...demonstrates my understanding and ability to complete the tools for a successful job search using a persuasive resume. Job Ad | | | | | Company: Quantum Location: Toronto, ON Job Category: Human Resources | | Email: Apply by Email | | | The Quantum Group of Companies was founded in 1968 in Montreal. It has earned its reputation as the full-service human resources partner of choice by providing unique and effective recruitment solutions that meet clients' complex staffing needs. Since its inception nearly 40 years ago, Quantum has been building relationships with private and public sector clients through a network of branch offices across North America, with primary hubs centred in major labour markets. Branch office locations are situated in key areas, each with a distinct market focus.Quantum is a true success story, with a portfolio that includes a full range of permanent and temporary recruiting services in all disciplines and at all levels. These services are available to our clients and candidates in every business sector through the member companies of the Quantum Group:• Quantum Management Services Ltd. • Quantum Technology Recruiting Inc. • Alternacare Inc. † †Quantum is an equal opportunity employer.For more job opportunities visit www.quantum.ca | | | Human Resource Administrator | | | Job Ad - ContinuedQuantum is proud to partner with McKesson Canada to meet its hiring...
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...PEST Analysis in strategic Human Resources Planning Hamid Reza Qasemi Islamic Azad University of Iran, Aligoodarz Branch Hamid-reza@myway.com Abstract: The present complex world require as far as is feasible, it consider impact of important factors related to organizations in strategic planning. The strategic planning of business includes all functional subdivisions and forwards them in a united direction. One of these subsystems is human resource management. Strategic human resource management comes after the strategic planning, and followed by strategic human resource planning as a major activity in SHRM. In strategic human resource planning, it can use different analytical methods and techniques that one of them is PEST analysis. This paper introduces how to apply it in a new manner. This manner is result of practical case of application of SHRP in an organization. Key words: PEST Analysis/ Strategic Human Resource Planning/ Strategic Human resource Management. 1. Introduction: Planning is about change and change management is a difficult. Rise and fall of strategic planning indicates organizations find tools to help to navigate organization's ship into the uncertain water of change. Success of a program is difficult to assess, as changing objectives and goals and the results are not simply measurable (Martinez: 1999). The organizations always are attempting to coordinate their resources, feasibilities, tools and capital in certain framework for...
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...QUESTION 1 As a human resource manager, how might you go about convincing top management that you should be heavily involved in the company's strategic planning process? Stress the potential for bottom-line improvement brought about with the help of HRM in the various areas. The role of a human resource manager is to help the top management to recruit, select, train and develop members for a company. Obviously, human resource planning is concerned with the people’s dimensions in organizations. HRP refers to set of programs, functions, and activities designed and carried out. Therefore, HRP should be heavily involved in the company’s strategic planning process. HRP is the process of forecasting an organization’s future demand for and supply of the right type of people in the right numbers. Only after the planning is done, the company can initiate and plan the recruitment and selection process. The importance of human resource planning a. Analyzing organizational plans and deciding objectives: Analysis of organizational plans and programs helps in forecasting the demand for human resources as it provides the quantum of future work activity. The business plan would be a blueprint of desired objectives. This objective stated in economic terms, would incorporate the growth rate of the company, diversification plans, market opportunities and government policies. b. Analyzing factors for manpower requirements: The HRM should keep in view the future capabilities, knowledge...
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...corporate foresight activity explains in details, both technical and the human aspect, the value creation from the future research. As the future research involves a monitory as well the human capital the return on investment is an important debate. While discussing the return on investment the time line is also a concern that when the return of the present investment would be physically enjoyable. The paper starts with a brilliant introduction of the thesis statement and the author has argued the most common question “Have the predictions been accurate? ‘With the question ‘‘did our futures research create any value?’’ .Further in the paper the author have supported his argument with a literature review and empirical investigation. Based on the literature review the author have found out three main group of potential value creations (Rohrbeck 2011) • Trigger organizational responses, including identifying relevant external change, start new innovation initiatives and challenge innovation development to ensure state-of-the-art • Start and facilitate strategic discussions to enable strategic change, including challenge and change existing mental models, moderate strategic discussions, promote participation and support breaking away from path dependency • Identify and support acquisition of needed strategic resources, including identify resources, decide on development of acquisition From the strategic management perspective the article finds a process logic of dynamic capabilities...
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...QUESTION 3 As a human resource manager, how might you go about convincing top management that you should be heavily involved in the company's strategic planning process? Stress the potential for bottom-line improvement brought about with the help of HRM in the various areas. Answer 3) The role of a human resource manager is to help the top management to recruit, select, train and develop members for a company. Obviously, human resource planning is concerned with the people’s dimensions in organizations. HRP refers to set of programs, functions, and activities designed and carried out. Therefore, HRP should be heavily involved in the company’s strategic planning process. HRP is the process of forecasting an organization’s future demand for and supply of the right type of people in the right numbers. Only after the planning is done, the company can initiate and plan the recruitment and selection process. The importance of human resource planning a. Analyzing organizational plans and deciding objectives: Analysis of organizational plans and programs helps in forecasting the demand for human resources as it provides the quantum of future work activity. The business plan would be a blueprint of desired objectives. This objective stated in economic terms, would incorporate the growth rate of the company, diversification plans, market opportunities and government policies. b. Analyzing factors for manpower requirements: The HRM should keep in view the future capabilities...
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...Organizational Dynamics (2013) 42, 92—99 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/orgdyn Quantum Strategy at Apple Inc Loizos Heracleous Over the last 15 years, Apple Inc has revolutionized the personal electronics, telecom, computer and media industries through a string of blockbuster products that offer unique, designer, integrated customer experiences. In the process, the company has helped to accelerate the blurring of industry boundaries through the spread of devices that offer convergent technologies, and to position itself so that it exerts significant power over both consumers and industry players, with outstanding performance results. Apple became the most valuable listed company, with a market value of US$623 billion in August 2012, and has gathered the highest accumulation of cash reserves ($121 billion in September 2012) of any listed company. It regularly achieves net margins of above 20 percent in industries where most competitors achieve single-digit margins. Its net margin was 26.7 percent during 2012, having increased from 23.9 percent in 2011 and 21.5 percent in 2010. During the same period, Apple’s revenues increased from US$65.2 billion in 2010 to US $108.2 billion in 2011 and to US$156.5 billion in 2012. The chief architect of the business model and value system that led to this exceptional performance is widely acknowledged to be the late Steve Jobs. With Jobs’ passing in October 2011, many have wondered...
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...Abstract Today the world has more and more of free flow of information leading to transfer of knowledge from a person or an organization to others. Whereas this invariably leads to faster development, it also impacts the competitive advantage held by the innovators of processes or technology. It has therefore become strategically important for one and all in business to understand the knowledge, processes and controls to effectively manage the system of sharing and transferring the information in the most beneficial fashion. This paper dwells upon definition, types, scope, technology and modeling of knowledge and Knowledge Management while examining its strategic importance for retaining the competitive advantage by the organizations. What is knowledge? Plato first defined the concept of knowledge as justified true belief'' in his Meno, Phaedo and Theaetetus. Although not very accurate in terms of logic, this definition has been predominant in Western philosophy (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995). Davenport et al. (1998) define knowledge as ``information combined with experience, context, interpretation and reflection''. The terms knowledge'' and information'' are often used inter-changeably in the literature and praxis but a distinction is helpful. The chain of knowledge flow is data-information-knowledge. Information is data to which meaning has been added by being categorized, classified, corrected, and condensed. Information and experience, key components...
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...Virtual Management - a New Business Organization Paradigm JJ Murphy Negotiation Newsletter Calum Coburn Co Ltd ( private paper). This article discusses how traditional organizational management methods and structures are failing to adequately accommodate a complexity-based world view, which is characterized by discontinuous change, hyper competition and the exponential explosion of information science. Virtual organizational management is the needed change in the management paradigm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article argues that traditional management methods and structures are failing to adequately accommodate a complexity-based world view, which is characterized by discontinuous change, hyper competition and the exponential explosion of information science and shows how the management paradigm has been updated by the new era of the virtual structures. While the management structures and systems developed by such researchers as Weber, Fayol, Taylor and Drucker in the 19th and 20th centuries established a management paradigm which has endured up to the millennium, these "simple" structures and systems were more suited to a time when competition was slower, less aggressive, and characterized by long periods of stability, and when information science was in its embryonic or primordial stage. It is abundantly clear, however, that the arrival of the 21st Century demands a fundamental rethink, and the development of...
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...advances in microprocessing capabilities which seem to be paralleling closely with forecasts given by Moore’s Law (Greenemeir, 2009). Moore’s Law, which is not exactly a law, is an estimation regarding the progression deemed possible in an integrated circuit. It was postulated by one of the founders of Intel, Dr. Gordon Moore, who stated that the number of transistors placed on a circuit will double roughly every 18 months (Colwell, 2013), and the capacity to follow this trend will end at a critical point when transistors become so close together that the manifestations of quantum mechanics will begin to transpire (Tally, 2012). Classical computers have undoubtedly reshaped our world and have provided incalculable progress unforeseen through the eyes of some of history’s greatest academics. Early computers were mammoth-sized mechanical devices utilized by the military for processing information that would take humans hours by manual calculation alone (Watson, 2012). Computers, in the days prior to digital computers, were actual people who would literally compute information for whatever their task or job may have been. Though these positions were often filled with clever mathematicians, their capacity to compute problems with increasing...
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...restrictions on competition between banks, building societies, merchant banks, and other institutions which offer financial services, and grant of new banking licenses including licenses to 16 foreign-owned banks to operate in Australia. From its inception as ‘Hill Samuel Australia’ in the early 1970s, the bank’s strategic focus was merchant banking (investment banking). In 1980, the bank commenced a process of diversification. But, with deregulation in the 1980s it diversified further, building up strength in specialist markets, particularly in high value-added niches (market segments) like corporate services, bullion and commodities. The pace of diversification quickened by the mid 1980s with the bank entering into a range of new areas including retail domestic banking, equity investments, property and leasing. Growth took place by way of both development and acquisition. Macquarie remains one of Australia’s most successful and profitable banks. So, how did Macquarie executives manage the needed organizational change? Change in Macquarie has been a process of constant adjustment. One executive described it this way: ‘We never stay still, but we don’t change in quantum leaps—our corporate culture would preclude that. Running a business on partnership concepts means that policy decisions are...
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...Mumbai: With the rise in attrition levels taking a toll on IT companies, the country’s largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is all set to bring about a change in its human resource management. The firm has put forth a ‘resources management group’ (RMG) that will work towards various retention initiatives. TCS on Thursday reported a 13% attrition rate in spite of an average 10-13% wage hike that it gave this quarter. Though a second round of wage hike is not a possibility, vice-president & head for global human resources, Ajoy Mukherjee, feels the strengthening of people management and training will improve retention levels. For instance, the firm will bring about a rotation of employees for on-site locations. “With the decrease in on-site opportunities, we intend to rotate employees so that more people get a chance to be at the clients’ locations,” Mukherjee said. “There has to be a stress on aspirations and we have to ensure that business and HR work together to do that.” The industry, at the moment, is witnessing the experienced band of about 3 – 6 years contributing to the majority of the attrition rate. The RMG will also identify individuals that are keen on having newer challenging jobs. “The experienced employees have different aspirations and wage is not necessarily a reason for an employee to quit. For the IT industry, it is increasingly becoming an aspect of having a challenging job. And so, we would want to retain such employees by moving them...
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...Understanding the variables that determine the integration plan- Haspeslagh and Jemison(1991) observed that the two most important factors for determining the integration approach on the strategic level are • Need for strategic interdependence • Need for organizational autonomy Studying the different approaches of the integration plan- They suggested four approaches for integration: absorption, preservation, symbiosis, and holding (Figure). The acquisition should use one of these four approaches. Figure 4: Key actions in the Integration Plan- It is imperative to have a focused integration plan in order manage the negative reactions and meet strategic objectives. Although the plan depends on the approach and the context of an M&A, the 4C model (D Prasanth Nair,2007) as a part of the Integration Plan facilitates conducive environment of value accrual (Exhibit 1). Change...
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...a flurry of book, articles, and seminars; others have been completely discredited. Businesses have realized that there is a need to restructure their business practices and become more customer-focused. All recent business approaches and techniques have generally aimed at improving performance, increasing profits, gaining market share, and most importantly satisfying the customer who has become more educated and more demanding than ever. In the last two decades two organizational development models have dominated the business world for a considerable period of time namely Total Quality Management (TQM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Statement of Objective This paper aims to shed a novel light on the two most recent and prominent management approaches, namely TQM and BPR. In an attempt to examine the interaction between radical BPR and incremental TQM with respect to change management, I shall briefly discuss the two constructs and contemplate the roots and basic tenets that underlie each. BPR has been referred to in the literature as “the successor” of TQM and has been treated as an equal. I shall treat the similarities and common grounds among the two, as well as the differences between them. Next, I shall touch upon the weaknesses and highlights that distinguish each, and then move on to construct an integrated model in an attempt to reconciliate the two “opposing camps”. In this model, BPR cannot withstand, but be an integrated part of the more comprehensive TQM...
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...Corporate planning of commercial bank: Planning is a pre requisite of every management function . the performance of all other functions like planning, organizing , staffing, directing & controlling is preceded by performance of planning function. So corporate planning is the primary function of any corporate management . it is combination of the activities in the management process which consist of formulation of the objectives & the action to be taken for their achievement. Corporate planning is a bridge between the present & future of the bank . it also provides the framework for decision making . According to koontz & weihrich : Corporate planning involves selecting mission & objectives & the action to achieve them ; it requires decision making ,that is choosing from the alternative future course of the action . Nature of the corporate planning : The essential nature of corporate planning can be high lighted by examining the four major aspects : 1) Its contribution to the purpose & objectives. 2) Its primacy among the manager tasks . 3) Its prevasiveness . 4) The efficiency of resulting plans . Every corporate plan must contribute to the achievements of bank objectives. Importance of corporate planning by commercial bank : 1) To face the challenge of market environment : The commercial bank have to function in changing market environment . there is change in technology , income levels, policies of domestic...
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...Fundamentals of Human Resource Management Student’s Name Institution Fundamentals of Human Resource Management True and False: Please mark either T or F in the appropriate space before the question (7 * .25 each = 1.75 points) 1. __T__ Today’s managers have found that employees do not set aside their cultural values and lifestyle preferences when they come to work. The challenge is to make organizations more accommodating to diverse groups of people by addressing different lifestyles, family needs, and work styles. 2. __T__ Work Process Engineering is referred to at times as work process reengineering because it goes beyond incremental change and requires an organization to face the possibility that what the organization may need is radical or quantum change. 3. __F__ Drug testing in today’s organization is conducted not to eliminate illegal substance at the point of hire, but only to catch those using it in the workplace. 4. __F__ Type A behavior is characterized by a procrastinated sense of time urgency, excessively competitive drive, and difficulty accepting and enjoying leisure time. 5. __F__ the purpose of job analysis is ONLY concerned with the amount of money that is paid to the employee for following their job description. 6.__T_ some stress in organizations is absolutely necessary; without it, workers lack energy. 7._T__ Employee assistance programs (EAPS) are specific programs designed to help employees with personal problems. ...
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