...Risk: Structural Frame: risks ignoring everything outside rational scope (tasks, procedures, policies, and organizational charts) * Human Resource Frame: sometimes romanticized view of human nature (everyone hungers for growth and collaboration) * Political Frame: fixation on politics; easily becomes cynical; reinforcing conflict and mistrust * Symbolic Frame: powerful insight into fundamental issues of meaning and belief, creating cohesive groups with shared mission; but, its concepts are elusivability to use multiple * frames Process | Structural | Human Resource | Political | Symbolic | Strategic planning | Create strategic direction | Meeting to promote participation | Arena to air conflict | Ritual to reassure audiences | Decision-making | Rational process to get right answer | Open process to build commitment | Chance to gain or use power | Ritual to build values, bonding | Reorgani-zing | Improve structure/ environment fit | Balance needs and tasks | Reallocate power, form new coalitions | Image of accountability, responsiveness | Process | Structural | Human Resource | Political | Symbolic | Strategic planning | Create strategic direction | Meeting to promote participation | Arena to air conflict | Ritual to reassure audiences | Decision-making | Rational process to get right answer | Open process to build commitment | Chance to gain or use power | Ritual to build values, bonding | Reorgani-zing | Improve structure/...
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...by Elie Wiesel is a story about the Jews during the time when the Germans were trying to rid the world of all the imperfect people. The biggest group of people they were trying to get rid of was the Jews. There were many different reactions from the survivors/victims of the Holocaust. I know if it was me that was caught up in a disaster the scope of the Holocaust that I would have many different feelings and reactions. I know a few people who have suffered a personal tragedy, me included. In some ways there are similarities to Night whereas some of it is not. Some people say that the Holocaust should be seen as different in kind from the tragedies common to human life. A good question to ask oneself is, how great of a tragedy would it take to lead you to question the goodness of God? As the story of Night develops Eliezer’s understanding of God changes. Eliezer’s relationship with his father changes as the story progresses. Some might say this change is related to his understanding of God. His reaction to his father’s death is different than how most people would react. The scene at the mirror at the end of the story suggests that something happened to Eliezer during the story. Wiesel makes the remark “man questions God” which has a suggestion on Judaism’s attitude toward God. I believe that it is ironic in light of the story. The story of Night suggests that there is a problem with being a survivor. Some people believe that Wiesel was justified in his change of attitude toward...
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...Global Warming: Are Humans the Cause? Amanda McCauley Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted September 14, 2014, for Charles Harris’s G328/EVR3410 Section 03 Human Uses of the Environment course. Global Warming In the past couple decades; global climate change has become a topic of concern by many professionals and experts. After much debate over the topic of global warming, it has been agreed that global warming does exist and is a serious danger to the Earth. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities (Oreskes, 2004). The United States and China are responsible for the most global carbon emissions, accounting for 40 percent (McKibben, 2012). Arising from the production and consumption of goods and services; a lot of greenhouse gas emissions are created through agriculture. With large pushes to “Go Green”, many companies have made strides in changing their process of production, types of products, and promotions due to the influence of the public, and the necessity to reduce their carbon footprint. Global warming has become a danger that cannot be overlooked like it has in the past several years. It is an exponentially growing problem, with very few things being done to prevent and reduce problems. ‘Planet Earth’s average temperature has risen just under 0.8 degrees Celsius with current reports which has led to some damage...
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... The Human Resource Function of Harrison Brothers Corporation Q No.1 How does McCain Veiw her role as human resource manager ? Answer: McCain views her role as a human resource manager as an overseer of processes and procedures. She feels it is her job to organize the staffing of the stores by conducting interviews and selecting the right personal for the job. McCain also feels she needs to closely monitor the employees performance to ensure the process and procedures that are in place, are properly used and every employee receives proper treatment. As a human resource manager she seems interesting in promoting the organizational performance. She said she is so much busy in defining various gaps and making planning to fill those gaps. She seems much busy in interview and selection process and also helping in training to the new staffs. She is found to be initiating for establishing the systematic disciplinary action. She is also involving in enhancing the performance by creating commission/incentives for the sales person who sales more than breakeven. By all these facts, what I found is she is doing the analysis of the previous gaps and planning and initiating the gap fulfilment strategy but has been suffering staffs and time constraints. But due to the lack of staff in HR section she have to give more time in selection process and not been able to better coordinate with other The most important task that she undertook is actually developing a human resource unit separate...
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...successful organisational change INTRODUCTION Early on in Anecdote, we did a trainingneeds assessment for part of the Australian Defence Force. Our discovery phase involved two teams; one team adopted a structured interview technique and the other used anecdote circles to collect stories. After our first day in the field we met with the structured interview guys to compare notes. “On first blush,” they said, “it seems like most things are in order. They are adhering to OH&S processes. Sure, there are some areas for improvement but generally things are OK.” As they were providing this assessment, those of us on the anecdotes team just looked at each other in astonishment and replied, “So, you didn’t hear about the soldiers who are showering in their own urine because their recycling system is broken or hear about the workshop where everyone wears protective footwear because some poor fellow lost his toes in an accident but no one wears protective eyewear because they have never had an eye accident?”. We had heard story upon story of major transgressions that weren’t picked up in the structured interview approach. This experience confirmed our assessment that a narrative approach is great for yielding new, and otherwise hidden, insights. A number of years and many clients later, we have seen that there is something even more important narrative techniques provide: a resolve among people to do something about the situation and a frame for mapping how to do so. Stories provide people with...
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...innovative resource pack for the teaching and learning of Civic Education. It combines three books: this teachers’ guide, a student workbook and a collection of stories and photographs entitled Listen to My Story. We hope that together, they will inspire a high level of creativity in classrooms across Zambia. Civic Education is a key aspect of the school curriculum and one that prepares pupils for a productive and fulfulling life. The resource pack addresses issues of great concern to children and young people as they grow up in our society. A particular focus is gender and issues of inequality in Zambia. Many of the stories, photographs and activities enable boys and girls to reflect on the influences on their lives that shape their choices. English skills, literacy, and other elements of the curriculum are also supported and the sessions in the pack are designed to show how life and learning converge to change people’s futures. I hope that the many Zambian teachers and students who use this rich resource will benefit from the stories, and that the interactive and reflective activities will stimulate interest and learning in different local settings. Every child has the right to education. Yet in Zambia, as in many other countries around the world, millions of children, especially girls, are excluded from school. We often hear the statistics, but it is rare for those excluded children to have opportunities to make their voices heard. The resource pack draws on the stories of young...
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...award winning international Airline. Emirates started in Dubai and flew out with only two aircrafts in 1985 on 25th October which involved just a leased Boeing 737 and an airbus 300 B4. Today the Airline has orders worth over US$ 68 billion for 200 more of the latest aircraft, with plans to operate in many more destinations in the months and years ahead. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 110 destinations across 6 continents, operating a modern fleet of over 150 wide-bodied aircraft. Emirates airlines accounts to about 40% of the total movements of flights and aiming for at least 70% total flights coming in and going out of Dubai International Airport.” (http://www.emirates247.com/look-back-2010-onto-2011/the-most-popular-stories-of-2010) I am an accountant for Emirates Airlines and in charge of creating a project aiming to increase the company’s market share and gain more profit without sacrificing the company’s quality of services and reputation. I just recently began my employment in the company and now facing the big challenge of creating this project and attaining the goal of making it huge in international market and increasing our sales without compromising our excellent customer service. To be able to achieve this goal, I definitely need to focus in training and development of the company’s employees, both current and newly hired ones. I am optimistic about this project and I will do my best to make it work. However, I feel that accounting department alone...
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...A successful narrative requires the creation and development of characters. In The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, the term character can be defined as any entities involved in the action that have agency (Abbott, page 230). Characters are present in some of the most popular narratives of organizations. Olympic athlete Clara Hughes has become a character within Bell and Bell’s Let’s Talk campaigns, Don Cherry has become a character within CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada, and the late Steve Jobs has and continues to be a character tied to the Apple organization. Raising the Roof has relied on creating and building characters to help establish their narrative, and build upon their relationship with their audiences. The Raising the Roof YouTube...
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...Strategic leadership provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization. To successfully deal with change, all executives need the skills and tools for both strategy formulation and implementation. Managing change and ambiguity requires strategic leaders who not only provide a sense of direction, but who can also build ownership and alignment within their organisation to implement change. [edit] Processes Building prepared minds on a large scale is critical for companies needing to reset the strategic direction and transform the organization. Getting employees pointed in the right direction with the ability to learn and adapt concurrently helps ensure the strategy will deliver what leaders are looking for. Success requires a different way of thinking about how to marshal the resources of the organization to formulate and execute strategy. This way of thinking balances a focused analytical perspective with the human dimension of strategy making (as documented by the Park Li Group). These practices, coupled with a commitment of management time to engage the entire business in a strategy dialogue, lay the foundation for building winning organizations that can define, commit, adjust and adapt strategy quickly[3]. [edit] Strategy execution The analytical dimension and the human dimension Leaders face the continuing challenge of how they can meet the expectations of those who placed them there. Addressing these expectations usually takes the form of...
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...begin to dabble in the area of artificial intelligence and changing what humans are many opinions surface. Some of these changes in traits can be seen in movies or read in books. The traits of "knowledge and intelligence" can support a character’s will to want to change their current self to be more capable of reaching higher goals and dreams. Not everyone or everything has the capacity to use their knowledge to make intelligent choices. Being human vs. robotic can lend to the ease of using these traits to enhance their lives but the outcome cannot always be predicted. According to Dictionary.com, intelligence is one’s capacity for learning, reasoning, and understanding. It is inherent in all, but some posses the characteristic of intelligence more than others. Knowledge on the other hand is one’s acquaintance with facts, truths and principles due to study or investigation. Therefore knowledge is an acquired characteristic that feeds off of the pre-disposed intelligence that one already has. Science fiction writers challenge us to examine the topic of artificial intelligence and controlling human traits. Many books and movies entertain us with this concept and leave us wondering if it's possible to infuse knowledge and intelligence in beings, artificial or human, and wonder what the outcome would be. Writers have created the two different worlds and how knowledge and intelligence were used in these stories. Harrison Burgeron is set in the future in 2081 where due to the Amendments...
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...Apple’s Make-vs.-Buy Decision Nekima M. Gilliam Dr. Linda Force HRM 500 November 7, 2012 Based on the information given but in your own workds, explain what approaches to recruiting might be best suited for Apple’s talent acquisition? Based on the information, however given in my own expressions, I will attempt to explain what approaches to recruiting might be best suited for Apple’s talent acquisition. I personally feel that advertising through a large scale employment security agency would be the most rewarding type of advertisement to get the attention of job seekers. The employment would screen applicants and only process applications for individuals who are better suited for the job. Working with Apple you are entrusted with very confidential information. I feel recent college graduates or individuals whom have worked jobs in which they have had hands-on- experience assembling electronics would better candidates for a job offer within Apple. These energetic, inspired recent graduates are the future to these companies such as Apple. They are innovative and have a drive to advance their knowledge of technology. These new recent graduates are full of ideas and dreams that could carry Apple to an all new level, in regard to technology. The textbook also provides us with another way in which Apple hunts for talent through LinkedIn, a networking site in which it allows the individual to post their job histories. (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, Wright 2011, p. 153)....
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...visible in the 20th century. The Industrial Revolution defined in our textbook, Essential environment: The science behind the stories (3rd edition), is, "The shift in the mid-1700s from rural life, animal-powered agriculture, and manufacturing by craftsmen to an urban society powered by fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil." (Withgott & Brennan, 2009). The resources mentioned in that quote are the biggest issue, in my opinion, that came from the era. Three of the most environmentally negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution are the use of nonrenewable resources, the human population growth, and the changes to people's lifestyles. Our textbook states, "Resources such as mineral ores and crude oil are in finite supply and are formed much more slowly than we use them. These are known as nonrenewable natural resources. Once we deplete them, they are no longer available" (Withgott & Brennan, 2009). Prior to the revolution, society used renewable resources which replenished themselves over days, months, and years. Eric McLamb wrote an article titled, "The Ecological Impact of the Industrial Revolution". The article was posted on September 18, 2011 on the Ecology Global Network. He states, "It was the fossil fuel coal that fueled the Industrial Revolution, forever changing the way people would live and utilize energy. While this propelled human progress to extraordinary levels, it came at extraordinary costs to our...
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...Décor Company) 8 CONCLUSION 10 REFERENCES 11 INTRODUCTION There are a lot of changes in the external environment which impact human resource management. As a result of this change industries have reshaped themselves to be in the competition (Pritchett, 1994). An overnight demand of new skilled labour has risen drastically. The managerial work has also changed especially at the top level. Most of the managers believe that an organisation can continuously do well, if there are time to time developments made by the organisation with respect to customer needs, government regulations, technology and competition (Certo, 2000). The paper starts with the introduction of human resource management. It is followed by the explanation of external environmental factors that effects human resource management with a help of some journals. At the end, arguments explained are backed up with the live example of a company based in UAE. The name of the company is ‘THE ONE’ it faced some problems with environmental changes in human resource management in the initial stage, but it implemented some strategies to overcome the problem. According to the company, human resource is the most crucial part of the organisation without their existence the company can’t function smoothly. Thus, it has always prevented its human resource from the external environmental changes. LITERATURE REVIEW Human resource management is heavily influenced by internal and external environmental factors. For example...
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...Programme Responsable Master Grande Ecole 15-16 RN MGE M1 S3 Human Resources & Organization RH41003E-1-RN Département académique : People & Organisations Responsable : J.HARRISON HARRISON Jennifer SUBRAMANIAN Dilip BABALOLA Mayowa Chargés de cours : Langue d'enseignement : Anglais Crédits ECTS : 4 Nombre d'heure de cours : 30 Charge de travail globale : 90 Positionnement dans l'architecture programme (Bloc) : Assurance of learning : Référentiel de compétence : Connaissances requises Présentation du cours et finalités générales The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the role of people in facilitating organizational objectives. It will stress the importance of understanding human behaviour in the organizational setting. This course is required of all business majors in order to provide support to graduates' management capability, career advancement and personal development. Over a 10 week period you will explore topics related to organizational concepts and theory, such as behaviours (OB) and human resource management (HRM) systems. The list of subjects that are covered in this course are not exhaustive of all the specific areas in organization theory, OB and HRM. Rather, this course is designed to provide a snapshot of people management challenges that are important and difficult in organizations today. Coverage of these topics are designed to facilitate both knowledge and skill acquisition. Objectifs...
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...pay. Energy and economic problems come at a time of unprecedented environmental concerns, from the local to global level. At the beginning of the modern era—in A.D. 1—the number of people in the world was probably about 100 million, one-third of the present population of the United States. In 1960 the world contained 3 billion people. Our population has more than doubled in the last 40 years, to 6.8 billion people today. In the United States, population increase is often apparent when we travel. Urban traffic snarls, long lines to enter national parks, and difficulty getting tickets to popular attractions are all symptoms of a growing population. If recent human population growth rates continue, our numbers could reach 9.4 billion by 2050. The problem is that the Earth has not grown any larger, and the abundance of its resources has not increased—in many cases, quite the opposite. How, then, can Earth sustain all these people? And what is the maximum number of people that could live on Earth, not just for a short time but sustained over a long period? Estimates of how many people the planet can support range from 2.5 billion to 40 billion (a population not possible with today's technology). Why do the estimates vary so widely? Because the answer depends on what quality of life people are willing to accept. Beyond a threshold world population of about 4–6 billion, the quality of life...
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