Essays on Gerhart

Company Profile Analysis

Delta Corporation was established in 1998. It is a small organization managed by the family in the microcomputer market. The company developed promptly as a consequence of its disk, ophthalmic, backup drive, and inventive methods to computer hardware issues. Managers and employees of the company have all spent long hours, regularly sacrificing their individual time to get Delta Corporation off the ground as numerous are long adhered workers (Delta Corporation, n. d.). The company’s staff consists of white males by 86%, while there are two employees of female gender of other nationalities, who work in human resource management ...

Abstract

In response to the stiff competition being experienced in virtually all industries, one of the strategies that organizations can execute to boost their competitive advantage is promoting diversity in the workplace. This paper examines some of the ways firms can ensure equal employment as required by the relevant federal government agencies discussed in, “Providing Equal Employment Opportunity and Safe Workplace,” which is the third chapter of the book, Fundamentals of Human Resources Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright (2013). It also relates the issues addressed in the chapter to the article, “Workplace Diversity: A Social-Ecological Framework and Policy ...

Reasons for variation in performance rating

In a case where two employees perform the same job, and all of him or her have exemplary ratings, the evaluation team could decide to give one employee a smaller percentage merit because his pay falls within a lower quartile and give another employee a larger merit percentage because his pay falls within a higher quartile. The first quartile consists of individuals who meet minimum qualifications and have no sufficient experience (Kahn & Lange, 2014). This is basically an entry level position where those who are employed require more training to expand their knowledge skills. Due to the nature of ...

Reflection

1. Strong skills concern the responsibility for the work of the group and focus on specific tasks, without worrying about how to make complex decisions. The weak skills relate to the fact that the personality of the worker goes by the wayside. Also, authoritarianism often leads to a lack of creative solutions to current problems that may ultimately have a negative impact on the performance of the group. 2. A person with high EQ takes the initiative, finds ways out of difficult situation and solves the problem constructively. A characteristic feature of a well-developed emotional intelligence is friendliness. My ...

Employee law

Employee’s workplace rights mandated by US federal law The employees’ workplace rights as mandated by the US federal law are the set of privileges that the workers should enjoy as they carry on their stipulated duties. The employees' rights in the workplace are informed by the federal and state laws which have created regulations that define the relationship between the employees and the employer (Kelly & Kalev, 2006). The workers' rights also encompass the rights that are not necessarily mentioned in the legal statutes but implied from the legal protection (Kelly & Kalev, 2006). The rights of the employees at ...

How theories of Motivation and the Self and Organizational Culture are represented in the film The internship (2013)? If to consider human life as his/her movement forward on the path of development, we can say that life is a constant process of overcoming the new boundaries, to achieve the best results, self-development and personal growth. In this process, one of the dominant roles is played by the question of the meaning of actions and deeds, which are made by people. What does have an impact on human activity and his/her behavior? For what does the person do something? ...

The main characteristic of the activities of corporations in our time is the effective use of available modern means of communication. One of the examples of effective communication is the ability of staff to communicate with the company’s management as needed because of the implementation of the new digital marketing campaign for the famous brand. The basis of the effective communication is a systemic interaction of individuals. In interpersonal communication, corporate relationships that are the foundation of the organization are carried out. We shared responsibilities properly and every employee performed his/her duties. Then we gathered and combined all ...

Compensation increases must be determined by a workable and properly designed work performance management system. All employees of CORE must have their work appraisals to understand their contribution to the success of the business. The appraisal system will be used to rank and rate every employee, and it is that system that the compensations for the employees will be based on every end of the year to determine salary increases, bonuses and other incentives like training and promotion. This paper examines the current compensation status of CORE and from that develops a plan to manage the arbitrary compensation increases ...

People Management

Part A Graduates constitute a large pool of supply for employers in the market that has the ability of supporting business development and eventually prosperity considering that they pose as a source of highly qualified and expertise workforce for businesses to attain short-term and long-term needs. The process of attracting and employing graduates may be a daunting task in terms of its resource intensive nature; hence, businesses may need to employ a number of ways get to the graduates and secure them for the various job positions. Due to the high competition that exists between firms for the best ...

Executive summary

The purpose of the case study was to present the data on the job dissatisfaction and employee engagement of Bella’s company. The representative of beauty industry faced with problems of lower performance and increased employee turnover. The owner of the business was very concerned with such situation and wanted to make changes. The new General Manager conducted the survey in order to understand the reasons of low satisfaction. After that several alternatives were suggested to solve problems. They included material stimulation, decentralization of power, participation in leadership, training, management training, programs, career management, and training methods for employees ...

a. The concept of employee turnover among the providers of third party proposition services – literature review 5 b. Calculating employee turnover rate and its impact on business 6 c. Research questions 7 III. Evaluation of Canterbury Travels Survey Questionnaire 9 IV. Survey Plan for Evaluating the Causes of High Employee turnover rate and strategies development in hospitality 11

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The Use of Qualitative Methods Providing third-party player proposition services is a dynamic, yet poorly researched segment of the hospitality business. In particular, the practice evinces that while there is abundant data about gambling, hotel or destination management in general, the ...

Introduction

Human resource management is an essential part of each organizational process. No one organization can successfully exist without such management as it contains the main approaches, techniques, systems and policies that will help to modify and influence the behaviour of the workers, their attitude toward their job and their proficiency in the work field.

Managing Human Resources

The first chapter of the book tells us that most managers fail to understand that material resources such as invested money, equipment and facilities do not play the integral role in the managing the company (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2016). In fact, human resources management ...

Introduction

Executive performance depends on management styles. As such, leadership and management figures in an organization could either be driven by aspiration or inspiration. However, for a business to be successful there is a need for inspiring leadership skills. Inspiration results in leaders that are charismatic and dynamic, where there is a natural connection with the people. Such leaders ensure that their workers are innovative and creative. On the other hand, aspirational leaders may also be charismatic but depend more on market share, size, geographic spread, and influence more than creativity and innovation.

Explain the skills and attributes needed for leadership in your chosen organization.

There are several skills needed by a ...

I will begin by introducing myself so that as you go along with the reading of this document, you can have my background embedded as clearly in your mind. I am a male who is married now. I started working in the year 2003 as an administrative assistance and quit the job in the year 2006. Then later in 2006, I got another job as an HR specialist in a reputed organization and since then I am committed to this job. I would say that my academic background and upbringing has helped me groom my personality in a better ...

The employee performance management is a term which designates the strategies that a company undertakes to ensure that employees work within the guides of the enterprise’s objectives and goals. Coupon initiates the same in its activities by making sure that every employee remains true to his or her duties. The fundamental reason for employee performance management in the company is due to its vehement growth that has seen the company having many outlets including China and other parts of the world. In fact, being that most of its activities take place online, it becomes inherent to maintain good ...

The concept of economic development is the expanded reproduction and gradual qualitative and structural positive changes in the economy, productive forces, factors of growth and development, education, science, culture, level and quality of life, human capital. Speaking about economic development as a process, it should be understood that it is characterized not by directness of its motion, but lack of uniformity, i. e. the periods of growth and recession are inevitable. It means an increase in the scale of the total production and consumption in the country, which is characterized above all by such macro-economic indicators as gross national ...

The Selection and recruitment processes can be used interchangeably in many organizations, but the two terms differ slightly in meaning. According to Legge, K. (1995), a selection is the process of choosing the best employees to fill a vacancy in an organization from a pool of job applicants. On the other hand, recruitment is the process of identifying and enlisting the best-qualified people who express interest in the vacancy using internal and external sources in timely and cost effective manner. Selection and recruitment system, therefore, means the process followed by groups to fill the job vacancies. In government organizations, ...

The four levels of employee development entail formal education, job experience, workers’ assessment, and interpersonal relationships (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Writ, 2011). Development prepares for changes that occur in the form of new jobs, new responsibilities, or new job requirements. In this regard, formal education would involve equipping the workers with the new skills needed for the changes. On top of schooling, the employees need to develop the right interpersonal skills that would make them fit well in the new positions or responsibilities. Besides, they need relevant experiences and assessment tools to ascertain the readiness of the workers for ...

Introduction:

With the growing possibilities of work opportunities, employees have multiple jobs to choose from. One of the key influential factor to take up the decision of a job change is compensation. It motivates the employees to fulfil the expected roles and objectives assigned to them. Strategic compensation differs in such a manner that here the employee is not considered just as an overhead. The employee’s salary and related monetary benefits are directly related to the strategies that have been formulated to achieve the company’s crucial objectives that ensure the profitability and sustainability of the firm in the ...

Executive Summary

Rocky Marketing Network is faced with two issues concerning to their workforce i.e. low retention rate and poor performance that are telling upon their profitability and challenging their position with a comparison to their competitors. The current report has been prepared after a careful investigation of the causes of the reported issues. After a deep study, it was detected that both the issues are overlapping each other to a considerable extent and are the products of poor HRM performance. Furthermore, it is suggested that the company can tackle both the issues by taking appropriate initiatives, which are as follows: All these initiatives ...

The worker compensation is a sensitive issue for HR specialist because the processes and structures should be effectively managed to reduce employee revolt. Indeed, it should be highlighted that an effective employer coordinates with HR manager to develop an adequate compensation plan and budget taking into consideration organizational head count and labor expenditures. Lack of remuneration planning leads to delays in release of employee salaries, which in turn adversely impacts employee productivity, motivation, morale, commitment, trust and goal-directed behavior. In addition, the organization should fulfill any promises made about overtime, cash compensation for additional tasks and benefit costs to send a ...

What is happening to the packaging industry at the time of the case?

At the time of Sonoco’s case, the packaging industry was experiencing dynamic changes. Firstly, the packaging industry focuses on the environment. Secondly, the packaging industry is facing intense global competition due to the turbulent economic conditions. According to the case, the packaging industry is experiencing high innovation levels and development. Lastly, the packaging industry is experiencing reduced demand for its products due to the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crises (Sonoco Case Study page 3).

Cindy’s objectives

Cindy’s first objective was to increase the General Manager’s responsibility about the management of talent in the organization. The second objective was to ...

The Human Resource Strategy Significantly Develops Efficiencies Of Human Resources To Confirm To The Long And Short-Term Strategic Goals Of The Organization

Abstract

This paper is an effort to elaborate the role of human resource strategy in the development of human resources’ efficiencies and attainment of short and long-term strategic goals of the organization. Results explored that human resource strategy contributes in the development of efficiencies and lead to the achievement of strategic goals of the organization. Human resource strategy turns from reactive to proactive. It has been encountered that human resource strategy might be distant from the organization’s ...

Introduction

The role of human resource management in an organization cannot be undervalued. The decisions that come from human resource management cannot be undervalued and is hard to measure although it has a great impact in an organization. This paper will focus on the argument that it is hard to measure the impact that human resource management on the performance of an organization. This research is undertaken with the hope that there will be clear relationship and clear understanding of whether it will be possible to measure the impact of human resource management on the performance of a given organization. There are ...

The web based compensation tool is an online system that helps the organization in collecting, analyzing, manipulating, storing and distributing data as well as employee’s compensation information. The increased technology use has made it significant for a majority of companies to adopt the web based compensation tool due to the benefits that it accrues to the implementing organization. It is further revealed that the process of implementing this new tool of compensation is quite easier to execute for the company (Gueutal & Stone, 2005). The web based compensation tool has various advantages that make it suitable for use in an ...

Definition of Topic

Tuition is usually attributed to educational related costs which are incurred when a person pursues a particular course or a variety of study courses. Consequently, tuition reimbursement programs are a category of employee benefits whereby the employer compensates the workforce for the costs accrued in furthering their education. Thus, tuition reimbursement is a process where the students pay for their learning costs and are later repaid by their respective employers in the future (Martocchio, 2001). Therefore, tuition reimbursement program is a form of learning financial aid that is designed to relieve students the costs of higher learning. However, tuition reimbursement program requires that the student ...

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 ...

Introduction

I worked as a claim specialist at a City Law department, where I was entitled to massive duties, which required proper skills and understanding to execute duties appropriately. This job goes with several duties that need be carried out accordingly. I was required to arrange for a court appearance, through subpoena among other ways of witnesses required for proper presentation of a case. I was also supposed to confer with the attorney assigned to a case concerning the facts developed during an investigation as well as assist the attorney before and during trial. I could also prepare the court calendars and attend calendar calls. ...

Wal-Mart Employees experiencing Challenges with its Compensation and Benefit System

Introduction Wal-Mart is a retail chain founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in the United States. The company owns warehouse stores and department stores not only in the United Sates but in 15 other countries such as Japan, Mexico and Canada (Appendix 1). According to a report released by Fortune 500, the retail chain is the third largest publicly owned corporation in the world, the biggest employer other than national governments globally, and the largest retail company in the world (Robert & Berg, 2012). This ranking shows that Wal-Mart receives a large volume of customers, which as a result increases the risk of ...

Is Performance-Related Pay a Proven Path to Improving Employee Performance and Job Satisfaction?

Introduction This paper is aimed at understanding whether performance-related pay can lead to improvement in employee’s performance and job satisfaction. In order to answer this question, it is first of all necessary to research the nature of this payment system, analyze the reasons why employers choose it for their organizations. It is also necessary to consider its types and analyze their advantages and disadvantages. Then, it will be possible to properly understand the ways, in which performance-related pay influences job satisfaction and performance of the employees. In order to do it properly, results of various studies will ...

Introduction

In a firm in the 21st century, it is important to practice strategic human resource management. This is where the personnel activities of an organization are matched to the strategic objectives. There are several main areas where the management can ensure that the personnel activities help the organization to achieve its objectives.

EEO and Affirmative Action

The company should approach the government rules on equal employment opportunities and affirmative action for women strategically. The government prohibits the discrimination of potential employees in the employment process in any organization. One should not miss to be employed or his application to be weighed fairly due to ...