Essays on HR Department

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to make sure that ...

Human Resource Management

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility is being done. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to ...

Introduction

HRIS is an essential tool in large corporations as it helps in connecting HR management with all departmental roles. Technology is the key tool that connects organization systems and HR software. The HRIS allows the human resource management activities and process to be carried out electronically. The electronic systems and software enable the organization to undertake different activities such as management, accounting, and payroll. HRIS aims in increasing efficiency in decision making by HR (Martin, 2006). The decisions made are essential in increasing quality and productivity of both the human resource manager and employees. Furthermore, it offers different solutions ...

As the nursing executive of a general hospital with more than 1,000 beds, I need to address the nursing shortage in the emergency department. Currently, there are 19 full-time nurses working in the emergency department. That number proved to be sufficient to effectively address approximately 80% of all admissions, but it will be necessary to increase the number of full-time nurses and staff retention rates need to increase in order to further improve care delivery in the department and reduce job burnout rates. According to Buchan and Aiken (2008), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified ...

Executive Summary:

At the beginning, it is important to say that Riva is one of the famous multinational brands. It is one of the well-known brands under the umbrella of Armada Group. The company was established in 1997. Currently, Riva is operational in five countries of the Gulf region; Kuwait, United Arab of Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabian and Bahrain. Riva has more than thirty outlet stores in the region with an aim to expand to 150 by the end of 2017. The company faces extensive competition globally thus needs continuos development to match the trends in the fashion industry. Riva is ...

Introduction

Essentially, career development is a progressive process that continues even after employment. According to Noe (2010), it all starts from school work where employability happens to be the most primary goal in career development. Upon employment, career development continues through organizational as well as personal efforts. This can involve training in the case of an organization or furthering education in a personal context. Employee training could aim at organizational goals but impacts significantly on an individual’s career development.

The Role of Training in Organizational Development

Employee training refers to the enhancing of employee’s capabilities and knowledge in performing different tasks at the workplace. It ...

Introduction

The word competency has become a buzzword in every working environment, and every organization is striving to employ competent and skilled workers to enhance their general performance. However, the skill of employees is believed to deteriorate with time. The rapidly changing technologies and customers’ needs are also making many traditional skills obsolete or irrelevant. Therefore, the only solution to maintaining and improving competency and relevant skills is employee training. Adequate employee training is critical in developing new skills that have increasingly become indispensable. Also, quality customer service is one of the main factors that define the success of business. ...

Primary and Secondary Audience

The primary audience of the communication are the members of the marketing department that need to be convinced with the new web based appraisal system and the way it would simplify their appraisal system. The secondary audience of the communication is the VP of marketing. As the presentation will also ensure to the VP of marketing that he can trust the new system as an upgrade.

Audience Reaction

The audience will be interested in the way the new appraisal system will simplify things for them. After getting all the information from the presentation, the audience can be divided into people who ...

Compensation is the payment offered by an employer to an employee in exchange of the services received from him. Mostly compensation is monetary but it may include certain non monetary facilities such as housing, conveyance, insurance etc. Compensation is further divided into two general types: Direct and Indirect compensation. Direct compensation includes base wage, incentives, bonus, leave encashment etc. while indirect compensation is designed to provide additional benefits such as social security, health insurance etc and does not vary with performance. Designing a compensation plan that is satisfactory to all is a major challenge for the Human Resource Management ...

Introduction

The performance and behavior of an employee are expected to contribute to the overall achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives. However, unsatisfactory behavior or performance from an employee must be corrected through appropriate actions (Hvidman & Andersen, 2013). Corrective action follows a progressive discipline process when the situation is as a consequence of inappropriate behavior or unsatisfactory performance yet the employee has the capacity to perform and conduct himself or herself at an acceptable level but chooses otherwise (Van den Brink, Fruytier & Thunnissen, 2013). The essence of this paper is to address employees’ conduct at the Acme Company ...

Chapter 5: Findings and Discussion

In all types of organizations, including cross culture project team in all organizations, the concepts of job motivation is crucial since it plays significant roles in impacting the productivity of organization within which they operate. This study was aimed at finding factors that influence project team members motivation and how this affects the project performance within the finance industry in a multinational and multicultural setting. It was also to address factors that motivate project team members at the commencement of projects thus exploring how project managers alter them to influence the team member needs and priorities. It is the ...

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Introduction This HR audit paper focuses on analyzing the human resource management of one of the world’s most significant telecommunication organization i.e. Bell Canada Telecommunications Company. It aims at studying the effectiveness and proficiencies of Bell Canada’s HR department by analyzing its organizational structure, HR functions, and its strengths and weaknesses. On the basis of this analysis, the paper proposes some recommendations that can help Bell Canada in improving the efficacy of its HR gatherings.

Bell Canada Telecommunications Company

Bell Canada Telecommunications Company – commonly referred as Bell Canada or Bell is a Canadian media and telecommunications company, ...

HR SERVICE AGREEMENT

This HR Service Agreement defines the terms and conditions under which we provide HR specialist services to a client. This HR Service Agreement is intended for the purposes of formally setting up the relationship between YOUR COMPANY and the Powerhouse Museum and to provide the foundation for a healthy business relationship. This Agreement completes the responsibility for YOUR COMPANY to ensure the quality, compliance and timeliness of the output named in this agreement

HR SERVICES AGREEMENT

Scope This Agreement is made on July 20, 2016 by HR department of Powerhouse Museum and between HR department of Powerhouse Museum and other departments of ...

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Introduction and Overview

Emaar Properties was originally established as a public limited joint stock company in 1997, listed on the Dubai Stock Exchange. It started out as a mega real estate development enterprise operating in Dubai, but over the course of almost two decades, the company’s operations have expanded to several overseas destinations. Furthermore, Emaar Properties’ current scope of projects includes developing boutique hotels, state-of-the-art shopping malls, as well as retail projects. Catering to the high-end, luxury property customers, the principles of excellence in design and quality of materials to ensure that a superior product is delivered to the ...

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ATTN: Director, Project Support Office I have reviewed the project summary and the following are my findings and recommendations in moving forward. We are already at the midpoint and we have already accumulated a cost overrun of $59,750. Assuming that we will maintain the same performance, we will incur a total overrun of $119,500 by the end of the project. With a planned budget of $471,000 and projected actual cost of 530,750, that would be 12.7% over the budget which is too large a variance to allow. For the work done so ...

Section 1

Sydney is known for its beauty, excellence and innovation. Therefore, Powerhouse Museum in Sydney aims to demonstrate technology, arts, science and engineering at the same time. It is a contemporary museum of Australia which presents innovative arts, technology, and science at one place under the wall of Powerhouse Museum. It was established in 1879 and on an international level it is known as MAAS due to the famous exhibitions and for the caliber of their collection. The major activities of MAAS include; display of science, history, technology, decorative arts, music, and transport. Moreover, it also demonstrates Australian culture, history, ...

E-recruiting may be referred as effective and a successful application in the area of e-commerce as it provides the HR director of each organization with the possibility of reaching the large pool of potential experts for fulfillment of the available vacancies. More than that, the capacity of the advanced tools of e-recruiting has provided the employers with an option of prompt and effective identification of the skillful experts and in such manner, they are able to establish the long-term relations with the potential and promising employees. Among the core advantages of the practical application of the e-recruiting methods by ...

Judy* and Jane* are two nursing directors from facilities that use shared governance and nurse-managed health clinics (NMHC) models, respectively. Based on Judy, the shared governance model offer a chance for shared decision-making among RNs and physicians. From an HR perspective, this model enables Interprofessional collaboration to achieve ultimate staffing needs. That is, the model is a multi-faceted concept that allows for active discussions on the number and qualifications required during the recruitment process (Porter-O'Grady, 2014). Contrarily, under NMHC, Jane runs an RN practice arrangement that requires an APN leadership. This special program aims at providing comprehensive care needs ...

1. One thing I noticed in general about the meeting is that no one on the committee is really serious about the meeting and no one felt that it is their binding responsibility to solve the problems that is presented to the committee. The committee duties are not prioritized. Even the organizer and president of the committee was late for the meeting. The organization of the meeting was poor. No steps were taken to follow up on the objectives identified in the previous meeting. I sense a lack of organized and responsible conduct of the committee members. There is ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human Resource Management is responsible for attracting, selecting, recruiting, placing, recognizing, engaging, retaining and rewarding people while developing anticipated organizational culture and leadership, as well as, ensuring compliance with national and international labor and employment laws. Mostly, small to medium organizations manage their HRM activities by outsourcing their human resource functions to specialized HRM firms. Other hires few HR professionals. However, larger business corporations uphold an all-inclusive HRM functional division that is characteristically dedicated to the specialized tasks such as strategic recruitment and selection, employee engagement, and development of functional leadership across the business undertakings (Bratton & Gold, 2011, ...

Chapter VII Case Study

Introduction Discrimination implies judging individuals by their ability/disability statuses, race, gender, sexuality, age, and religion as opposed to their competence levels. People may apply for jobs where they are the best-qualified candidates. However, they could fail to get these jobs because of the HR’s discriminative practices. Such form of practice is authentic discrimination. This case study describes one such instance as follows. In July 2015, a large health care facility lost a case in the settlement of a disability discrimination suit filed by one of its employees (named Ms. X hereafter for confidentiality) through the U.S EEOC. The ...

Interview Plan

Assignment # 2 Introduction The Wilson Brothers Limited (an international company of manufacturing prepared food) advertised its job vacancy for Administrative Assistant with the Major purpose of developing reports and collecting information to provide support to the unit staff and Divisional Manager. The company published or posted its job ad on LinkedIn and the leading professional social media platforms and received job applications on email address. The ad was posted to receive applications from the external candidates. Now, the report is going to provide the interview plan for the job applicants, selection methods using selection requirement and criteria and hiring ...

Assignment 5: Employee Compensation and Benefits

Spring 2016 Choose the type of organization for which you are designing the package. Answer: The chosen organization for the purpose of designing the employee compensation and benefits package is a software consultancy firm in the city of Charlotte, located in Southwestern North Carolina. It is a small-sized private establishment with a workforce of 20 employees working in different departments. The post considered for the designing of benefits package is that of HR department secretary. Develop an employee compensation and benefits package for this new position. Support your ideas for the compensation/benefits package. Answer: The current compensation and benefits ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

Introduction

Effective Human Resource (HR) Manager is tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that the organization retains its employees. HR department manager should be able to analyze workforce data so that he or she can be able to adopt effective strategies for staff retention. In light of the relevance of staff retention strategies, this paper will utilize the Tanglewood case study to identify the most significant problem, determine whether Tanglewood has functional or dysfunctional turnover, the various concerns of the interview and ways of making the data relevant, determine whether the survey is comprehensive and determine possible data that could ...

Executive Summary

Organizational change is the best approach for Wengart to take if it is to eliminate customers’ complaints and create a motivated workplace environment. In spite of the fact that its leaders seem to disapprove the ability of TQM model to create desired changes, it is imperative that all managers understand that one of the essential qualities of leaders is the ability to transform theoretical knowledge into practice through critical thinking. Kotter’s eight stage change model, in this case, improves the ability of every stakeholder to act accordingly since the model provides clear guidelines on how Wengart could develop ...

High Turnover in Hospitality Industry in USA and Strategic Way to Solve the Turnover Problem

Introduction Currently, the hospitality industry taking a new route to lead in most economies. The industry is growing at a rapid rate, which is something for celebration. The biggest challenge is the employee turnover. Kim and Jogaratnam, (2010, p. 320) report that a big portion of up to thirty-three percent of the hotel money goes to labor. The current turnover in the hospitality industry settled at thirty-one percent (Batt, Lee, and Lakhani, 2014, p.17). This percentage is very high when broadly looked at concerning the disadvantage of employee turnover to businesses. The culture of the company is always affected ...

Chapter 7: Review of Case Study 7-3. Beth Ann Faragher v City of Boca Raton

Chapter 7: Review of Case Study 7-3. Beth Ann Faragher v City of Boca Raton Sexual harassment and gender discrimination are common problems in many organizations including fire service police organizations. In this case, the US Supreme Court rightly held the city to have been vicariously liable for the misconduct of its supervisors towards Faragher. According to Bennett (2008), the lesson that fire department can learn from this case is that they should have in place clearly written policy on sexual harassment in order to avoid such liabilities (p.89). The court also noted that had the department had a ...

Introduction

Contemporary business landscape places numerous pressures on the companies. Some of the major challenges for the modern corporation, operating in the increasingly diverse environment, is to ensure consistent ethical business practices at all stages of the business. Globalization and the international supply chain made this task even more complex, as the social and environmental responsibility of organization is extended not only to direct employees, but to external stakeholders, such as suppliers, customers and Third-party logistics providers (3PLs). The modern consumer is becoming increasingly aware of social and environmental issues and, consequently, more demanding with regards to the approach that ...

INTRODUCTION ANDBACKGROUND/HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS

Qatar Cultural Creativity Center was established in 2005 following the decision of the President of General Authority of youth no. (2) for year 2005. The board of directors was constituted in 2012 following the decision of Minister of Culture, Arts, and heritage no (116) for year 2012. The Cultural and Creativity Center is a Not for Profit Organization. The Cultural Creativity Center targets the youth and aims at equipping them with both hard and soft skills that fosters the discovery of personal abilities (Ame Info). The Center teaches skills such as how to write and publish a book, how ...

Internal and external Recruitment

Recruitment is the process of filling vacancies in an organization with candidates who satisfy the requirements of a job description. It is one of the most important functions of the Human Resource management. Recruitment consists mainly of two types (1) Internal Recruitment (2) External Recruitment Internal recruitment – Internal recruitment is the process of filling the vacancies from within the organization, through promotions or transfers. The HR managers are informed about the vacancy and they go through the personal portfolios of all potential candidates including their performance appraisal reports to short list candidates fulfilling the description. These candidates may be ...

Three Ways of Coping with Negative Emotions

Human Resource Management (HRM) has evolved over decades, transforming from a supportive organizational function to one of the most important strategic elements of the contemporary organizations. Globalization and internationalization of supply chains make companies become increasingly concerned with HRM as they recognize the importance of people as the major competitive advantage. With that in mind, HRM looks at retention rates and employee motivation as one of the core responsibilities of the department.While hiring and training are significantly important for reaching effective and productive operations; downsizing or simple employee layoff is another important function of HRM, which can affect not ...

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Introduction / Background

The purpose of this document is to provide all management levels within the Airline Company with the basic outline of the philosophy, policies, procedures and practices. This document is the General SOP which provides a high-level overview of the operational regulations and HR practices for the United States and Canada. It and does not have as an aim to explain the tactical level of operations of ...

Political Science

About the Company Opello Tyres is a brand name synonym with great comfort and design, which provides great driving maneuvering and experience. Opello is a tyre manufacturer and retailer having market presence in more than 45 countries. Opello has made a strong brand reputation in the tyre industry based on their 35 years of experience in building tyres of cars, trucks, two-wheelers, etc. Opello has approximately 130 corporate offices and 12,000 employees based in different parts of the world. At the end of the 2015-16 financial year Opello’s turnover was $4.88 billion. Opello is traded on the ...

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Human Resource Management in an industry which is centered on its consumers or customers is focused on the people dimension of the organization. For achieving the objectives and the goals of the organization, Human Resource Management has to perform certain functions. Typically it has been stated that for the purpose of achievement of the objectives of the organization, one must establish a proper relationship between the functions of the organization and the organizational goals and objectives. This section of the essay shall be focusing on the human resource functions which are considered to be primary actions on the part ...

Organization Value and Business Reflection Topic

Introduction Business management is a fascinating topic, more so when the lessons in the class are integrated with real-world case studies. The integration offers the students opportunities to employ the management skills learnt in the class through creative thinking and problem solving approaches to provide solutions to real business problems. The experience equips the learner with practical skills that enables the student to be an economic productive person in the society. The paper will evaluate the critical management skills the author has leant in the class. The paper will review management functionalities in the firm, relevance of effective communication ...

The Human Resource function has undergone a massive change since its recognition as a separate function in organizations. Originally conceptualized as an area which dealt with selection, recruitment, promotions, retirements, and Wage and salary administration, it gradually added organizational behavior components like leadership, teamwork, motivation, performance etc. in its portfolio. With globalization of business operations, certain issues like diversity management, ethics and social responsibility were added into its framework. After the introduction of IT, the HR functions became more complex, though accessibility became easier with internet enabled platforms. With the demands of the function, HR professionals had to equip ...

Part 2

For the purpose of hiring a construction project manager, we have to explore a number of screening methods and discuss the pros and cons of each. The popular methods of screening include screening resumes, cover letters, and reference letters; conducting interviews on the phone or simply screening interviews, screening tests, questionnaires, reviewing the bio data and much more. We will look into a few methods now.

Resume Screening

Once the resumes for the vacancy of Construction Project Manager are received, the first step is to review each and every resume carefully. Experts in HR look for keywords, formatting and quick information ...

The hiring process of giant IT companies such as Google, Microsoft has been moved to the online based requirement portals. The online portals are the reflection of future trends that the industry is facing at this moment. Companies have focused on building a base full of talent instead of just hiring employees based on so called interview system. The online recruitment system is an efficient platform for the recruiters to meet their requirements of hiring talent. Microsoft isn’t an exception. As a leader on the respective industry, it always focuses on hiring individuals with talents through its unique ...

Introduction

HRM is defined as the process of planning, establishing, directing and supervising human actions in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization (Dessler, 5). Ethics on the other hand, refers to values that have been imbibed within individuals in an organization that enable them to act accordingly and differentiate between right and wrong. There are many sources of ethics such as organizational culture, legal obligations and religion among others. Ethics in HRM indicates that employees should be treated with distributive justice and ordinary decency (Dessler, 28). Fair treatment of the employees contributes greatly to the attainment ...

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 ...

Abstract

As a staffing consultant for the prestigious Sincere College, we have been assigned the task of setting up a recruitment plan for a vacant position. The position is for the Associate/Assistant Professor for the subject of Business Ethics at the Davis Business School. We have been provided with the job description and on the basis of it, we have recommended advertisement as a powerful tool for attracting applicants. Screening, short listing the candidate followed by formal interview sessions has been mentioned in detail. Elements included in the employment confirmation letter have also been included in this paper. Training becomes ...