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Human Resource Management
There are many different issues you could choose to discuss for such an assignment. One issue that is increasing important as the world shifts to a gig/platform economy is the use of independent...
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Human Resource Management
Your first task here is selecting a position about which to write. Strategically, you should choose an exempt rather than hourly position, perhaps with technical or managerial responsibilities, as...
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Human Resource Management
I think the easiest way to tackle this task is to imagine a real-life scenario in which it would occur. I strongly suggest you define your organization (what is it, how large, what does it do?),...
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Human Resource Management
Without knowing what information you have gathered, it is not possible to specifically direct your composition of a research paper. However, here are some general directions that should assist you...
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Business
One of the most important functions of human resource management (HRM) is the function of recruitment. This function can be seen in this case study. Recruitment is the process in which the firm...
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Human Resource Management
This relatively new name (used to be “personnel”) implies, paradoxically, a non-human element to the way people are treated in the Free Enterprise System. Since human beings are not simply...
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Health
The best way for care delivery teams to reduce costs is by improving processes, productivity and efficiency. More efficient processes lead to greater productivity and greater cost reduction, as...
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Business
The advantage of succession planning for all levels of an organization is that such planning ensures continuity, the presence of qualified replacements, and smooth succession (or at least makes it...
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Business
In order to answer this question, let us first understand what KSAOs are. KSAO is an acronym that stands for Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other attributes. In other words, KSAOs are the...
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Business
No, it would not be desirable to hire people in this way. While the match between the person and the organization is clearly important, the match between the person and the job is very important...
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Business
The primary function of Human Resources and a Human Resources department are: Employee administration Recruitment and talent management Managing benefits and payroll Other administrative and...
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Business
Delegation in business is the act of sharing or transferring authority and responsibility for a given task to a subordinate. It is done for reasons ranging from employee empowerment to management...
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Business
Internal recruitment is the process of filling job vacancies and open positions with employees from within the company. The applicant pool is limited only to those already employed within the...
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Human Resource Management
Two strategies are deductive and inductive training. Deductive training teaches the skills that are needed without direct reference to past learning, education or experience. Inductive training...
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Human Resource Management
Human resources development is connected to adult learning because much of human resources development consists of helping adults to learn. Human resources development generally consists of two...
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Human Resource Management
Part of the answer to this issue is that the HR Manager has to engage in some frank and open discourse with members of the staff that are there in Durban and those who have left. There has to be...
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Business
Benchmarking in the workplace allows management to evaluate both employee performance as well as overall company performance against a set industry or objective standard. For instance, ACME Company...
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Human Resource Management
Jack Welch, longtime Chairman and Chief Executive of General Electric, knows quite a bit about how run an exceptionally large, and successful, corporation. One of Welch’s strengths as a...
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Business
I would not agree that every manager is a human resources (HR) manager and nothing else, but I would argue that HR management is a part of every manager’s job. HR management can be defined as...
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Business
As the essay on employee evaluations and performance appraisals, the link to which is below, points out, the construction of performance appraisals can be surprisingly complicated, and there is no...
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Business
The word "right" has to be analyzed. I think that "right" can mean that individuals who are able to share or embrace an organization's mission and purpose are essential for any organization's...
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Human Resource Management
Companies can validate the statement that "Our human resources are our most valuable assets" through the use of policies designed to reflect that motto. Any discrepancy between image and reality...
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Business
In order for us to understand how this can be accomplished, let us look at the definitions of human resources management and of competitive advantage. A competitive advantage is anything that a...
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Human Resource Management
Whatever an organization does, human beings are essential to its success. "Humans are an organization's greatest asset." Any organization and endeavor that operates in the realm of commerce...
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Business
In the corporate sector, performance appraisals fulfill several important roles--assuming that the appraisals are balanced and are not used for punitive reasons. The process must be administered...
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Human Resource Management
This is a hard situation. Here are the steps to take. First, you did the right thing in speaking to the person. Sometimes this is all that it takes. Sometimes people do not know what they are...
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Human Resource Management
1. Prior knowlege- What a student knows can either help or inhibit learning. If a students' prior learning is stellar and accurate, this can create a strong foundation to build on. But prior...
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Human Resource Management
Corporations provide training and development programs for several reasons. The primary purpose of a training program is to acclimate a new hire so that the person understands the company culture...
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Business
This is a very interesting question and a timely one as the US still struggles to fully recover from the financial institution collapse. One change that came about in the credit card manufacture...
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Human Resource Management
Strategic Human Resource Management adds value to a company because human resources are one of a company’s most valuable assets. Recruiting, training, evaluating, and retaining employees is...
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Human Resource Management
In order to understand why this is so, let us look at what “human resource management” is. The link below tells us that human resource management is all the activities undertaken by an...
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Human Resource Management
A person with an administrative role is responsible for ensuring that things get done within the company. Administrators give orders, and are accountable for other employees following them. An...
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Human Resource Management
Regardless of their lack of remuneration, unpaid work is highly beneficial for anyone who wants to establish a valid and strong reputation in a field of work where there is competition to get in....
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Human Resource Management
The pay that employees receive on holidays or when they are on vacation should definitely be classified with wages and benefits. It is typically seen as a benefit. Wages are typically defined as...
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Human Resource Management
In answering this question, we must first realize that the specifics of the case are very important. It is hard to give a blanket answer that covers all situations in which an employee is...
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Business
Human Resource Management experts recommend setting up a trial period after implementing a new flextime policy. This allows for management and employees to provide informed feedback and allows for...
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Human Resource Management
A grievance is an official, written note that concerns a break in written agreements between management and the union. These include: a violation of contract a violation of practice or a past...
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Human Resource Management
The answer is yes in almost every case. Being that there are so many different labor sectors ranging from mining, to manufacturing, to education, among hundreds of others, there may be a few...
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Business
Workplace conflict can mean a number or things and come in many forms, it could involve: 1.) Issues of workplace harassment or discrimination 2.) Conflict of ideas 3.) Personal/Professional...
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Human Resource Management
In general, employers do not have to allow union solicitation materials to be posted on company bulletin boards. However, companies also do not have a blanket right to ban all such materials....
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Human Resource Management
Because your other questions are clearly related to bulletin boards and unionization, I will focus on that issue here as well. In general, companies do have the right to restrict what is posted on...
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Human Resource Management
Employers are required to post certain information. They do not have to allow workers to post their own bulletin boards. First of all, the federal government of the United States requires...
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Human Resource Management
Speaking of the United States legal requirements for workplace bulletin boards: Federal, state and local governments do issue legal guidance, rules, regulations and updates to existing guidance,...
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Human Resource Management
If an employee is emotional to an excessive degree, the best thing to do (assuming the employee is worth keeping) is to give that employee feedback in ways that are designed to be factual and not,...
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Human Resource Management
For the most part, I do not think that it has. The burden of providing security is still much more in the hands of the government than in the hands of HR departments in the private sector. Of...
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Human Resource Management
Since you have put this in the business section, I assume that you are asking about the business reasons (as opposed to reasons having to do with society as a whole) that downsizing can be a bad...
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Human Resource Management
In large corporations, clerical employees are often removed by several layers of management from the evaluation-writer. Also, because of the natural promotion patterns in place, an immediate...
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Human Resource Management
The main advantage of the applicant tracking system is that the business knows what type of person applies for the job and how many accept employment if it is offered. An applicant tracking system...
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Human Resource Management
The major benefit of including KSAs that are about safety in a job description is that they get the applicants to understand how important safety is to the firm. If a job description includes KSAs...
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Human Resource Management
The most important problem that might be encountered comes from the fact that the job incumbent will have his or her own biases. The job incumbent may not have a good overall view of all the...
