BUS 1101 Written Assignment Unit 2

One of the most significant management trends during the 1990s not only in the USA but the whole world was organizational downsizing. Since downsizing typically involved shrinking theorganization's workforce, it was a human resource management issue. Can some of you remember VSS? Some employees loved it, some deplored it like it was an epidemic sweepingthe country!Many organizations had done a fairly good job of helping layoff victims by offering a variety of job-help services, psychological counseling, support groups, severance salary, extended healthinsurance benefits and even finding jobs with other companies. This assistance offered revealed that the organization did care about its former employees.What are the key concepts in human resource management and how have they impacted organizational practice and performance? Discuss in detail.

Rich picture Assignement: What does an average day at working at the bank look and describe the groups involved with an average day at work? Identify the following groups and their behaviors: customers, different departments/types of workers, management/owners, and external agents. Make a list of approximately three to six groups involved with the average day at work.  make notes on their duties, behaviors, and responsibilities.

Provide a detailed review of the compensation and/or benefit challenge (problem) at Home depo. It is recommended that you concentrate on one compensation and/or benefit challenge(s) within the organization. Be careful to avoid selecting a topic that is too broad. At the same time, the challenge facing the organization should be broad enough to provide multiple strategies to help resolve the problem.

Why it is important to define the status of employees correctly? How the  IRS 20-factor analysis test is used to define the status of an employee?

analyze the six (6) rules for evaluating needs and solutions based on fact and evidence and how they can be applied to the workplace.

Read and analyze the following situation:You work for a business that sells cleaning products for hospitals on an industrial level. The mission of the business is to position itself as a leader in the industry of cleaning products for hospitals at an industrial level throughout Puerto Rico. Recently, the company developed an evaluation of the Human Resources area and they realized that the policies for recruiting and selecting employees were not clear and that there was no evidence of their effectiveness. In addition, the number of employee turnover had increased significantly, and supervisors complain that when a vacancy arises, it takes months for Human Resources to identify a replacement for the available position. In the past, the process only consisted of filling out an application, conducting an evaluation of the candidate's resume, conducting an interview with a supervisor, and giving the selected candidate a brief orientation by the director of Human Resources at the…

Read and analyze the following situation: You work for a business that sells cleaning products for hospitals on an industrial level. The mission of the business is to position itself as a leader in the industry of cleaning products for hospitals at an industrial level throughout Puerto Rico. Recently, the company developed an evaluation of the Human Resources area and they realized that the policies for recruiting and selecting employees were not clear and that there was no evidence of their effectiveness. In addition, the number of employee turnover had increased significantly, and supervisors complain that when a vacancy arises, it takes months for Human Resources to identify a replacement for the available position. In the past, the process only consisted of filling out an application, conducting an evaluation of the candidate's resume, conducting an interview with a supervisor, and giving the selected candidate a brief orientation by the director of Human Resources at the…

Read and analyze the following situation: You work for a business that sells cleaning products for hospitals on an industrial level. The mission of the business is to position itself as a leader in the industry of cleaning products for hospitals at an industrial level throughout Puerto Rico. Recently, the company developed an evaluation of the Human Resources area and they realized that the policies for recruiting and selecting employees were not clear and that there was no evidence of their effectiveness. In addition, the number of employee turnover had increased significantly, and supervisors complain that when a vacancy arises, it takes months for Human Resources to identify a replacement for the available position. In the past, the process only consisted of filling out an application, conducting an evaluation of the candidate's resume, conducting an interview with a supervisor, and giving the selected candidate a brief orientation by the director of Human Resources at the…

Read and analyze the following situation:You work for a business that sells cleaning products for hospitals on an industrial level. The mission of the business is to position itself as a leader in the industry of cleaning products for hospitals at an industrial level throughout Puerto Rico. Recently, the company developed an evaluation of the Human Resources area and they realized that the policies for recruiting and selecting employees were not clear and that there was no evidence of their effectiveness. In addition, the number of employee turnover had increased significantly, and supervisors complain that when a vacancy arises, it takes months for Human Resources to identify a replacement for the available position. In the past, the process only consisted of filling out an application, conducting an evaluation of the candidate's résumé, conducting an interview with a supervisor, and giving the selected candidate a brief orientation by the director of Human Resources at the…

Read and analyze the following situation:You work for a business that sells cleaning products for hospitals on an industrial level. The mission of the business is to position itself as a leader in the industry of cleaning products for hospitals at an industrial level throughout Puerto Rico. Recently, the company developed an evaluation of the Human Resources area and they realized that the policies for recruiting and selecting employees were not clear and that there was no evidence of their effectiveness. In addition, the number of employee turnover had increased significantly, and supervisors complain that when a vacancy arises, it takes months for Human Resources to identify a replacement for the available position. In the past, the process only consisted of filling out an application, conducting an evaluation of the candidate's resume, conducting an interview with a supervisor, and giving the selected candidate a brief orientation by the director of Human Resources at the…

D3) Discuss why remuneration is recognized as an important governance issue and the role of shareholders in monitoring it.

Employers are shifting more responsibility to employees in the area of employee benefits. Describe (2) specific examples of this trend. What are the likely consequences of this change?

You have just been appointed as a Human resources director for your company and are required to fulfil the four core management functions at this management level. Taking the above information into consideration answer the questions that follow: 1. Describe the level of management that a human resource director belongs to. 2. Explain why the Human resource function is considered as a secondary activity of the business.  3.With the aid of examples discuss the planning activities you would be involved/ responsible for. 4.Discuss the qualities/ characteristics that you would exhibit, to be considered as an effective leader. 5. Explain one type of power that you as a leader would exhibit.

From your own point of view, how can management empower their employees? Discuss your answer briefly. No copy paste pls. Thanks!

Generally, Crises affect businesses negatively and therefore, many businesses revise their policies to cope with the challenging situation. Currently, COVID-19 adversely affects almost every business in the world. To keep employees, retain and engage is one of the main challenges for organizations and many organizations are trying to tackle this challenge through various alternatives. Consider yourself as an HR manager of a Pharmaceutical company in Karachi and answer the following question  Q1 : Critically evaluate which approach is best suited to evaluate the compensation of employees in the current situation? Support your answer with an example.                      (250 words) Job Evaluation approach Market-based approach

Please see the rubrics for grading criteria.    Please read Case 11(C-147) part 4, case studies “Pacific Drilling: The Preferred Offshore Driller” and write a 4 to 6 page APA formatted paper..  Please provide at least three (3) peer-reviewed resources in support of your arguments.    Write a summary of the case as introduction of your paper Why offshore drilling? Offshore drilling typically used three types, what are the three types of offshore drilling? What was the reason for the fall of the company's stock in 2014? Was the fall of the company's stock related to the movement of Global Oil prices? Was collaboration with Chevron a wise move for the company? What were the challenges: Competition in the market including the supply of shale oil,  Technological challenges, and  Dealing with fluctuations in the international oil prices

analyze and provide an example of four (4) basic terms that are associated with measurement and evaluation. how can measurement and performance chain can be applied to help improve organizational success. how can business performance can be impacted in both a positive and negative way and provide an example of how the negative can be transformed into a positive leading to organizational success. Distinguish the role ethics play and provide a real-world example of an organization that was impacted by the ethics of their employees in either a positive or negative manner.

Business ethic Should employee job scheduling be subject to government regulation or be left to employers and employees to work it out? Discuss substantively the pros and cons of each option. Provide practical personal examples or any other examples you may have heard or read about.

What are two Strategic workforce planning approaches used to Recruit and select staffs, Communicate changes and other informations, and to preserve the Brand of a company?

Explain the reasons for conducting job analysis using your own understanding.

( Watch the youtube video and answer the question that follows) https://youtu.be/RbGBpMDZYf4  (Question):How  can organizations manage to maintain  poor employee performance effectively?

MANAGEMENT CASES - DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES Your Task For each scenario, discuss the following: What is the issue (there may be more than 1)? Who are the parties affected? List and explain 2 alternatives for handling each situation o Discuss 2 pros and 2 cons for each alternative What is your conclusion? o Discuss the best way to handle each situation use reasoning to justify your decision Situations 1) You are the owner of a small craft store. When doing the scheduling, you put Judi on the Friday shift. On Tuesday, Judi comes to you and says that she cannot work. You remind Judi that she needs to tell you the days she is unavailable at least one week in advance. You insist that she work on Friday. At 7:00 a.m. on Friday, Judi calls in sick. You must take Judi's shift-giving up your only day off. When making deliveries for the store, yo see Judi eating lunch on Friday in a local restaurant.

As a CEO of a health services organization you will discuss the implementation of a “work from home policy” for your organization. You must give three examples of when and how it could work and three examples of when and how it could not work.

If you were the Vice President of Learning for McCormick, how would you approach training and development? Your paper should include the following: Evaluate the types of training and development initiatives would you create Design metrics you would use to collect information that allows you to determine and measure the effectiveness of your initiatives Defend for or against having employees, who are not training or learning experts, teach others as a means to making training and learning more strategic

Mr. Faizan is a fresh graduate and he is employed at ABC Company. He is a fresh graduate and it’s his first professional job. The job pays him pretty well but he is still unhappy with job. Develop an account of the current thinking about the relationship between job performance and job satisfaction. Examine what could be the possible reasons behind Mr. Faizan being unhappy with his job? If Faizan’s supervisor believes that ‘happy employees are productive employees’, what kind of problems might he encounter? Be sure to emphasize the role of rewards in your answer.

Write your position regarding the importance of human capital management to achieve organizational goals and a competitive advantage. Recruitment and selectionOne of the most important jobs as a cafe manager is to recruit and select the best employees. a). Once you've attracted several potential candidates, how would you decide which one to select for your coffee shop? Identify at least three qualities or qualifications that this potential employee must have and that you consider very important for candidates for the server position.b Write five questions that you could use for the job interview of potential candidates for the position of waiter.

Criticise the SECI model with reference to other models of knowledgemanagement.

Three benefits that I could give to my employees when they are at work and three benefits for when they are away from work.  Thank you.