Essays on Employment

Personal Development Profile

I have studied in different environments and academic environments that have enabled me to develop both interpersonal and professional skills. I chose engineering as a technical path in professionalism and through all these endurance; I have managed to establish a greater personal profile. In the learning process, I have gained industrial experience and problem solving skills in various production processes, in the manufacturing industry. I am pursuing a degree in Manufacturing and Industrial engineering. This particular field of professionalism requires a variety of technical skills, mastery of scientific concepts as well as instinctive problem solving skills (Nguyen, 1998, p. Continue reading...

Business

Toyota Motor Company, located at 1, Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi 471-8571, Japan, was incorporated in 1937 as Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. It is among the forerunners in passenger car manufacturing, and is today, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automobiles in terms of both, units sold and net sales. Since the U.S happens to be one of its biggest markets, and the company has been able to almost double its sales in comparison to Honda Motors, it competes with other U.S car manufacturers; General Motors (GM) and Ford Motors for the premier #1 position (Toyoland, 2010). However, Continue reading...

The extent of the regulatory power of an employer within the workplace often transgreses over the right to privacy of the employees. While the court upholds many times the right of the employers to exercise regulatory power over the workplace such as the conduct of search within the employee’s workplace, the same is only limited under justified circumstances. According to Perline and Goldschmidt (2004), the conduct of workplace search is only justified when the following elements are present: (1) there is reasonable ground to suspect misconduct of the employee or there is a valid, non-investigatory and work related Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Gaining Power and influence through organizational politics has been a big issue over the years for the managerial theory and practice. The success of those in the workplace who know the art of organizational politics has made this concept a mystery and interesting subject for others and they want to learn and master this as an art. The management is involved in politics not only in profit oriented organisations but also in public sector or non profit organizations. The People working in a corporate office employ different types of strategies to attain different career benefits. Different activities and tasks Continue reading...

Introduction

Retail industry forms a part of supply chain management, it deals with sale of goods and services where in manufacturers and wholesalers sells it to the customers for profit. Retailing is done either by fixed stores, online retailing or by delivery. Retailing is classified by type of products which can be food products, durable goods or consumables. Harmonious relation between employer and employee is the most vital part for effective operation of any organization. Legislation has come up with set of rights and guide lines to be followed by employers as well as employees which help the organization to Continue reading...

Human Resource Receptionist Job Ad

Tittle of the job: Human Resource Receptionist
Description of the Job
Persons in the position of human resource receptionist perform duties related to human resource at the administrative level, directing calls to the relevant associates and answering calls. An employee in this position must have several abilities outlined below to enable him or her perform effectively. Should be able to answer calls directed to him/her and channel them to the appropriate associates accordingly. Should be able to enter relevant data in the payroll system as required. Should scan and make entries of confidential documents in the employee’s database. Continue reading...

Introduction

International Human Resource Management (IHRM) is concerned with the management of labor of a company that is international in operations. This implies that the company in question has several branches extensions of its parent company in its home country in other nations around the world (Harzing & Pinnington, 2011, p. 13). Multinational corporations are increasingly finding it necessary to conduct strategic international human resource management (SIHRM) due to the global dynamics in the manner in which businesses are conducted. The objectives of SIHRM are built to ensure that the managers are cognizant of the differences in world’s market segments Continue reading...

Conflicts are a natural part of the collective human experience. Wherever there is the involvement of choices, conflicts are bound to happen. In the current competitive world, opinion and views are highly divided and hence conflicts are inevitable (Deutsch & Coleman, 2000). In our efforts to work cooperatively and collaboratively with one another, we often have differing opinions about how best to accomplish our common goals. Conflicts in the workplace are common and they occur as result of varying personalities and perspectives. Employer and employee conflicts are the most common types of conflicts in the workplace. Conflicts most of the Continue reading...

CIO Success + Violation of Confidentiality + Labor Issues

Part A:

The Knight of Labor was one of the most prominent and important American Labor Organization during 1880’s. Formed during 18969, Knights were the first labor organization to organize both skilled and unskilled labor and also reached African American and women workers. However, the primary demand of Knights was eight hours of working in a day and their support for legislation to end the child labor. The organization believed in unit of the interest of all the producing groups, and this led to explosive growth in their membership which once reached 600000, Continue reading...

Jack Welch was the CEO and President of GE for many years. During his tenure, he transformed GE from a marginally profitable company, to one that enjoyed either a number one or number two position in each of its market segments. Welch was able to do this by using differentiation in both the way that each strategic business unit was operated, and also in the way that he used differentiation to manage GE’s employees.
After Welch retired, he wrote many books that outlined his business and management philosophies, and how he had ruled the GE Empire successfully, and Continue reading...

Performance appraisal is the process by which the performance of an employee in a particular workplace is evaluated. This is part of career development and these checks are often done for employees across all fields. There are different performance appraisal methods in existence some of which include graphic rating scales, behaviourally anchored rating scales, forced-distribution methods, and learning goals/management by objectives method and peer review. Different appraisal methods have different advantages and limitations in their use.
The graphic rating scales are one of the most commonly used appraisal methods. Under this method, an evaluator is established in order to Continue reading...

Executive summary

McDonald's Corporation was founded in 1948 with its headquarters in the United States, Illinois. The Company has diversified its operations and customer base, serving over 56 million customers in a day, in 119 countries. McDonald's Corporation deals with food and beverage products such as hamburgers, French fries, milkshakes, chicken, and desserts among others albeit the company's products vary in different countries. McDonald's Corporation has undertaken various strategic business measures in ensuring diversification and expansion across the world. In the recent past, the company has exhibited significant improvement in production capacity, product differentiation, and training and development of employees.
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Labor unions are considered to be very beneficial to employees because they advocate for their welfare over their working conditions collectively. The bargaining aims at moving economy in a better direction. Collective Bargaining is the process in which labor management representative bargain an acceptable labor agreement (Blair566). When employees bargain collectively, they get a chance to attach their benefits and wages to productivity gain of the overall economy of the state. A long standing labor organization is capable of improving the quality of future jobs. Collective bargaining results to better management and increased productivity (Blair567). Labor unions increase creation Continue reading...

With the increase in technological innovation and advancement, the employees' privacy right is highly violated. Employee information that is stored on computers and shared through the internet is not safe from the accessibility of hackers and the state. In that accord, the employees' privacy rights are at a greater potential of erosion and this calls for law enforcers to be motivated to keep pace with the violators (Levinson, 2009). Since the employee is a human being with private though, information and life, these rights must be observed by the employer, the state and the public. However, due to the Continue reading...

Introduction of the OSH Act

OSH Act was proposed due to the accidents that were being experienced in the industries. The industry- specific safety statutes were still being enacted at the period. Most of these statutes protected employees under the federal agency contractors, and those that dealt with maintenance. The health and safety issues were also limited to a number of unions that represented workers that were in hazardous industries. The most common hazardous industries back then were electrical industries, mining, construction and auto. As the incidents of industrial accidents rose in the late 1960’s, there was a need to come up with Continue reading...

Reasons why Sue failed in delegation and suggestions to help her

Sue failed in delegating the work to her employees because she piled work on them and did not care about the employee’s schedule the next day. Clearly, the employee’s had a busy day; Jodi and Ken were busy on the job for the personnel department, but Sue was not mindful of this. It is impossible for people to serve two masters; therefore, Jodi and Ken could not work on the sales material and the personnel department job at the same time. They had to choose the job that they thought was more important and abandon the other. Continue reading...

Fair treatment in workplace

The relationship between the employer, employee and all the workers must be conducive. Every player in working place has a responsibility of enhancing the wellbeing of work partners. Much time at work is spent solving conflict that arises. It is not ethical as the manager has a big role in enhancing fair treatment to all employees. The basic legal rights that employees seek involves fair wage, free from discrimination and safety in the working place.
Fair treatment in working place requires manager to exercise authority in making a decision that do not favor. All workers are supposed to be Continue reading...

Introduction

The United States has adopted a culture that promotes whistle blowing in most industries. Research indicates that organizations without proper mechanisms for reporting unethical behavior report twice as high fraud related losses compared to those that do not. Johnston (2005) stated that over 40% of all fraud cases in such companies are detected by whistleblowers in comparison to 4% by internal audits, 11% through external audits, 1% by accident, and 18% through internal controls. This shows that the whistle blowers are important and therefore should be protected by the law. However, while the whistleblower protection laws are written to Continue reading...

Business: current legal issues of Human Resource Management

Sexual harassment is sexual discrimination in the workplaces. The elements of sexual harassment include requests for sex favors, sexual conducts directed to certain individuals cause of their gender and unwelcome sexual advances.
When an employee reports that they are facing sexual harassment at the workplace, the employer is supposed to launch an investigation into the matter. An investigation should begin using a couple of processes by the employer in trying to reach the bottom of the matter. For Elora Jean, First, the parties, the victim and the harasser, should be questioned concerning the matter. First thing the investigator should Continue reading...

Many critiques of the modern day working culture have argued that the employment and bureaucracy found in the modern business organization is a form of today’s slavery. They are of the opinion that employee’s constant supervision and the lingering threat of being sacked makes them act or work not because they feel motivated, but because of the fear of unemployment. The classical school of thought believed that employees of an organization would work maximally if provided with the optimal condition of the working environment. This school of thought ignored to a greater extent the notion of human Continue reading...

Executive summary

The international human resource practices in the worldwide business require effective management to ensure unceasing existence of the global business organizations. Avon being a multinational beauty company operates globally in the manufacturing and sale of the beauty products for women, apparel and fashion ornaments. It conducts its operations in over 100 countries and does direct marketing to its consumers through 5.8 million sales representatives and it has over 42,500 associates allied to it.
This report incorporates discussions and evaluation of the strategic international human resource practices of Avon in terms of staff training and development, the reward management Continue reading...

“Employers love for free labor is even more than employers love for cheap labor”, said Daniel Raymond who worked as an unpaid intern after his MBA for Master Trust. He gave an interview and was selected as an intern least did he expected that the compensation will mean a weekly stipend for the work equal to a regularly paid employee. He is given targets; he used to go for cold calls, he made new clients and still he used to pay his own expenses. Even though unpaid internships are an extension to classroom, government should intervene because unpaid internships Continue reading...

The article reports on the study of recruiting and retaining qualified police officers. The study conducted revealed that presently it is difficult to find qualified police applicants and although the applicants would complete successful training, the process of training is extended following the growing complexity of police work (Ashcroft, Daniels and Hart, 2004). Furthermore, retaining the new qualified employees is a worrying trend because many of the new officers continue to leave the agency each year.
Suggestions for the improvement in the identified difficulties include that the police recruiters need to assess the effectiveness of existing recruiting methods and Continue reading...

Introduction

Managers can use an action plan as a mechanism of resolving both organizational and interpersonal challenges. This is mostly done by studying the behavior of how people interact with each other in the working environment, and the impact of such behavior on the organizational performance. Organizational behavior takes a close look at the human resource in order to understand what causes a given behavior. Organizational behavior also investigates on employee emotional aspects like; what can motivate employees to perform well and what causes their work to weaken. Mostly, what influences the state of an employee’s performance includes; teamwork, Continue reading...

1. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, which basic need does the Patagonia culture meet? What would it be like to work at Patagonia? What’s your assessment of the company’s work environment?
The culture at Patagonia has fulfilled the employee’s physiological, safety, and belongingness needs (Educational Psychology Interactive). As the employees are able to afford a better than basic lifestyle it suggests that physiological needs are met. The company provides its employees with job security as the turnover rate is well below the industry average in the retail sector. This indicates that the company can retain its Continue reading...

The experiences of warfare described in the two assigned sources. What was similar and different about warfare during World War I in Europe and in Africa?
The World War I was basically a war that had considerable experiences in Europe and in Africa. Through the readings one can be decode that the war in Europe was against the Nazi-led National Socialism while elsewhere the war was geared towards resisting the expansionist strategies.
One of the most notable similarities regarding the warfare in the First World War is that the combatants mainly used guerilla tactics in a bid to launch Continue reading...

Based on Module 9, describe what failed in the orientation process. Be specific and use examples based on case study.
An orientation program was normally initiated with an objective to introduce the new joiners to their jobs in a formal manner. A new employee comes to know about different aspects of their jobs through a proper orientation, as it elaborates on the information that an employee receives during the selection procedure. The main purpose of an effective orientation program is to introduce the new employee to the organization as a whole, to its co-workers and their work units, apart Continue reading...

Employees play an integral role in transforming policies of the organization into realizable goals and objectives. It is no doubt that organizations cannot perform optimally without recruiting and selecting potential employees. Recruitment exercise aims to create a pool of potential candidates in an organization (Zapounidis & Kalfakakou 2010). To ensure that organizations remain competitive, managers are responsible for using the most cost effective methods including the internet (E-Recruitment) to recruit and select potential candidates (Zinyemba, 2014). Regardless of which method(s) is used to recruit and select prospective employees, it is marked with challenges, which managers are unable to identify Continue reading...

Landfill has for quite some time now been an economical and simple way for several countries to dispose of their waste materials. However, many things have changed over recent years and there is increased interest in landfill mining. Landfill sites are overstretched and exceeding their capacity at an alarming rate. Consequently, environmental awareness and safety concerns have taken center stage. Land mining refers to the excavation of old landfill sites and re-processing their contents. There are various explanations for this newly-profound interest that transcend the technological, economic and social dimensions of landfill mining. Landfill sites comprise of materials which Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Writing a plan using a DISC assessment for a department

Writing a Plan from using a DISC Assessment for a Department
DISC is an acronym that stands for Dominance Style, Interactive Style, Steadiness Style and Cautious Style. People in the Dominance Style are said to be goal-oriented go-getters. They are at their best when in charge. Their focus is on the no-nonsense approach to bottom-line outcomes. The Interactive Style group is the kind that wants to be where the action is. They thrive on the acknowledgement, admiration and compliments that come from being in the limelight. They are relationship-oriented as opposed to being task-oriented.
The Steadiness Style group is Continue reading...

Timmy Aldrich is a high school student who has been hired to sweep up the backrooms of Smedley Bottled Gas Company’s warehouse for two hours every Friday. Therefore, Timmy works two hours a week for the company. Under the law, Timmy may be classified as an independent contractor instead of an employee. To determine whether Timmy is an employee or an independent contractor, you will want to examine such things as whether or not Timmy offers his cleaning services to other businesses. As Timmy only works for that company for two hours on Friday, he could go to Continue reading...

Part 1: Page 1

Assuming you are the arbitrators -explain your decision in this case and the rationale behind your decision:
As an arbitrator in this case, I would have maintained that nurse Kevin Hyer was at fault because of violating certain work rules, which form the fundamentals of his of his job requirement. In addition, he clearly denies having received prior training on lifting patients yet the nurse Aleesha Barber states that she had received training. Ms. Aleesha Barber further testifies that lifting patients only uses the legs and not the back. Therefore, the medical condition that Nurse Kevin seems to have Continue reading...

Owner's name: Jing Yue

Employee: Liuting Yang
Recommendation for an employee
Our Chinese Fast Food Restaurant is very popular among people. Every day we serve hundreds of customers. They prefer our restaurant because we offer a varied cuisine as well as excellent service. We have a lot of regular customers which we know in a face. Our restaurant is visited by foreigners, and we do our best to make them feel comfortable here.
Liuting Yang has been working in out restaurant for 2 years. We appreciate her for her hard work. Here are the results we pointed out during Yang’s work. She:
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Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009) was a controversial case that was decided by the United States Supreme court. The case concerned racial discrimination practices by New Haven, Connecticut’s fire department. The department had eighteen employees where seventeen were white, while there was only one Hispanic. The company in 2003 had seven openings for captain and eight positions for lieutenant. The department administered civil service examinations to fill the positions. The test consisted of two segments where one was oral and the other was written. The New Haven Department of Human Resources issued and RFP for the Continue reading...

Employee performance is an area, which requires adequate management. Management can enhance employee performance through training and motivation. Similarly, employee performance can be monitored through assessment. This exception report describes a situation in which the performance of some employees, to whom additional duties were delegated, surpassed management’s exceptions. Managing this situation is useful for the firm in several ways. One is that it will foster innovation among the identified employees through motivation and empowerment. Secondly, it will facilitate employee-rewarding process; the employees who have surpassed the management’s expectations will be presented with commendations for providing additional services Continue reading...

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In an organization, employment test is an identical sequence of queries to evaluate employee’s knowledge, expertise, aptitudes, or other individualities. Using supervisory evaluations as a criterion to evaluate tests can have its own repercussions. Validating tests tend to emphasize abstract thinking skills, decision-making ability, with evaluation of good and bad decisions or personality profiles . I believe there can be bias results in employee evaluations depending on selection rate of a demographic group, such as, whites vs. Continue reading...

Introduction:

Poverty is one of the real issues in the World. It is the main driver of numerous socio-monetary
Issues including populace blast, unemployment, and youngster work and a climbing graph of
Criminal acts. Destitution reduction ought to be the fundamental focus of the country to make it
A Prosperous and creative nation. Along these lines, neediness end is a matter of central vitality.

Destitution intimates a condition in which an individual discovers him unable to support a living

Of standard sufficient for his physical and mental productivity. They even struggles to meet their
Fundamental necessities It is extremely challenging drawing a boundary line between
Prosperity and neediness. As stated by Adam Smith, "Man is Continue reading...

This paper limits itself to discussing a wider array of issues regarding Starbucks Company. The paper will first present an overview of Starbucks mission. In addition, the beginning section of the paper will reflect on the scope of this Company with regards to the year it was established. On another note, the paper will dwell on Starbucks Company profile, which typically entails the number of retail stores affiliated to it, as well as the remunerations packages that this firm offers to its employees, from the top management to the lower level employees. Another vital aspect that will be discussed Continue reading...

Human resource management (HRM) is an idea of great relevance in the modern society. Human resources managers should advocate for career management programs in their respective organizations. Through career management, human resource managers help employees in their organizations to acquire skills. When employees acquire skills through such programs, the organization stands to benefit (Adegoke, 2013). This paper also highlights my role as a human resource manager in managing employees’ careers development. This includes describing my organization and how career management is implemented. The project also presents an analysis of how my organization can improve in career management and employee Continue reading...