Essays on Business Partner

The article by Richard Paddock titled ‘Trump Business Partner Is Philippines’ New Trade Envoy to U.S.’ reveals a lot concerning the economic relations between America and the Philippines. The South American country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, did not name President Trump’s business partner in Manila as the special envoy to America in vain. In fact, it has been observed as a move to position the Philippines strategically with regards to its economic relationships with America, and particularly with President Trump. Notably, this could be seen as a potential advantage for the Philippines as a country, Duterte and Jose ...

Introduction

Within the industry of human resource management, the roles of being an effective strategic partner and an employee champion, or an employee advocate are considered to be mutually exclusive. However, this could be a form of identity crisis throughout the organization because the HR operations may need the company to be a strategic business partner, however, it always will cause a form of conflict to be considered an advocate for the employees of the company Collins & Smith, 2006). For instance, the human resource manager primary focus is to maximize the full capacity of human capital that would strategically be ...

Human Resource Management is a dynamic field that has to navigate through the ever evolving and changing markets. The difficulty is paring employee to customer making a successful transaction. This relationship between employees and customers is essential. While customer needs and interactions change so do the needs of the HRM to locate, hire, and train the correct individuals to cooperate with the customer. There are many changes that are occurring with the digital age and globalization, HRM’s are sensitive to these trends and are shifting their function in their companies. In the society for industrial and organizational psychology ...

Introduction

The Ulrich's three-legged stool model is a model that was created about ten years ago by Dave Ulrich to assist in the reconstruction of Human Resource (HR) function into a “three-legged stool”. This model has three primary constituent elements which include the business partners, shared services, and centres of excellence. The ideas contained in the Ulrich model came at a time when the HR was overwhelmed to define roles for itself, and it is for this reason that its thinking escalated to higher levels (Heneman and Milanowski, 2011). In practice, there is always an overlap that may exist across ...

Introduction

Performance management is an important aspect of organizational function. It encompasses all the activities that concern the adherence to corporate goals. Performance management is an integral step towards the achievement of company objectives through sustainability (Roos, 1997, p.416). This is done in ways that promote organizational efficiency and consistency. Performance management can be streamlined to concern particular organizational units. Concerning this, it may regard to the activities of an organization’s departments or its employees. Through the creation of performance management strategies. Performance management has been cited in the field of corporate strategy (Youndt, 1996, p.840). Organizations use this ...

Abstract

The drive for conducting this research is to establish the importance of HRM as a strategic partner in an organization. A strategic partner is a party who legally agrees to work with the other party in order to achieve set goals. The first part of this research involves identifying the importance of having HRM as a strategic partner. They include, but not limited, to recruiting and maintaining the right talent, reduction in undesirable turnover and overall success for the organization. The second part identifies how HR can transform to a strategic business partner. The research shows that it is ...

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Many of the US companies are trying to enter international markets, outsource the manufacturing processes, and become international. Such activity needs certain knowledge from the company’s managers and all those colleagues that will participate in communications with the foreign partners. Spain has a very rich history and culture and therefore there are many aspects that US business people should learn before starting to work with Spanish partners, suppliers or customers. The economic situation, business etiquette and traditions in Spain are different from the US ones. This is mostly caused by the relaxed rhyme of life in this country and ...

International Management

Introduction Middle East is a very vast region and consists of several Arabian countries that provide an attractive opportunity for international businesses. The region has fast growing population of over 300 million people, comprising of various cultures, nations, religions and people. The Middle Eastern countries have managed to gain maximum attention from the world’s top multinational companies and business groups for foreign direct investment. They have incorporated abundant natural resources, backed by governmental support to privatize and expand country industries that provided the basis for international trade. The region has become an economic hub due to globalization efforts ...

Introduction

We encounter ethics- and morality-related issues every day whenever we interact either with other people or even the environment. The level of person’s morality is to significant extent dependent on the way he/she manages everyday ethical issues. The most important thing with respect to managing these issues lies in the fact that it is necessary to remember that moral rules should come not from legal acts or indications of other people, but from ourselves. In this assignment we would like to present twenty examples of everyday situations and related ethical issues.

Situation 1

My friend introduces his new girlfriend to ...

1a) Slack, Chambers, & Johnston describe five performance objectives, or factors to be considered, for job design (2007). The first of these is quality, as the ability of employees to provide high quality goods and services is impacted by job design. Certainly providing high quality grocery goods and services is important to this business. Extremely high quality can provide real differentiation for a business (Brittin, 2013). The second objective is speed. There are jobs where speed is imperative, such as emergency personnel. Although less important than in medical emergencies, speed is a factor in the grocery business, if just to keep the ...

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The human resource (HR) professionals play a major role in the human resource management department in attaining the HRM goals and objectives of an organization. They play the multiple roles in driving change, implementation of the HR policy and is equally viewed as partners by the HR managers in aligning the human resource strategies and the practices of an effective business strategy. With their roles viewed as such, HR professionals desire to be recognized as the strategic business partners in the field of the human resource management who help in the accomplishment of the organization’s business objectives. Thus, they ...

This book is piece that highlights the vulnerability of the justice system. The book is based on the modern society where corruption and other ills are part and parcel of our society. In the book the author is keen to note that the justice system is filled with social ills and it becomes for anyone to get justice. According to the author the jury is body where one with power or money can influence its decisions. In the modern society it is a general opinion that courts and the justice system is controlled by the mighty and powerful. The innocent ...

Human Resource Management

I believe one of the most important assets of any organization is its human capital, the people who make up and run the company’s business. Interacting with and managing people or a subordinate is a task that every employee needs to do, regardless of their function or department. However, with HRM, dealing with people is the job itself and that is what is most challenging about it. Considering the vast differences in individual natures, even in a professional set up, the HR has to tackle a human element in all of its dealings, whether it is payroll, leave management, employee engagement and ...

Luxembourg is a potent brand due to its geographic and historical position. It is mainly branded through the use of customer based brand equity through the personalization of communication and customization of its products and services. It has developed a “Made in Luxembourg” label to distinguish its products and services when exported abroad. Luxembourg also has the “Luxembourg for Business” (LfB) brand which establishes a corporate identity for Luxembourg as a “brand with a pro business reputation. This paper discusses the development and further improvement of Luxembourg’s country branding through the following brand management components: Building a strong brand; Brand positioning; Choosing brand elements to ...

Knarles and Barkley Case Study

Liabilities under Contract Law Chetum vs Knarles & Barkley Fact: Knarles wants to repudiate a contract between Chetum and Barkley.

Issue: Breach of contract. Chetum entered into a contract with Barkley that Knarles, Barkley’s father and business partner, refuses to accept. Does Knarles repudiation of the contract constitute a breach of contract?

Rule of Law: A contract must have the following elements in order to be enforceable: (1) mutual consent, manifested by offer and acceptance, (2) consideration, (3) legality of object, and (4) capable parties (Calamari and Perillo, 1998). Application: Barkley sent a contract (offer), which Chetum signed (acceptance), ...

Illegal copying of CDs is against the law and retardedchicken would have some reasons to fill out an ethical argument against CD piracy. However, the case is not clear because Overstand has not specified whether the CDs being copied are copyright protected or not. Retardedchicken could argue that it was Overstand’s perennial duties to know that unlawful copying of CDs amounts to piracy. A libertarian argument will argue that rules of copyrighting are unjustified because manufacturers of such CDs could have used copy protection software or other means to prevent people from copying them. Since, the Overstand’s ...

A promise unfulfilled or a heart left unbroken? This was the dilemma that faced Alex Mace as he stood in the rain, contemplating his next move. Across the busy street stood Mia, the love of his life. Alex wondered how and when his simple life had gotten so complicated. Was it the day he realized that he was in love with Mia? Was his hatred for her father the cause of his predicament? Or was it the promise he had made to his own father not so long ago – an oath of vengeance.

Alex went back to the time when ...