...critical analysis on the interaction of HR and line managers, including the concept of HR business partnering, the integration of businesses and HR strategies, and integration of theories with practice using examples from organisations. Name:Ikenze tony Kalu STUDENT NO: 12234835 Word count: HR AND LINE MANAGERS HR managers are managers responsible for delivery of basic HRM services such as recruiting, hiring, training, organizational development, coaching, employee relation, communication, leadership, advice, salary and benefits, team building of staffs within an organization and also the well-being of people and relationship between management and employees (Susan, H, 2012). while the line manager are managers crucially responsible for administrative management of individuals, direct management of staffs within an organization and the supervision and discipline of their employees and performance appraisal (John ,F ,2012) in addition the line managers have the power to influence the employees behaviour (cascio,2008;cited in faisal et al ,2011). Interaction between the HR mangers and line managers However the interaction between the HR manager and the line manager is very essential within an organization, a previous research carried out by Stockton Borough Council (2011) showed that there is an existing culture of both managers working together to address people management responsibilities, this research also showed that line managers were ready to take up more responsibities...
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... University of Phoenix Footlocker Table of contents Table of Contents Company Overview……………3 Key Facts……………………….3 SWOT Analysis………………...4 Footlocker Company Overview Company Overview Originally Purchased in 1963 the F.W Woolworth Company purchased the Kinney Shoe Corporation they started out as just shoes and then later branched out into specialty shoe stores. Footlocker came out in 1974 (Footlocker inc) just Footlocker is one of the leading retailers of athletically inspired shoes and apparel (footlocker inc) They operate stores in 23 countries and have over 3,473 retail stores (footlocker inc). They operate their business in two different ways athletic stores and direct to customers, what this means is they sell through catalog and the Internet. (forbes.com) Under the footlocker name there are several other brands These stores include Ladies Footlocker, Kids Footlocker, and Foot action, Champs, Six:02, House of Hoops, Runners Point and Side Step and East Bay (Footlocker Inc) This company is continually growing their brand and expanding out into other aspects of the industry besides footwear. Key Facts | |Footlocker Inc | |Head Office |112 West 34th Street | |...
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...strategy for a business concept that would directly compete with the small business you selected. Explain the rationale for the strategy in detail. 2. Determine if it would make more sense to open the new business you describe or to purchase the existing business you selected. Explain your reasoning. 3. Discuss the most appropriate form of ownership for your new business (assuming your current financial situation). 4. Outline a business plan for your business. Visit http://www.sba.gov for tools and templates. 5. Include at least two (2) references outside the textbook. My new business......Sea~sonals, aquatic line of decor for every season for your home aquarium. Owners of aquariums take pride in their masterpeices and many consider them as one of the main decorative elements in their home. With this line of Sea~sonal decor, your fish and tank can change with the seasons and celebrate the holidays with the rest of the family. The Christmas line would consist of little bubble blowing fireplaces complete with stockings for the fish, Christmas Tree shaped faux plant life, and peel decals of snowflakes, garland,etc. Halloween would have little fish sized tombstones and spooky trees along side the haunted house and full moon back drop. The possibilities are endless. Industry and Market Feasibility While a large industry of aquarium decor is available and there are many suppliers, I think that what makes this product line even more...
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...HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 29.2 and controlling the cost of transactional work. Little formal consideration has been given, however, to how these new complex HR organizations should be configured to best achieve these goals. This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. Each model is described and discussed and a set of considerations for the HR leader is offered in order to maximize the effectiveness of the chosen organization design. Over the last decade there has been a profound shift in the work of the HR function. The publication in 1997 of David Ulrich’s Human Resource Champions spurred HR leaders across various industries to realign their organizations in order to undertake “strategic business partner” work. At the same time, a focus on cost-cutting and efficiency aimed at staff functions in general—and at HR in particular—has pushed much HR transactional work into shared services or to outsourced vendors. For many HR departments, this process of “transformation,” as it is popularly called, has been a wrenching experience. It has required rethinking the fundamental role of the HR function and shifting the definition of the HR “customer” from the traditional...
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...The Role of Cash in a Business Crucial Lesson Taught to People in Taking First Aid Always check first if a victim is breathing, and if not, deal with that first. Statement of Cash Flow There have been instances where people have tended to bleeding wounds, only to find that the victim died from, say, a blocked air passage. Many things are essential to life, but in the short term, nothing is more important than breathing, in that an absence creates the most immediate life threatening "crisis". Cash as Breath of a Business Anyone running a business should think of cash as breath. Cash, in a broad sense, means a positive bank account or the access to a credit line. Another way of thinking: "If I write a check, will the bank cash it"? The Role of Cash in a Business The Role of Cash in a Business Cash as Breath of a Business (Cont’d) Cash as Breath of a Business (Cont’d) When a business loses access to funds, suppliers stop shipping and workers stop showing up at work. Inevitably a creditor will take steps to put the firm in receivership, at which point the owners have legally lost the ability to operate the business. A company going into receivership is normally broken up: assets are sold, often at a steep discount, to recover funds to payoff creditors. The management of a business sometimes may be so focused on longerterm issues: (1) bringing a new product to market (2) working with an existing customer (3) attracting new investors They might...
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...Promotion For a small business with a limited marketing budget it is very important that the right decisions are made about the types of promotion we are going to use. Promotion is the set of activities which communicate the product, brand or service to the consumer. The idea to make people aware, attract and induce them to buy the product, in preference over our competitors. I will use promotion to establish my brand in the online industry, the better established brand leads to a good reputation. As a result of consumers seeing us a very good business with a high reputation it leads to repeat business. Repeat business is when a customer returns again and again to purchase a good or service from a business. I am proposing to spend up to £1250 on my promotion campaign. There are 2 categories of promotion which all businesses use. The 2 categories are above the line and below the line promotion. Above the line promotion is where mass media is used to promote brands and reach out to the target consumers. It includes TV, Newspaper, and Cinema etc. This type of advertising is communication that is targeted to a wider spread of audience, and is not specific to individual consumers. After careful consideration I have decided not to use this type of promotion, the reasons being it is too expensive for a small business like ourselves in the short term. I will focus on using below the line promotion. Below the line promotion is an immediate or delayed incentive to purchase, expressed...
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...customer line, and 9500 * 0.03 = $285 ii. The business customer line. What drives theses allocations? 85500 * 0.03 = $2565 Paying checks which was processed c. What proportion of the total indirect cost is assigned to: iii. The retail customer line, and iv. The business customer line? Why? That is, what is the underlying rationale for indirect cost allocation under the old system? What assumption must hold approximately true for the original cost allocation procedure to generate “accurate” customer cost information? Retail line: $285 285 /(285+2565) =10％ Business line: $2565 2565 /(285+2565) =90％ Since the old indirect cost was allocated by paying checks, which was processed, and 90% of the checks wrote through business line, 90% indirect cost was allocated in Business line and 10% was allocated in retail line. d. Use your answer to part B and data on the number of retail and business accounts to determine: v. The indirect cost per retail account, and vi. The indirect cost per business account Retail: 285 / 150 (number of accounts) = $1.9 Business: 2565 / 50 = $51.3 e. Assuming there are no direct costs or other indirect costs, compute the average contribution to profit per account for retail customers and for business customers. What business strategy would a manager using the original cost allocation system likely adopt? Why? Profit (retail): $10 - $1.9 = $8.1 Profit (Business): $40...
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...The Responsibility Project: The Second Line By Rebecca Powell The Responsibility Project: Second Line By Rebecca Powell May 6, 2013 What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film? * * Introduction * The film selected was called the Second Line located at www.responsiblity-project.libertymutual.com for this assignment. In review this information one will see that the world does not revolve our daily actions of life. The film gave a different approach in viewing the world and surrounding. The Second Line The purpose of this short film was to display how many individuals go about their lives living in a tunnel vision world. In the film Danny Glover the actor was shown as a business man who did not pay any attention to anything in his surrounding as he journey to work. In the world of which we all live many people are so caught up in their own world, not even taken the time to smell the flowers. People who tend to live in such a matter are not just blind to their own needs but also the needs of their community. The term tunnel visions which can be describe as one who is only focus on things within narrow vision. The main character of this film display this very term. This short film showed the main character who started out his day having car trouble. He really did not try any other options to see what the problem with his vehicle was. His goal was to get to work due to time that reflected on his watch....
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...to make sure the operation of his company flows effectively without stopping at any stage up to the current situation. The situation that Chad is facing is between the manufacturing and turn over. There is no problem with his existing staffs according to the case text. Therefore, Chad now needs to focus on inventory, scheduling, and maintenance to make the right decisions for each of it. Based on text, his manufacturing of standard line has many raw materials in manufacturing as work in process. This makes the progress is slow and caused Chad’s company unable to make a good turn over. They came across a critical situation as their finance status is not promising and not satisfying. Now, he need to make scheduling decision to make sure there is not many raw materials in the work in progress status. The standard line manufacturing need to be scheduled properly to avoid this problem. Secondly, the text had mentioned that standard product’s warehouse is costly to keep the inventory for long as space assuming. To solve out this problem, Chad need to make inventory and supply-chain decision. He must decide a good supply-chain and implement it before...
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...CASE NO.1 I. PAMPANGA CEMENT CORPORATION The government had been pushing the Pampanga cement corporation to switch their product into coal. II. SWOT ANALYSIS: Strength: * Can borrow money to bank (DBP/PNB) * Long term experience in business industry Weakness: * Rivalry in the executive position * Conflict with the employee * Financial problem Opportunities: * borrow money from banks * leader of labor union is compadre of atty. Alcantara Threats: * the labor union case threatened to strike over the issue of a 10% percent increase in wages * the government had been pushing cement companies to switch to coal * quarrel between the owner of the land III. ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION (A.C.A) * A.C.A #1 Switching to coal for production Advantages: 1.) Financial assistance from the banks 2.) Lower production cost of cement Disadvantages: 1.) High cost of expenses for installing 2.) Increase the company liability Conclusion: I there for conclude as my point of view switching cement to coal is the best way for the company to easily cope up their investment. Even though the installing of coal is in higher cost but in the end, the company will benefit the lower production cost compare to fuel. * A.C.A #2 Do their previous process of production and focus the solution for the internal issues of the company. Advantages: 1.) They can fix their receivable scandals 2.) They can talk about the labor union case Disadvantages:...
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...The impact of information technology on the HR function transformation By Yu Long 0123404 Graduation Committee: First supervisor: Dr. T. Bondarouk Course coordinator: Pro. Dr. J. K. Looise Master Thesis, Business Administration HRM University of Twente March, 2009 Preface This master thesis concludes my life as a student, which is performed under the supervision of Twente University in the Netherlands. The research is the terminal of the program Human Resource Management. Doing this research not only improves my skill on literature searching, information analysis, but helps me to gain more profound knowledge about e-HR. During the research, I have got great support from several persons, and now, here is the opportunity to thank them. At first, I give special thanks to Jiajie Li, my boyfriend. He accompanies with me during the whole research period. Besides dealing with my impatient and anxious attitude, he also put great effort on improving my thesis. His optimistic and serious attitude influences me, and makes me continue the research with better and better results every time. His support is very meaningful for my research period. Secondly, I would like to thank Ms. Tanya Bondarouk, and Prof. Jan Kees Looise for their excellent support, feedback and guidance. Both of them give me fruitful advice on how to improve my work. And they always give me timely feedback on my work, which encourages and makes me belief that I can hand in a satisfactory report under the effort...
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...ON-LINE PRODUCT SELLING Tired of working for other people? Thinking of going into business with a product idea that interest you? Set your own hours, be your own boss but you don’t have enough money for office set up, doing the complex legal documents and worrying how to promote and advertise your product in the market. Selling your product on-line is the best ways that will suites for you. On-line product selling is fast growing market in the country today. This mode of selling has a great edge over conventional way, it creates worldwide potential buyer, it is cheap and easy to set up. There are few key ingredients to become successful in this kind of selling. First, is just like any other business you need to plan everything before getting started. Having a well thought out and carefully structured business plan will give you proper directions to your goal. It will help you to focus your thoughts and be in valuable when it comes to developing your products on-line. In order to create effective business plan you must understand the market you are going into. In other words, you need to gather information, collect as much of it as possible as you can. You can never have too much information, even something which doesn’t seem to be important may turn-out to be crucial to your business plan at a later date. Second, doing on-line market research before you base an entire business on your product idea can save a lot of money and time. It will provide you pre-market research...
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...entrepreneurs who have created a business or product that they believed in. The industry of modeling is no different. The article from Forbes.com identifies a plus size woman, Ashley Graham, who created the healthy image of women to be pictured on the front cover of Sport Illustrated Magazine along with her own lingerie line. The article is written by Susan Adams who demonstrated a unique take on the everyday interviewing process which relates to the concepts of interviewing biases that we have discussed in class. The first concept that the article shows is about the business model with a closer look at two of the nine components; value proposition and customer segment. The article not only shows how entrepreneurs’ ideas come in all shapes and sizes but so do their owners. Graham not only is the first plus size woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but she has produced her own clothing line that has over $1.6 million in sales. She uses the business model to segment her market and assess the needs and values of her customers. The first step in the business model that I will be examining is the value proposition and how it is all about satisfying the needs of your customers and solving the problems that occur. This concept allows Graham to connect with her customers on a unique level by offering them a clothing/ lingerie line for those women who are plus size. She solves the plus sized women’s problem of finding lingerie by creating a line that is affordable yet elegant....
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...Cards CC#______________________________________ EXP._______________ SEC# (3 DIGITS ON BACK)________________CARD ZIP CODE___________ NOTE: WE WILL SHRED INFO AFTER CARD IS CHARGED. IF YOU DONATE $50 OR MORE, PLEASE FILL OUT THIS ORDER FORM: T‐SHIRT SIZE__________ (MAN/WOMAN) IF YOU DONATE $500 OR MORE, YOU GET A $100 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO ALPHA’S AUTO DETAIL NAME______________________________________________ ADDRESS____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ PHONE______________________________________________ EMAIL_______________________________________________ CHURCH_____________________________________________ DONATION AMOUNT__________________________________ TO DONATE BY CREDIT/DEBIT CARD, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING: Response Cards CC#______________________________________ EXP._______________ SEC# (3 DIGITS ON BACK)________________CARD ZIP CODE___________ NOTE: WE WILL SHRED INFO AFTER CARD IS CHARGED. IF YOU DONATE $50 OR MORE, PLEASE FILL OUT THIS ORDER FORM: T‐SHIRT SIZE__________ (MAN/WOMAN) IF YOU DONATE $500 OR MORE, YOU GET A $100 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO ALPHA’S AUTO DETAIL Organization Name Organization Information Your business tag line here. This would be a good place to insert a short paragraph about your organiza on. It might include the purpose of the organiza on, its mission, founding date, and a brief...
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...HR and Line Managers Line and Staff • Line function – The function that is directly responsible for achieving organizational objectives • Staff function – The function that supports line in achieving organizational objectives • HRM is a staff function, but line responsibility Need for a Separate HR Department • • • • Size of the organization Complexity of Manager’s Job Importance of Human Resources External Influences – Trade unions – Government • Need for consistency Line and HR Relationship • • • • Advisory Service Functional guidance Monitor/evaluate HR Practices Status of HR Department • • • • • Positioning of the Department Range of activities Qualifications & Experience of the staff Command by default Commend through competence Line Managers’ Responsibility in HRM: An Empirical Study Objectives To assess the extent of level of responsibility of line managers in various HRM activities To examine the variations in line managers’ involvement in various HRM activities, and To out the differences in their involvement based on • Nature of business, • Ownership of the organisations, and • Length of service of line managers Questionnaire Design • Procurement – Human resource planning, recruitment, selection and placement • Performance appraisal – designing performance appraisal system, driving appraisal process, evaluating employee performance, and performance counseling • Training – New employee orientation, assessment of...
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