuine and innate drive or motivation to serve. Healthcare is such a challenging and dynamic endeavor that entices only those with distinct calling for the profession. As such, valance, or the perceived importance of the work is duly ingrained. Likewise, other motivational components (self-efficacy and expectancy) become motivating drives depending on the value systems and preferences of health workers. One therefore agrees that the provision of appropriate incentive systems could make the work ...

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 ...

Introduction

Malaria is a killer disease in Africa. It is estimated that over five million people succumb to malaria every year. Malaria is a disease commonly transmitted by the female anopheles mosquito. This parasite thrives where the sorroundings are bushy and also where there exists stagnant pools of water (Fosu &Mwabu, 2007). The stagnant pools of water form the breeding place of the mosquitoes while the bushes form the hiding place of the mosquitoes. It is from these bushes that the mosquitoes emerge later on in the evening to bite people. Malaria has been the number one killer in Africa and so ...

Organization Structure has impact, effects and influences on many and most of the aspects of an organization that determine its performance. Most important is the kind of effects it has to the people within the organization, from the staff to the management and even its owners or stake holders. The aspects of an organization that are influenced by the organization structure are
- Effectiveness and efficiency
- Internal communication
- Employee morale
Different types of organizational structures exist, each with its own pros and cons, each with its own effect on the overall organization behavior. ...

Jim Madison exemplifies situational leadership style. In situational leadership, the leaders’ depend on various situation aspects. When making decision, the leader does not just use a single style. Factors affecting situational decisions comprise of followers motivation and capabilities. In turn, this is affected by factors within a certain situation. Another factor affecting the behavior of a leader is the relationship between followers and the leader. The perception of the leader towards a certain follower affects what they do rather than the situation truth. The perception of the leader on themselves together with other factors as well modifies the behavior of the leader.
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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 ONE:

Authors: Dr. Muhammad Tariq Khan, Dr. Naseer Ahmed Khan, and Khalid Mahommod
Periodical/Journal and date: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business, vol. 8, no. 3, September 2012

Page Numbers: 50-60

Summary:
In this article the authors discuss and evaluate the different views and perceptions about the Human Resource Development (HRD) as presented by different scholars and researchers. The authors highlight the importance of the human resource development and present the idea that human resource development is mostly treated as a sub domain or part of the human resource management. However, at the same time there are several researchers who have ...

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 ...

The article to be reviewed in this paper is “Occupational Safety and Health at the Workplace” by Elroy John (2005). The article comprehensively outlines the current policies in place set to protect and enhance the health, safety and general welfare of an organization’s personnel. It accentuates the main aim of Human Resource Management practice of fostering a safe and healthy personnel work environment. The employee safety and healthy is pointed out as important to any proper firm and Human Resources Management department as it touches on legal, moral, and financial principles. The general well-being of the manpower will translate ...

- Introduction: Older Workers and the paradox
An older worker refers to that worker aged over 44 years. Most employers have adopted the image that such a worker is ageing and has reduced workmanship in their jobs or have a low value in the employment sector.
For this reason, and with the complete disregard to their strengths and worth, these workers are deemed as unemployable in the society of today that constitutes of an ageing population and reducing birth rates that would need to retain and sustain the older people.
- Summary of the Article
The authors’ ...

1. What is the author’s central argument (thesis)?
In "Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity," Sara Robinson effectively argues that human beings need to go back to the 40 hour work week, as opposed to the 55-60 hour weeks most Americans are working today. She argues that limiting workers' productivity to 40 hours a week guarantees more productive hours on the whole, as people get burned out and more exhausted as the hours go on past that magic number.
2. What evidence is presented to support the central ...

Article Review: The Pullman Strike by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace
Summary
The Pullman Strike was a landmark event in the labor history of the United States. Happened in 1894, the strike has involved large numbers of workers who fought against agents of the federal government. The workers, who worked under the Pullman Palace Car Company, underwent a series of labor relations changes that led them to organize the strike. Company owner George Pullman gathered all of his workers under a town that asks for higher rental fees but serves as an advantage for gaining employment at Pullman. The 1893 ...

Rudin, J., Weaver, K., & Wingham, D. (2004). Equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation and small scale businesses: real hazard or red herring. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 17(2), 93.

Major Thesis

The article attempts to study the impact of the ‘equal employee opportunity’ legislation on small businesses in the US. It further examines how the human resource management can formulate strategies to act in accordance with this set legislation. In this article compliance with EEO legislation is viewed as an important aspect of businesses to public policy. This calls for organizations to uphold fair employment practices on their human resource. ...

Article critique

The authors to the study did not cite any research question.What is its importance?
The study sought to predict rater elevation using the Five-factor model (FFM) of personality. Elevated ratings cause numerous problems for operational-performance management systems such as employee dissatisfaction with appraisal and reward systems and difficulties in justifying termination decisions. The researchers thus sought to elucidate on the problem of rater elevation by identifying individual variables that contribute to the behavior. What is/are the hypothesis/hypotheses?
The authors hypothesized that Agreeableness (A) scores were positively linked to rating level and conscientiousness (C) scores were positively associated ...

Article Review

Hilton, Choi, and Chen’s article in the Journal of Business Ethics, “The Ethics of Counterfeiting in the Fashion Industry: Quality, Credence and Profit Issues,” discusses the ethical dilemmas that persist in the fashion industry relating to counterfeiting of fashion goods. The immensity of counterfeiting is illustrated by the authors’ example that “Worldwide the International Chamber of Commerce estimates that seven percent of world trade is in counterfeit goods and that the counterfeit market is worth $350 billion” (345). They identify the possible ethical basis for analyzing fashion counterfeiting as utilitarianism, distributive justice, the Moral Rights of Man, and ...

Article Review

SHRM and Tacit Knowledge Transfer: A Case Study
The Article under scrutiny was written by Abdelwahab Aït Razouk, Mohamed Bayad and Delphine Wannenmacher for the Journal Human Systems Management in the year 2009. The authors wish to explore the link between Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Knowledge transfer within an organization. It is well understood from the abstract of the article that the authors are very clear about what they wish to investigate- Their objective is to study how the ‘Tacit Knowledge’ transferred is assisted and aided by the perspectives and practices of SHRM.
The ...

Article Critique: Dealing with Annoying Co-Workers

This article by Green (2011) suggested tactics for dealing with co-worker types that probably most of us have encountered at one time or another. The term “co-worker” suggests an office or industrial environment, but it’s a safe bet that the characters portrayed by Green could be an irritation in any environment where people congregate: in school, college, clubs, on sports teams, etc. You name it, they’ll be there somewhere! Perhaps a thought that should come to mind when reading such an article is: “Am I one of those types!?” It’s a natural human instinct to believe that such ...

The article 'Spain’s Robin Hood' by Jeffry Taylor intends to explain the economic problems that Spain is facing as a country. The author starts by showing workers who are demonstrating due to the problems that they are facing at the work place. They move to the streets shouting that they need salary increase and do not need cuts in their salaries that reduce their salaries. These cuts are in form of insurance and healthcare funds. The workers also complain that after retirement, they do not receive any retirement benefits. The theme of the paper is to show how bad ...

James Holmes has been indicted of opening fire in a teemed theater at a midnight showing of the Batman movie on July 20th, killing 12 people and wounding 58 others. The rage of the attack, setting and sheer magnitude was more than any other in the country’s history. This encounter shocked even a nation largely habituated to random flare-ups of violence. After the shooting spree, 12 people were confirmed dead and more than fifty hospitalized with diverse scales of injuries.
The victims of the shooting incident who were successfully identified included Jon Blunk, Sgt. Jesse Childress of the Air Force ...

1. How does salesforce.com demonstrate the key themes of motivation and creativity that we have been talking about?

Most importantly, Salesforce.com let their employees feel and realize that they are not simply an asset or a tool to increase company’s profit, but first of all, each of them contributes to the company’s development and everybody’s point of view is taken into consideration. For this purpose Chatter was developed – staying in touch with all people in the company creates one productive and efficient team of employees.

Undoubtedly, this invention paved the way for new ideas, fast development, corporate spirit and every employee’s great desire to “give back to the community”. What is also crucial is ...

Section Name

Article: An Ergonomics Program for the Health Care Setting

In Bragg's "An Ergonomics Program for the Health Care Setting" (1996), he discusses the basic elements that are required to set up a formal ergonomics program in a health care context. In instances where health care workers are handling patients, the likelihood of experiencing back injuries is great (p. 58). With that in mind, management is required to deal with these types of injuries with health care workers by establishing a formal ergonomics program to provide prevention and care for these stressors. The article itself provides the elements that are required in order ...

The article “When a New Manager Takes Charge” by John Gabbaro explores what happens when there is a change of leadership at the management levels of companies. Gabbaro’s article documents why some managers are successful with the transition while others flop. In general, he documents that most managers take a relatively longer period to adapt to the requirements of the new work environments. The article makes a case that managers experience play a critical role in the success in the process of transition using examples from American and European managers. Mangers with experience of working in different environments take a relatively shorter time to ...

Marcus Buckingham presents practical skills that managers can employ to maximize the output of subordinates in the workplace through the identification of their strong points as well as their weaknesses in the, What Great Manager Do article. Buckingham makes a clear distinction between leaders and managers in his statement that; great leaders utilize the needs and fears we all share while great managers on the other hand discover, improve, and celebrate the difference of the personnel they are working with.
Spotting an individual’s unique trait and capitalizing on it saves time. Buckingham uses practical examples to clarify this point. ...

Scientific Method is a process which researchers utilize in exploring observing and carrying out the necessary experiments in a bid to ascertain the reliability of collected information relating to a specific phenomenon. Accordingly, the methodology usually entails four major steps. These steps include observation, hypothesis, predicting and experimenting. Observation is basically the studying and describing a particular trend while the second step involves the formulation of a theory that seeks to explain the experience.

Observation may, in most cases, take into consideration previous studies. Consequently, the prediction phase relate to using the hypothesis formulated to make a prediction with reference to the observable facts. The ...

Summary:

In Michael Blanding’s article, “The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters,” the function and the role of a corporate headquarter is emphasized. It illustrates that coordination in an office or organizational work is very important and that the headquarter houses the whole operations of the enterprise in a more efficient manner. The explicit knowledge of the activities of each of the organizational department is very crucial to the maximum performance of the company. This only happens when there is a corporate headquarter. It integrates the works of each unit of the organization through its staff.

The article further explores the virtual roles ...

Transitioning Mary McClain from high school to college needs to include discussions with the staff at the college so that the staff is familiar with Mary and her assistive technology (AT) needs to be successful at college. The second strategy to help Mary be successful at college is to assign her a mentor at the college. The mentor could be another special needs student who has been at the college longer than Mary has and can help Mary learn where she needs to go to have her needs met.
Let us assume the technical college Mary wants to attend ...