Essays on Retention

Section 1 - Decision-Making Techniques Applied Now or in the near Future at Gentherm Incorporated of the United States

In my organization, there are two broadly used decision making techniques that have their own application specific to the management needs they satisfy. They are described in detail in the following manner:

Decision Matrix

This decision making technique is used to identify and evaluate possible alternatives to any given concern or problem for arriving at a most feasible decision. It involves creation or designing of a table containing several columns where the very first column different options or alternatives considered for making a particular decision. All those factors that have a direct and indirect on decision making process and the solution, ...

The corporate world is characterized by different leadership styles. The leadership style chosen may result in either profits or losses. The chosen leadership style often depends on a leader’s personality and perspective on different issues. There are those who believe that leadership involves making all the decisions; therefore, adopt an industrial approach. However, most successful leaders believe in dialogue before making any decision. These leaders consider the views of all relevant stakeholders; thus, embrace a servant leadership perspective. John Mackey, CEO, and co-founder of Whole Foods has been termed as a controversial and liberal leader. Mackey’s leadership ...

Human Resource Management

Gap Incorporated.

Executive Summary3

1.Company Overview and Introduction6 1.1 Company mission..6 1.2 Company vision.6 1.3 Sources of revenue.7 1.4 Industry information and Market share.7 1.5 Number of employees and their demographics..8 2.Problem Definition and Research Objectives..10 2.1 Problem.11 2.2 Decision statement12 2.3 Research objectives12 3.Business Case for Business Research14 4. Research Plan and Methodology.16 4.1 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data17 4.2 Secondary Data Collection.19 4.3 Primary Data Collection Tools20 4.4.Sampling Approacp0 5.Survey22 5.1 Survey Design Rationale.22 5.2 Focus Group Questions Rationale24 6. Implementation and Communication Plan26 6.1 Implementation Plan26 6.2 Timeline..28 6.3Budget..29 6.4 Communication plan30 8. References.32 7. Appendices

A: Survey Questions.34

B: Focused Group ...

Ratios are important in the health organization in that they show the efficiency and utilization of the assets used in the organization (National Nurses United). In addition, ratios are used to point out the relationship between some variables which in are used to evaluate health organization effectiveness and performance regarding patient’s outcome, asset utilization and public evaluation (National Nurses United). For instance, proper staff ratio in health organizations regarding nurses available and the patients to be attended to by caregivers is one such area where ratios can be used. Maintaining adequate staffs in health organization will determine the ...

Technical communication in workers’ health and safety training

Introduction Technical communications encompasses an array of means used to convey scientific or technical information, that is, the information that has both the qualitative and quantitative aspects as shown by Mehler, Romary and Gibbon, D. (2012). As such, the mobile team division involved in this type of communication is quite diverse with such variations as age, profession, education level, gender as well as experience among other diversities. For instance, the mobile division team will include labor union officers, nurses, safety specialists, health officers and communication and information technology technicians. Therefore, the pre training will have to address the diversity ...

“Effectiveness of Social Media Performance Metrics in the Attraction and Retention of Customers.”

CHAPTER ONE Problem Statement Social media has emerged as a contemporary platform of communication which has revolutionized the way people communicate with one another by creating a seamless network through which social media users can engage and interact with one another across the world (Marshall, 200, pg.20). The effectiveness and ease of use of these platforms has subsequently resulted in the emergence and mass subscription to these pages by millions of users across the world since they were first created over the last ten years (Sponder, 2011, pg67). These social media websites include Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pintrest and Snapchat ...

Introduction: Quality Tools Discussed In the Article

The main quality tools discussed in this article are SIPOC, fish bone, pareto, brainstorming and benchmarking. SIPOC is an acronym that refers to Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs and Customers. It is a process improvement tool that helps team members agree on a common course of action in quality management. Fish bone is used to identify a different cause to an existing problem. Benchmarking involves comparing an organization’s quality policies to industry standards. Pareto analysis is used to indicate problems that need more attention than others do. Brainstorming is a process of generating multiple ideas about quality problems (Schindler, ...

Response to Question One

Various factors have led to the current decline in diagnosis, linkage to care, retention of care, initiation of ART, and adherence among infected persons. These fields are part of the broad HIV/AIDs care continuum. Every year, the United States undertakes a campaign aimed at encouraging citizens to go for HIV/AIDs testing. However, there has been a significant drop of around 30% in the number citizens tested. There are several reasons that might have led to this decline. For example, many people are unaware of the possible risks of HIV infection that they might be exposed to. In other words, ...

According to Moroko and Uncles (2009), while branding has historically been associated with company products and services, business organizations are finding it increasingly important to carry out employer or company branding. This is mainly in an effort to convey a message or impression that they are the best recruiters and their workplace is the best to help potential employees realize their career dreams and goals. Employer branding as a matter of fact has become an important tool for the management due to shortage of skilled workers and stiff competition among companies to hire and retain the best workforce for ...

Benefits resulting from Due Diligence for Responsible Business Report

CSR generates benefits for a business internally as well as for the external stakeholders. However, it is challenging to monetize the benefits of the CSR since much of the benefits are only visible in long run. In addition, the challenge comes from the fact that they are indirectly led to by the positive changes of the CSR (Sino-German, 2012). On the other hand, whether firms are likely and able to practice the CSR is highly dependent on their managers’ incentives as well as constraints that are in turn determined by their preferences, contracts, ethical beliefs and objectives. The major ...

Introduction

The article picked in this essay is that of rapid eye movement’s role in emotional memories processing. The article refers to earlier done research and also presents a research recently done to investigate the purpose REM sleep plays in retention of emotional memories. In order to access the article, I went to the http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/, I then clicked on the arrow at the databases by subject list and picked psychology, next I select PsycINFO, I ticked the peer reviewed sources only box so as to limit the search and also selected the last 3 years option to further narrow ...

1. Introduction Undeniably, the heart of the corporate business world is accounting; however, auditing plays an indispensable role in accounting. It serves as the watchdog for all the stakeholders against any malpractices. In a nutshell, auditing serves to protect the interest of the stakeholders. However, the practice is not without some regulations and standards for quality and performance measurement and control. Auditing standards generally form the basis against which audits’ quality are not only performed but also judged. Almost all institution have adopted some forms of auditing standards and principles. A notable feature, however, is that such standards vary ...

Part 2

The return will be computed using the yield to maturity formula. YTM captures all the relevant information in the valuation. 1)

Corporate bond

YTM = C+(F-P)/n(F+P/2 C is the coupon payment = 10.125% *1000 = 101.25 F is the face value = 1,000 P is the price = 879.625 N is the periods to maturity = 25 YTM = 101.25+(1,000-879.625)/25(1000+879.625)/2 = 11.6%

Government Bond

YTM = C+(F-P)/n(F+P/2 C is the coupon payment = 6.825% *1000 = 68.25 F is the face value = 1,000 P is the price = 975.42 N is the periods to maturity = 25 YTM = 68.25+(1, ...

Financiers’ Standpoints

Being a hotel manager, the Earth Care Project may be an effective addition to monetary acts of the Kimpton’s hotels as these projects are engaged in an international problem, they may promote competitive benefit, behave eco-friendly in order to appeal clients, and advance strategic tendency and the identity of Kimpton. The promotion of an environment appears significant problem of civic. Numerous clusters of investors showed improved tendency while taking activities to advance eco-friendly trading engagements. The role of media as well showed effective outputs for organizations that are engaged in executing green procedures and assert critics on every ...

Beside the basic set of indicators that are used to estimate the effectiveness of the company (profitability; ROI; ROA), management can also use some specific figures to describe the processes related to production, research and development, human resources, etc. One of such figures is employee turnover and retention. Employee turnover is basically a proportion of employees who leave organization over a determined period, usually expressed as a percentage out of total workforce. Separations usually include voluntary resignations either dismissals, retirements or transfers to other branches (In Biron, 2014). On the contrary, internal movements like promotions, transfers, etc. are not ...

Executive Summary

An interview with Debbie Curtis, Officer Manager for Central Pump Company in Center, Colorado revealed several flaws into the HR issues of the company which has about 20 employees. Though she handles almost all the issues such as training and development, succession of employees, the retention of quality employees, managing employee performance, resolving conflictions, correcting performances and disciplining performances, there are no formalities and policy documents to support the same. The strategic contribution of the current HR deliverables is basic and it cannot support the attainment of sustainable growth and development. At a personal level Debbie is contributing towards ...

The health care facilities and hospital will now develop policies about health record retention in order to make sure that the health records comply with the policy in regards to all the appropriate federal and state policies implemented. The standards should also be met in order for the hospitals and other healthcare facilities to be accredited. In addition, the policies for health care retention will able to meet the needs for patient-care in the future and help control the cost of the labor, equipment, and space for record storage. Nowadays, the health care industry enforces the control of cost ...

The preceding report has yielded the following findings:

Asda is one of the largest retailers in the British market. Asda is willing to liquidate its flaws in order to ensure customer satisfaction and increase consumer base connection to the brand. Improvements manifest themselves through an increase in the number of stores and the enhancement of the quality of services provided, including the online ordering of home delivery, email sending, and club cards.

Improvements are expected to convert customer satisfaction into stable repurchase behavior.

Asda is taking great pains to generate new ideas stimulating the happiness of consumers following their purchase experience. With readiness to change and openness to new ideas in mind, the company will most likely be ...

Manner in which Use of the Met Cognitive Perspective Improve Academic Performance

Met cognitive perspective or approach refers to those techniques and strategies that help teachers as well as students use appropriate skills and competencies for solving a given problem. By using these approaches, students can become successful learners at an early age. Meta-cognitive perspective tends to increase academic performance because in individual is able to plan daily activities and self-regulation concerning academic endeavors. Meta cognitive perspectives help students to ask questions they need answered that stimulates their collaborative leaning and problem solving. Learners can analyze their own assumptions and concepts using Meta cognitive perspectives. Moreover, this perspective facilitates learners to ...

Academic nursing as a career choice offers the opportunity to impart knowledge and mold the incoming generation of nursing professionals. Therefore, in itself, academic nursing is a fulfilling career path. Presently, however, there is a remarkable shortage of nursing educators across the country. The situation on the ground is an aging faculty of nursing lacking enough fresh blood to replace them. This comes at a time when there is an urgent shortage in nursing Vis a Vis the growing healthcare system. Professionals in Academia are responsible for molding and producing nurses in practice. School administrators in recent years have ...

A Dissertation Methodology

The electro-microprobe technology Modern geochemists (Donovan et al, 2003) generally agree that modern electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) is bringing the most precise and most accurate chemical analyses for solid specimens today. Moreover, these highest-quality results can be brought to routine achievements under carefully crafted analytical protocols. The modern EMPA technology already incorporates qualitative and quantitative analytical methods in a non-destructive mechanism even from micron-sized samples of surface materials at a sensitivity of many parts per million (ppm) (Cameca, 2012). In fact, a number of EMPA equipment today can incorporate one or two others of the four major surface and ...

Introduction

Statistics reveal the United States classifies over 99 percent of enterprises as small businesses. Accordingly, “These businesses are responsible for at least half of: private sector employees, highly skilled and trained employees, new jobs created, and the private gross domestic product (nonfarm)” (Fox 77). Effective processes of strategic business and human resource management planning collaborate providing small businesses a competitive edge attaining a market share of their particular industry. Fundamental to this is understanding the role theories play in strategic planning. At the same time, according to Hargis and Bradley, “In contrast to the deliberate, and proactive, structuring of ...

What are the key characteristics of an e-business strategy model?

Answer. A strategic business model gives a framework which presents a logic sequence of all the key activities for developing an e-business strategy. There are some standard strategic business models developed for e-business like Enders model (2008), Johnson & Scholes (2006) , McDonalds (1999) , and Smith (1999) (Chaffey, 265). These models have their applicability varying from one e-business to another depending upon the nature of business and product offered. Still, the key characteristics of an e-business strategy model are: Situational analysis- This includes the assessment of internal and external environment for the business. The internal environment stands for resources, work culture, ...

Retention of employees is critical to all organizations. This is because organizations incur costs in training employees. Besides, losing employees disrupts employees as new employees have to be looked for and trained until they reach the efficiency of the employees who exited. Therefore, losing employees is a setback to any organization. There is extensive research on factors that result in employee retention. One of the most common factors and widely researched is employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction refers to how whether employees have a pleasurable feeling from their current job engagement. There are various factors that motivate employees thus making ...

Political and Legal Environment

The American airline industry is impacted by the legal restrictions and regulations related to competition, tax policy and international trade. The airline industry is also impacted by political factors such as terrorism, war and outbreak of diseases for example: Ebola (Cederholm, 2014). Southwest Airlines operates in a highly regulated American aviation industry with rules related to ethical competition, trade restrictions and tax policy. The U.S. government has strong regulations related to air travel and incoming passengers and require airlines to comply with their regulations. The political environment was heavily affected during the 9/11 terror attacks and economic recession as ...

Personal Assessment and Sales Evaluation

Executive Summary

This paper is written on January 2016, at a younger career development phase as a marketer. The paper is a self-evaluation plan that discusses my personal potential, my dimensions of life and even my successful life. This article is written for my personal development through self-evaluation; however, this paper is partly for my professor, as it is an assignment. Hopefully, this exercise will enable me deeply uncover the deeper parts of my personalities and capabilities that have been unknown to me. The exercise also hopefully allows me to learn different techniques required for my marketing profession.

Scope of Paper

The ...

Globalization is a concept which has gained significant popularity in the business arena. Every organization wishes to expand beyond its national borders so as to serve the global market as well as gain more revenues. So is the case with companies operating in the maritime industry. In order to grab more market share, build long term relationships in the industry and establish sound image at international level, shipping companies are making use of several strategies. Mergers, acquisitions and alliances are common strategic options employed by the maritime industry to achieve long term objectives (ClilT, 1990). In the given scenario, ...

CAN WEAK SELECTION PROCESSES BE SOLVED THROUGH TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT?

Introduction

Employee performance is a crucial aspect of all organizations in both developed and developing nations. For entities to become sustainable, workers have significant roles to play to ensure that they achieve a competitive advantage over others around the world. In this regard, selection processes have a critical place in the performance of organizations. There is the need to recruit committed and productive workers so that they are in a position to attain the targets set by organizations (Armstrong & Taylor 2014). Companies are now concentrating on getting appropriate human capital since employees are ...

Introduction

Marketing is a strategic discipline that underpins other business activities and a corporate strategy (Groucutt and Hopkins, 2015, p.3). However, what is essential is that the business meets the needs of the customers. Typically, the interface between marketing and other business functions takes two forms; firstly, it is essential in developing business plans by coordinating with financial, personnel, procurement, R & D plans, and other strategic functions. Besides, marketing allows for the incorporation of marketing inputs in other corporate plans. Therefore, the relationship between marketing and other business functions such as finance, production, accounting, procurement, among others, is necessary for the ...

Question No.1

1ST ISSUE: WHETHER S 16 OF DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT IS VALID

The provision is invalid on the grounds of unconstitutionality. Article IV, s 1 of the US Constitution provides “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.” The Court, in Mills v. Duryee, 11 U.S. 481 (1813) explained that the Full Faith and Credit Clause means that not only are records of public acts, records and judicial proceedings in one state admitted in another, but their effects as well. Section 16 should, therefore, ...

Psychology

Psychology In psychology there are three main types of parenting. They include Authoritative, Authoritarian, and the permissive parenting styles. The Authoritarian parenting style involves the parent feeling the need to control the actions of the child. The parent values highly obedience and respect and usually feels superior to the child. The child develops fear due to the harsh punishments given. Children of Authoritarian parent develop poor social skills and competences. In extreme cases the children may develop insecurities and have ant-social tendencies.

The Permissive parent has no control over the child. The parent avoids confrontation and does ...

Hospital administrators need transformational leaders who can manage personnel crises in order to maximize staff retention and patient satisfaction. Transformational-leader candidates can be identified among students and graduates engaged in managerial studies, as well as among executives in other fields (Rudnick Jr., 2007). Hospitals’ administrative employees and working staff (doctors, nurses) also represent potentially significant sources of transformational leaders. They are familiar with the specificities of health care environments, and with the procedures of their respective health care institutions. While this makes them suitable candidates for hospital administration positions it is not sufficient for managerial positions, least of all ...

In order to answer the research problem and look for ways to control put the number of graduate teachers high, a number of factors ought to be considered. In general, the issue of programme requirement, capacity or filling the shortages of the critical areas, accreditation and certification as well as approval ought to be factored in (Blase & Blase, 2004).

Firstly, is for the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) to scale up the collaboration between the arts and science faculties, so that any gap or imbalance that may exist is filled. It is a common phenomenon ...

Part A: Your Marketing Plan

Executive summary Business operations are dependent on effective planning. Admittedly, the most fundamental facet is marketing plan. As such, a marketing plan generates an overview of the approach that an organization will inculcate in ensuring brand growth, awareness and sales within the market of operation. Marketing plan necessitates an effective blue print that an organization incorporates towards sustaining profitability, shareholder returns and necessitating returns on the investments made. Accordingly, from the evaluation of AHA beverage company, a marketing plan forms a plausible tool towards the launching its AHA vitamin water. Thus, through the inculcation of the marketing plan, the organization will ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

Abstract

Background: This research is based on the background that human resource management and activities in the health sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is generally not evaluated as a unique component of independent studies. However, there is evidence that human resource management in the healthcare sector is very different from that of other sectors around the world. Therefore, the study sought to study the demographics, education, experience, career development and levels of job satisfaction amongst HR professionals in hospitals in Riyadh.

Methods: The study evaluated various components of the HRM practices and processes of hospitals in Riyadh. All ...

Abstract

This is a Laboratory Journal of Organic Chemistry Note for synthesis reaction data obtained in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory — all information was experimentally conducted. This article should be used as a reference when conducting your own synthesis reactions.

The three synthesis reactions covered in this experiment are all substitution reactions. The first synthesis is a reflex reaction leading to yielding of primary alcohol, and involves 2 reactants – NaBr and H2SO4. Since it is bimolecular in nature, it can be easily classified as a Sn2 reaction.

The second synthesis can be carried out easily in the presence of only one ...

1. Aims of the Dissertation: Because of the global demand by customers for excellent services in the hospitality industry business operators need to quickly recruit employees who then receive limited preparation and training. This often results in poor job performance, employee dissatisfaction and high staff turnover. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the remote causes and outcomes of staff turnover that is endemic and a contentious issue in the hospitality industry. In this research, the author will attempt to address the operational challenges facing the hospitality business by identifying some causes in addition to those given above ...

Q1. Most contemporary Australian organisations any set of generic best practices'.

Ans. 1. In today’s highly competitive framework, organizations need to develop and maintain competitive advantages and this could be acquired through developing efficient and committed work forces that have the capability to perform in accordance with the specific organizational goals. So strategies befitting institutional context would be appropriate for mobilizing the work forces in to desired action. High commitment human resource strategies are found to be effective in improving organizational performances especially by motivating the work forces to perform in alignment with the organizational requirements. ...

History and Values

Whole Foods Market Company was founded in Austin, Texas by of Safer Way Natural Foods and Clarksville Natural Groceries. The four businessmen believed that natural organic food must be available for purchase in separate supermarkets. For this reason they opened their first market in 1980 with only 19 employees. The success that followed transformed a small supermarket into a foods supermarket chain, operating more than 300 stores in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom (“About Whole Foods”, n. d.). Over the years Whole Foods Market has proven itself as a socially and environmentally responsible company. Among its core values are satisfying ...

Introduction

A visual material can refer to various elements within the electronic sector. Such elements considered as visual materials are photographs, paintings, drawings, designs and even prints (Sharma, 2006). Others include films, video and cartoons. Either, analysts argue that the three dimensional art works that include elements such as sculptures or any other architectural that can possibly be categorized as fine art can also be considered to be a visual material. There are also documentary recordings that are also considered to be of visual in nature. Analysts argue that there are those visual materials that are most like to be one ...

Introduction

Transformational leadership is associated with a positive environment meant to attain organizational change, transforming the actual order into a more benefic one for employees, clients and other stakeholders. In the health care domain, transformational leadership stays at the heart of employees’ satisfaction, staff retention, strong hospital administration, with satisfied patients (Robbins & Davidhizar, 2007), likely to become loyal patients (Worman, 2008). Transformational leadership effects also include reducing burnout, decreasing the overall level of employees’ stress, while increasing the level of staff well-being (Weber, 2010). However, the nature of health care system is an atypical one, because, as Rudnik Jr. (2007) observes, it deals ...

The orientation systems at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines are the same for all nurses. The subjects usually attend a four to five-week formal class from where they are expected to learn the skills and competencies required for the job. The new nurses are joined by a preceptor whose main objective is to give practical insights to the discussion. Their readiness for the job will be evaluated through a series of assessment activities. A clinical resource nurse may also be requested to gauge the suitability of new recruits to the positions they will fill in. After the probationary period, the orientation ...

- Introduction The importance of training and development in any sector cannot be underscored more. The work environment requires that the staff is taken through periodic training and development sessions so that they can hone more skills in order to deliver their mandate. According to Okotoni & Erero (2005, pg.2), training and development ensures that employees can execute both major and minor elements of their mandate. In this regard, it is important for that all the players in both the public and private sector acknowledge the need for training and development in all work related programs. This dissertation focused ...

Introduction and Topic of Discussion Chosen

The topic of discussing that I have chosen to expand on is ‘Using Multimedia to Engage Learners’ that is found in Chapter eleven. The chapter discusses a wide range of media elements that can be engaged at different levels when it comes to educating learners. Most of the media elements discussed in this chapter are common to most individuals including the students thus they are conversant with them. These elements form part of the larger multimedia objects that include texts messages, video recordings, models, audio visuals and to some extent real objects that helps students to undertake demonstrative learning. This ...

Living in a global economy and benefiting of technological advancements that facilitate working processes help individuals in shaping their careers and organizations in increasing their performances but a special asset is required for effectively optimizing and valuing these resources. Kaye and Scheff (2000) consider that for properly optimizing the skills and capabilities of their talents, corporations need to ensure their intellectual legacy through mentoring, a process of sharing wisdom through life experience.

United States Office of Personnel Management (UNOPM) (2008) describes mentoring as a formal or informal relationship between people, wherein one is a senior mentor and the ...

Article summary-No strings attached?’: How attribution of disinterested support affects employee retention. Authors: Mignonac & Richebe

The article “No strings attached?: How attribution of disinterested support affects employee retention” is a presentation of research that mainly focused on finding out the employees’ attribution of disinterested organizational support that is the support seen by the employees as not coming from an underlying calculation, relates with retention of the employees in the organization. Disinterested support of the employees by the organization is a vital issue in human resource management as the main goal of human resource management is to ensure a good working relationship between the employees, management and their working environment. Finding out the effect of lack of support ...

Introduction

Spinal hydatid disease is a rare form of hydatid disease caused by the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus (Baysefer et al., 297). Dogs are primarily the definitive hosts of E. granulosus with man and sheep serving as intermediary hosts. Hence, the disease is prevalent in sheep-rearing communities (Emara & Elhameed, 12). Hydatid disease in man begins with ingestion of ova-contaminated water or food. The egg hatches in the intestines and the larvae migrate into the lungs and liver via the portal venous system. According to Prabhakar et al. (426), osseous hydatid disease is a rare secondary disease with an incidence of 0.5-2%. ...

Engineering

1.0 Dependence of Relative Permeability on Petrophysical Properties

Carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the atmosphere from sources such as power plants, oil exploratory and production sites and traffic pollution from fossil fuel-burning vehicles. CO2 exists in high concentrations in the atmosphere which increases the impact of the greenhouse gas phenomena which makes the global warming problem worse. The relative permeability of soils is linked to finding a solution for removing large concentrations of CO2 by sequestering CO2 in appropriate geological formations. Data from a study by Bennion and Bachu (2005) is available online at the Relative Permeability Explorer. The Explorer is ...

1. Executive Summary

UniTour (short for “Uniting Tourism”) is a niche travel service provider that offers affordable prices for families and young groups of people. UniTour targets people who want to take a break from the technology and enjoy the genuine virtue of real-life communication. The second major target segment are families with communication problems. With the help of UniTour’s special services, its customers can experience a truly unique vacation that improves their relationships and encourages them to get to know each other better. UniTour’s motto is “No cellphones. No laptops. Only what truly matters.”

Key components of ...

Our annual employee turnover rate is 38%. Prior to this fact-finding report no attempt was made to formally track employee turnover so the past turnover history is not documented. Downsizing or restructuring is now the primary reason employees leave their jobs. Another important reason people leave their jobs is to find new challenges and opportunities. Downsizing accounts for more than 50% of applicants encountered by recruiters, new challenges and opportunities account for another 30%. . As we are trying to expand, these two elements do not contribute to our high turnover rate. Opportunities and challenges resulting from our expansion are ...

Customer centric marketing is a marketing approach that focuses on the needs of individual customers rather than the needs of the firm or a market segment. Traditionally, product based companies, have primarily focused on logistics and manufacturing. Basically, this entails improving efficiency. Similarly, for service based companies, the primary focus has been on the delivery of quality services. Customer service marketing in both product based and service based companies seeks to put the needs of the customers at the center of every core business processes. The sales and marketing departments of organizations interact with customers more frequently compared to ...

Introduction

Web Tech Solutions is a company that specializes in the provision of services related to web technologies such as web development, web design and web hosting. In addition, the company also offers online advertising services. The presentation will provide an outline of the company’s vision, mission, and core values. Furthermore, a balanced score value will also be highlighted with a view of showing the strategic plan of the organisation.

Vision, Mission, Values

The vision of the company is to provide web development and online advertising services at the most affordable rates in the market. The vision is accompanied with the mission statement of the ...

Introduction

Shortage of nurses and various other quality and cost related issues have resulted in a boom of research and studies, related to staffing alternatives. In order to develop a workforce that can actually help to overcome the obstacles faced by the nursing industry and to ensure quality management in nursing practices, there are initiatives like supplemental staffing which are being accepted widely. It is important to understand that addressing the nursing related issues will not only help to improve the quality of health care but will also help to increase the productivity and reduce the effect of shortage of nurses, ...

Paychex company is a leading provider of tax related services and human resource services in united state. It serves more than 500000 businesses in the united state. Its ability to efficiently integrate payroll statistics with deliberate benefits like retirement plans and elastic spending accounts offered through gives their businesses openness to larger reimbursements packages, and allows them to confidently farm out those needs to Paychex.

The company is well known for its retirement schemes business has with professional financial advisors. It has also set up 401(k) plans which is very important and helpful to the clients.

These services include: ...

Ever since the beginning of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), there has been a subtle (or not so subtle) power struggle between the profiteers and ethical regulators. According to an article published in The Economist (2009), the conflict between the ethical and commercial considerations of a company has always existed. However, before we further our understanding of the importance of CSR for the stakeholders and its impact on company's profitability, it is very important to understand what exactly CSR is.

Unlike the common misconception that CSR is all about shelving out doles for philanthropic purposes, CSR is not ...

- One of the distinctions made in business is between high value and low-value customers. However, a customer can move from one definition to another through a number of ways. One of them is increasing the sales for every existing customer. This is through up-selling or cross-selling, with caution not upset customer relationships. Another way is retaining existing customers for longer. While there are many approaches to achieving this, the primary goal is to keep the customer for longer as it is economically cheaper compared to recruiting a new customer. Alternatively, a customer can move from one definition to another by lowering the ...

Introduction

The discussion on Human Resource Management and changing business environment received a lot of attention over the past decades in view of growing understanding of the role that individuals can play in overall performance of a given organization. Terms like organizational culture and performance emerged as part of integrated Human Resource management (HRM) and continue challenging academic and professional circles in view of complex response to existing performance management systems as well as multifaceted universe of motivation and retention constructs. In spite of growing interest and effective response to strategic HRM, a lot of organization still goes through the process of actual ...

Introduction

Construction is a field that requires efficiency and hard work. It is a field that has the potential to improve a nation’s economy by a great percentage (Keith 2008 p 3). This paper is literature review that seeks to give appropriate leadership skills for construction management. Effective ways for a construction manager to achieve success are given with its relation to customer satisfaction and employee performance. Roles and ethics that should be inculcated in management of a construction company are given to a fine detail.

Proper recommendations towards achieving this are also highlighted. The impact of proper and efficient leadership together with the consequential output is ...

According to Crisp and Reid (2007), recruitment is all about strategy, how a person fits in a team and whether they make it stronger. One should not recruit people who will end up weakening the team no matter how much technical skills they possess. The recruitment strategy I want to implement involves selecting the best individuals based on behavior and degree of project orientation. The most qualified applicants will have researched on the company and will have an idea of the company’s goals. A qualified applicant must also have the required technical skills, and they should have something unique to ...