...1 Apple’s Make vs. Buy Decision Tanjaneka Guy Dr. Robert Waldo Human Resource Management Foundations – HRM 500 October 29, 2011 Apple’s Make vs. Buy Decision 2 Best approaches to Recruiting Recruiting can include giving proper interviews. Human Resources recruitment is to build a supply of potential new hires that the organization can draw on if the need arises. Public employment agencies allows employees to register their job vacancies with their local state employment office, and the agency will try to find someone suitable, using its computerized inventory of local unemployed individuals. With rapid growth of internet use, it is becoming more important that a research site have a presence on the World Wide Web. Internet recruiting definitely would be valuable and best suited for Apple’s talent acquisition. Describe the recruiter traits and behaviors leading to successful recruiting The most successful recruiting campaign requires (1) Interaction – The ideal recruiter is able to communicate with others in a warm and helpful manner while building credibility. (2) Spoken communication – The ideal recruiter is able to present information clearly through spoken word. (3) Commitment to task – The ideal recruiter is able to start and persist with specific courses of action while exhibiting a high degree of self motivation and a sense of urgency. (4) Must have insight and need analysis. (5)...
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...Running Head: Apple’s Make-vs.-Buy Decision Apple’s Make-vs.-Buy Decision Apple’s best approach regarding hiring employees for their top technology or engineering positions would be private employment agencies. Since there is a huge secrecy that surrounds Apple’s products, employment agents have the ability to bring in the right fit candidates for Apple’s top positions. In regards to Apple’s entry level positions, recruiting at Colleges and Universities would be an successful and inexpensive tactic. Apple is a company which will continuously stay on the leading edge in new technology ideas. Therefore, it is extremely important for Apple to stay fresh with new perspectives and ideas. With this being the case, Apple shouldn’t only source their talent from internal sources such as referrals or all internal promotions. Internal sourcing can show growth and have succession planning in any company, but it shouldn’t be Apple’s one and only source of growth because it may limit new ideas and innovations from coming to the table from external experiences. In order for Apple to draw interest from the best talent, Apple must have the best talent searching for the best talent. The recruiters must be savvy and knowledgeable about Apple products. An individual who applies for a position most likely has...
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...control deficiency exists when the design or procedure of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. * A deficiency in design exists when a control necessary to meet the control objective is missing, or the control is not properly designed so that even if it operates as designed, the control objective is not always met. * A deficiency in operation exists when a properly designed control does not operate as designed or the person performing the control does not possess the necessary authority or qualifications to perform the control effectively. * A significant deficiency is a control shortage or a combination of control shortages that adversely affects the entity’s ability to initiate, authorize, record, process or report financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the entity’s financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected. * A material weakness is a significant deficit or combination of significant deficits that results in more than an isolated chance that a material misstatement of the financial...
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...caring or protecting themselves, they should start off by practicing in the environment and at home, it will be easier for them to protect themselves when in the hospital. The skills and knowledge will gain while practicing at home and in the environment. Sometimes the nurses forgot to look for the complex and dangerous threats that facing them in the working environment. Work place violence, define as the behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something in the workplace. Work place violence is one major threat that is facing the nurse’s safety in the environment. Nurses might get into trouble if they do not prevent themselves from the violence. Work place violence can result from lacking of nurses or shortage of nurses that works in one ward with plenty of patient. Working with plenty of patient may cause loose of concentration with the patient. This can cause the nurse to accidently poke herself or himself. That’s why it’s better for nurses to get enough sleep before going for their shifts. Nurse...
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...Self-Assessment I am Karen Franklin BSN, I have been a nurse for 4 years. I am applying for Clinical II, I have grown as a person and as a nurse. I have had the priviledge to work in several different areas of nursing and truly enjoy being a nurse. My first position was on a telemetry unit where I got to learn of how to care for and manage critical care patients. In addition to learning how care for my patient, I learned how to initiate care plans, comply with core measures and do bedside teaching with patients and families. I received ACLS certification, critical care certificates and basic arrhythmia certificates. As experienced nurse, I have learned how to effectively time manage, prioritize patient care and work independently, as well as, team member. My experience has allowed me to grow as nurse, using the skills I was taught can allow me to share my knowledge with others. I feel some of strenghts are having good clinical skills and a good of understanding of how to best care my patient’s. My peers can attest that I am willing to go the extra mile to help; I don’t mind answering other’s call bells, take patienys pain medication and assist with bathroom needs or repositioning. I volunteer once a month at a senior living facility in my area, also at church functions. In the future I would like to volunteer more and possibly do missionary work. In the past eight months I have taken on the role of charge nurse. I received a brief introductory on how to do the patient assignment...
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...Expansion of the H1-B Exploitation: More Cheap Labor and Outsourcing? The H1-B visa program has so many loopholes that it should be undergoing reform instead of expansion, since expansion would only promote further abuse of the program. Tech companies asking for expansion state that they have labor shortages and need to recruit the best and the brightest. One would assume that the best and the brightest would be paid at least as much as their American counterparts. However, Norman Matloff’s research has found that H1-B workers are actually paid, on average, 6% less than their comparable American counterparts. His research also found that the foreign workers’ talent was less than, or at best equal to, that of American workers. These findings makes one question whether there is a labor shortage and a need for the best, or if tech companies are simply using the visa program for cheap labor. Another concern are consulting companies that bring in offshore consultants. These companies are allegedly using the visa to bring workers to learn skills and then off-shoring the service. Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of technology, has been studying how consulting firms use the visas to help American company cut costs. He says, “What these firms have done is exploit the loopholes in the H-1B program to bring in on-site workers to learn the jobs [of] the Americans to then ship it back offshore.” Indeed, information on Molina payroll indicates that offshore...
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...over multiple units (Curtin, 2001). Nurse managers responsible for multiple units are severely challenged to maintain the needed blend and balance of clinical and business management, which is essential to staff nurse retention. Report after report identifies the importance of the nurse manager in retaining nursing staff (Boyle, Bott, Hansen, Woods, & Taunton, 1999; Corser, 1998; Cullen, 1999; Flannery & Grace, 1999; Fletcher, 2001; Kerfoot, 2000; Leveck & Jones, 1996; Slaughter, 2002; Taunton, Boyle, Woods, Hansen, & Bott, 1997). Further, staff nurses report burnout and dissatisfaction with their jobs and a concern about decreasing quality of care (Aiken et al., 2001; First Consulting Group, 2002). The data on the nursing shortage portends a health care delivery system in severe crisis. According to the American Hospital Association...
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...Nursing Shortages and Solutions Seketha Silas Walden University Nurs 3001-6, Issues & Trends in Nursing September 8, 2013 This assignment is about the concerns of the nursing shortage locally, nationally and globally. It will address some of the reasons and solutions for the nursing shortages. The purpose of this paper is to understand the nursing shortages and discuss some implementations that may help to resolve the shortages. Although, the country is experiencing an economic recession, think about January 2014 when millions of Americans will be able to get health insurance. Nursing may be the answer to some of the key healthcare and employment problems the US is struggling with right now. Lindsey (2013) states “with the graying of America has come a shortage of healthcare professionals, especially nurses. From 2009 to 2011, 85 percent of Associate Degree Nursing programs turned away qualified applicants.” (para 1) Nursing programs at some schools are closed due to funding cuts. There is lack of faculty at schools to train nurses. The lack of faculty to train new nurses definitely can cause concern for nursing shortages. Applicants are being turned away. Nurse educators have to endure lower salaries along with unrealistic expectations about their academic roles. Some nursing faculty is expected to balance their academic roles along with advancing their expertise and managing clinical practice. The lower salaries are sometimes lower than their colleagues working in...
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...Educational Preparation: Competencies, Associates Degree V’s Baccalaureate Nursing The History of the Associates Degree in Nursing Does an Associates degree in Nursing (ADN) or a Baccalaureate degree (BSN) in Nursing better prepare a nurse to function at a level required to remain autonomous in both general and critical care? At the end of World War II there was a shortage of nurses working in the hospital setting. The Baccalaureate degree required a four-year education, and the shortage could not wait for this completion. It was recognized that there would need to be two-tier’s of nursing, both a professional BSN and a technical ADN nurse (Matthias 2010). Mildred Montag completed her research on The Education of Technical Nurses (Matthias 2010) and developed the Associates Degree nurse, or technical nurse, who would complete routine or intermediate nursing care under the supervision of a Baccalaureate degree nurse. However, the ADN’s technical only skill set dissolved and they were functioning at no different level than their counterparts the BSN, working side by side with only their education differentiating them from each other in the work place. Course Variation There is a year in difference between a diploma and Associates prepared nurse v’s Baccalaureate prepared nurse. However, there are courses that researchers have placed an emphasis on to act autonomous and outside the original restrictions of a technical nurse. These courses include critical thinking, social...
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...intended to create a rhythm of practicing by working together in groups and then proving your individual knowledge by producing your own writing. Assignments: 1. Group email (informative). Email to the instructor describing the company. 2. Individual email (invitation). Email to other individuals in the company inviting them to a brainstorming meeting about how to resolve a staffing shortage. 3. Group memo (information report). Memo written to the company’s CEO reporting options generated in the brainstorming meeting. 4. Individual memo (persuasive memo). Memo written to all departments asking them to share information on their best employees for the purpose of reassigning those employees to solve staffing shortages in certain departments. 5. Group business letter (request for information). Letter written to a temp agencies requesting information on temp workers to help solve staffing shortage. 6. Individual business letter (request for information). Letter written to a college requesting information about internship programs for the company to help solve staffing shortage. 7. Group negative reply letter. Letter written to the college explaining a negative decision about unpaid internships. 8. Individual negative reply letter. Negative reply letter written to a college student who had applied for an unpaid internship. 9. Group request for proposal. Letter written as a request for a proposal...
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...nation that possesses an excellent harvest of plantain will enjoy low prices as there is much plantain in the market. Plantain is still scarce in economic sense as it can still run out. On the other hand, emotions like love, courage, fear, and many others cannot be measured with the economic concepts of scarcity as these emotions cannot be bounded. This clearly indicates that their abundance do not affect their economic scarcity ( Prioktan, 2008 ) In economic sense, when something is abundant it means its supply exceed demand at zero price. In simplicity, if a good or service is free, there is no shortage. This indicates that there is no opportunity cost in supplying it. Free health care to the sick is still considered scarce in economic sense because the government have to incur the cost and thus the taxpayers. Air can be considered abundant since there hardly be shortage of air to most people to breathe most of the time. On the other hand, air is scarce if we want it clean or unpolluted as resources most be used to clean it in many part of the world. References Rittenberg,L.& Tregarthan,L.(2009).Principles of economics.New York. Flat World Knowledge Inc. Prioktan (2008).Does the fact that something is abundant mean it is not scarce in the economic sense?. Retrieved from:...
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...Science says there is 6 reasons people say yes! The Six Principles of Influence ( Six Weapons of Influence) were created by Robert Cialdini, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. Cialdini identified the six principles through experimental studies: The six principles are as follows: 1. Reciprocity As humans, we generally aim to return favors, pay back debts, and treat others as they treat us. According to the idea of reciprocity, this can lead us to feel obliged to offer concessions or discounts to others if they have offered them to us. One example of this concept was tested with Mints being handed out with the bill at restaurants. Tips increased with server giving more than three mints and telling the customer that for being great customers she gave them extra. Tips increased exponentially. 2. Commitment Cialdini says that we have a deep desire to be consistent. For this reason, once we've committed to something, we're then more inclined to go through with it. For instance, you'd probably be more likely to support a colleague's project proposal if you had shown interest when he first talked to you about his ideas. 3. Social Proof This principle relies on people's sense of "safety in numbers." If you have ever been in a hotel and read the sign suggesting reuse of towels. Hotels learned that by putting a statement saying how many guests reuse towels the number actually increases. “90% of hotel guests reuse their...
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...Addressing the Nursing Workforce Shortage After researching the current and future state of the nursing workforce, there are many issues regarding the nursing workforce that should be addressed at the upcoming retreat. To begin, the reason for emphasis on the nursing workforce is that nurses constitute the largest group among the health service providers (Barton, 2010), as you very well may be aware. Without considering implications that affect the largest group of the workforce, the organization will not be able to strategically plan for the shift of the nursing shortage currently at-hand. First, we must consider the current workforce distribution of nurses. A national survey by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers in 2013, indicates roughly 55% of the RN workforce being at the age of 50 years old or older (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014). With the current demographic makeup of this group, it is inevitable that a majority of the nursing population will be retiring soon from practice and teaching. While the Affordable Care Act tries to address the projected shortage by increasing the supply of workforce, increase the support of training, and establishing loan and grant payments, the shortage of nurses may very well be still be an issue. If issues regarding the lack of faculty and training continue, similar to the rate as reported in 2010 with 80,000 qualified applicants being denied entry to...
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...reliable business solution based on currently available evidence. Background Monarch is currently experiencing a deficit in the supply of nurses. In particular, the deficit is on the second shift. But, overall, the actual problem to address is a less than optimal supply of nurses. The plan to remedy the problem for the actual shift involved will be addressed in the strategy and implementation. This deficit of nurses will cause delayed delivery of care to patients and/or adverse events. This will likely lead to patient dissatisfaction, lawsuits and the hospital absorbing unnecessary and unplanned for costs. These factors will ultimately lead to a reduced number of hospital admissions. Monarch must achieve the ability to control the shortage instead of surrendering to it. This report will examine two of the four currently considered options. The first option is hiring additional permanent personnel and the second is hiring short-term, temporary personnel to be used on an as needed basis. Business and Operational Impacts The factors leading to a reduced numbers of hospital admissions will affect the hospital’s financial bottom line. Many of the major insurance carriers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no longer extend additional payments for nursing-sensitive complications that could have been prevented or were not present on admission. Hospitals must absorb this cost. Nurses are primary caregivers to patients. Investing in nursing is a way to help...
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...There were many things that I observed during the Capstone experience. The first thing was that many of the nurses were severely fatigued throughout the night shift. Some nurses relied heavily on caffeine throughout the night and others would get multiple items from the vending machine. A couple nurses had a hard time keeping their eyes open, while other nurses were wide awake throughout the entire shift. I also observed nurses taking breaks and walking the stairs to help themselves gain more energy. I found it most shocking that one of the individuals having a very hard time coping with the night shift had over 10 years of permanent night shift experience. This individual often mentioned how he would only sleep a few hours in between shifts...
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