Essays on Cappelli

Introduction

There has been a great change going on in the world technologically. Technology has helped people find easier ways to perform different tasks and duties. It has reduced the time people take to perform the different tasks and duties. Technology has been embraced and applied in different areas. An example is in the production and manufacturing industries, where there are better machines that help reduce overall production cost, time, and manpower. The paper, however, focuses on information technology. Sending and receiving information has become a lot easier and faster. Some challenges come up from the technology. When it comes ...

Introduction

If an employee with access to sensitive information was terminated, then the employee is considered as an insider threat. These insiders can cause three types of threats to an organization: Sabotage, Fraud, or theft of intellectual property (IP) or data using Information Technology (IT). IT sabotage uses IT to harm the critical assets of the organization. IT can be used to steal data or IP or also for espionage by insiders. Using IT to tamper data, addition, or deletion of data for personal gain or to perform an identity crime can be considered IT fraud.

Hacker’s Targets

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Introduction

The article titled ‘Non Profits Can’t Keep Ignoring Talent Development’ is about the increasing turnover, which is a concern experienced by several organizations during the various phases. Rust et al. (1996) suggested that retaining employees is a major challenge for all organization because when organizations fail to make the employees satisfied, motivated and fell like a valuable part of the organization, they hunt for better opportunities where they can grow professionally and build on their skill set. Hiring the right kind of employees is equally important as retaining them. Organizations usually ignore this aspect of employee retention due ...

The computer emergency response team is a group that comprises of experts who handle computer-related security breach cases. Some of the other names used to refer to such a team include computer security incident response team. The origin of these expert teams can be mapped to incidences of computer viruses such as malware. These were responsible for corrupting great amounts of data and company sabotage. Most companies that have successfully established themselves and are making huge profits have adopted and implemented the CERT operations. Some companies even establish a department solely dedicated to monitoring the flow of information and ...

Employees are one of the most valuable resources that any organization has and focuses on enhancing their development. Managing the workers of an entity is also another issue whose dimensions keep changing along with other industry developments in the markets of participation. However, the environment has changed, and people have acquired more skills that require sound management practices. Managing talent in an organization is a consideration that each entity should make, but there have been many challenges in achieving that objective. One author from the Harvard Business Review indicates that talent management is a series of failures and success ...

Information Security White Paper

Abstract The growing use of computer systems and networking in the business world has resulted in an increase in information security threats. Perpetrators have developed malicious codes and spyware, which they use to gain information from business normally for financial gain. Most of the threats and vulnerabilities that are experienced may emanate from unintentional or intentional attacks. Mitigations applied to the threats depend on the threats, and it is necessary for risk assessments to be carried out to ensure appropriate technologies, processes and policies are set up to ensure information security is not compromised. Failure to have an ...

Commercialism

The ascent of commercialism is a curio of the development of corporate force. It started as a major aspect of a political and ideological reaction by enterprises to wage weights, climbing social consumptions, and the achievements of the ecological and shopper developments in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Cappelli 2014). Organizations encouraged the opposition to expense development and backing for corporate welfare, which helped make subsidizing emergencies in state and nearby governments and schools, and made them additionally eager to convey business promoting. They pushed "free market" philosophy, privatization and consumerism, while slandering general society circle. In the late 1970s, Mobil ...

This paper investigates the field of insider security in an organization. Insider attacks occur knowingly or unknowingly among employees and cause significant damages either in the form of financial or relationships between organizations and its customers, partners and legal entities. An employee in an organization gains sufficient access to critical information and systems for the sake of conducting their job mandate. The increased connectivity between employees and organizations, others operating, regionally, and internationally together with the sophisticated methods of conducting cyber crimes expounds the threat by increasing the methods of leaking confidential information.

Theoretical framework

Organizations employ a number of strategies to ...

Summary

Firms become successful and taking competitive advantage over the others, through the use of practice approach. These organizations have different management practices which distinguish between goods and services. They employ strategic management and essential business strategies which determine their competence. They have different employee management which makes them part of the company band help it meet its objectives and achieve customer satisfaction. An ideal competent firm is clearly associated with particular employee group such as customer services and better marketing strategies. Addition of the employment strategy employed by a firm makes it more competitive (Cappelli, & Crocker-Hefter 1996). Human assists ...

Motivation is a substantial factor in many organizations - there are many approaches to provide that motivation such as better pay, incentives and good working conditions, etc. If an employee is properly motivated, it leads to high levels of job performance, job satisfaction, reduced turnover and greater productivity. Those organizations that recognize their employees and motivate them properly are bound to have a satisfied and productive staff. One way in which many organizations are choosing to create greater productivity is high-performance work systems (HPWS), which consist of a combination of HR practices that are meant to make employees more effective. These include ...

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, ...

Psychological contract’: An Introduction

In 1960 Argyris gave the concept of the ‘psychological contract’. However, this concept got remarkable popularity amongst various researchers relating to organizational management. During the 1990’s the global economy witnessed an economic recession that caused major restructuring, mergers and acquisition in various organizations. Such changes also led to a new approach towards the organizations, employers and the workers. The concept of the psychological contract assisted in explaining these changes and, the renewed focus amongst employees and employers (Van den Brande, 1999).

The early definitions of psychological contract created expectations from the both the individual and the organizations. In 1989 ...