...of disengagement and employee turnover, it’s a little wonder that companies are looking for ways to optimize the stages of their employee life cycle. “The cost of disengagement is staggering – it leads to more than $450 billion in lost profits in the U.S. annually!” as per Gallup’s State Of The American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights For U.S. Business Leaders. According to experts, when it comes to the cost of employee turnover the, “estimates run as high as 150 percent of annual salary!” The stages of an employee life cycle are defined or named differently across organizations, but this is how employee life cycle looks like in most companies: While analyzing insights from our clients, at 9Lenses we do a “Tenure Segmentation,” which categorizes the employee life cycle into Less than One year, 1-2 years, 2-4 years and 4+ year. We then track employee engagement through these stages of an employee life cycle using passive engagement measures. But before we move on any further, here are two theories that you need to know. These theories have been proved time and time again by researches and most of our data-sets confirm them too: 1. Engagement is Related to Tenure. Studies have consistently revealed that larger organizations struggle with employee engagement through various stages. “The highest employee engagement occurs in companies employing less than 10 people.” This may be reflected in the growing number of people leaving large companies to either found startups...
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...prove to be a problem as the potential liability associated with these relationships rises. Some organizations ban all workplace dating, while other employers have no policy at all to address these issues. Most organizations fall somewhere in between, with explicit or at least implicit policies that forbid or discourage certain workplace relationships. After all, with the amount of time people spend working, it’s impossible to meet people in the traditional meeting places such as church, the neighborhood, family events, and leisure time activities do not present the same kind of people. In contrast, the office provides a natural selection of people who share at least one important interest. People who work together also live within a reasonable dating distance, and share a location, so they see each other on a daily basis. Coworkers in similar jobs may also be around the same age, and share the same interests both inside and outside of work. Consensual relationship policies are an important tool in managing the risk of sexual harassment and discrimination claims. However, they must be thoughtfully created and administered with care. Before an employer asks that a couple signs a consensual relationship agreement, the employer should meet with the employee and make sure they understands the company's sexual harassment and discrimination policy and document the employee's file with a summary of the interview, the information provided to the...
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...Regulating Work Place Romances By At some time during your working life, you may have dated, or even married, someone you met at work. If you haven't, then the odds are that you know someone who has. A 1995 survey estimated that 80 percent of all employees have either observed or been involved in a romantic relationship at work. 1. The Problems with Employee Dating Even though romantic relationships in the workplace are common, employers have legitimate reasons for concern about employee dating. The biggest fear is a sexual harassment lawsuit arising from either: 1) a supervisor who has a habit of asking subordinates out on dates; 2) an employee who files a lawsuit after a consensual relationship goes sour; or 3) the perception of co-workers that a supervisor is playing favorites with his or her "significant other." Sexual harassment laws prohibit "unwelcome" sexual advances. Therefore, the participants in a truly "consensual" relationship cannot prove sexual harassment. The difficulty for the employer is proving that the relationship was consensual. Often, an employee will argue that he or she was an unwilling participant in a relationship that merely appeared to be consensual. Even a consensual relationship, if it goes sour, can result in unwelcome advances, stalking, or other predatory conduct. In a consensual relationship between a supervisor and a subordinate, the subordinate often is the recipient of preferential treatment. Employees have asserted claims for...
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...whose work limits their extracurricular activities. However, these workplace relationships tend to be a problem as the legal responsibility connected with these romances rises. A few businesses prohibit all workplace romances, whereas others have no policy at all to address these matters. Most businesses fall in between and have policies that ban relationships or discourage distinct workplace romances. A CRA (Consensual Relationship Agreement) is essentially a written “contract” in which the romantically involved parties acknowledge the following: * Their relationship is voluntary and consensual. * They agree to abide by the employer’s antidiscrimination, anti-harassment, and workplace conduct policies. * They promise to report any perceived harassment to a management, if it occurs. * They agree to behave professionally and not to allow the relationship to affect their performance. * They agree to avoid behavior that offends others in the workplace. * They agree not to engage in favoritism. This is especially an issue if one of the employees is in a higher management position and has the authority to influence rewards available to the other employee. ( (Hellriegel & Slocum, Jr, 2011, p. 65) The practice of a CRA should be taken serious at my future workplace. The last business establishment that I work for did not have a CRA policy. Since there was no CRA in place...
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... ( ) erratic movements ( ) a gradual rise ( ) to level off ( ) a dramatic fall ( ) fluctuations ( ) to reach a peak ( ) a sharp recovery | ( ) a gradual fall ( ) a plateau ( ) to take a plunge ( ) a steady increase ( ) to leap upwards ( ) a decline ( ) to slump | B. Create your own business jargon. Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | strategic | cost-based | core competency | interactive | logistical | alliance | responsive | discretionary | re-engineering | reciprocal | empowering | values | customer-oriented | visionary | benchmark | functional | partnering | paradigm | C. What do these jargon mean? 1. For many firms, the idea of going global is a major effort to push the envelope. 2. The acid test for many firms is whether they can compete globally. 3. Management had a globasm thinking about the prospects of increased sales to international customers. 4. The lion's share of a can of worms created by a turkey trot would mean little in vegetarian cultures! 5. In the U.S.,face time and glad handing has some face value when trying to get one's foot in the door. 6. In the last decade, yuppies have been replaced by DINKS and now DINS. 7. To veg out based on revenue from your cash cow would probably confuse people from many Asian countries. 8. Playing devil's advocate is not a good way...
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...Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Background Introduction This research aims to find the Significance of personality enhancement to the employability of hotel and restaurant graduates a four-year or a two-year concentration in Hotel and Restaurant Management is designed to prepare successful graduates for management positions in the field. Managers in the hotel and restaurant industry are generally responsible for keeping their establishment efficient and profitable while maximizing comfort of guests. This includes overseeing many aspects of the business including staffing and personnel, accounting, purchasing, and customer service. A hotel manager is responsible for coordinating registration, housekeeping, and maintenance activities, and may also coordinate special events, banquets, or conventions. This person will also decide on and arrange for outside services such as deliveries, laundry, trash collection, maintenance, and repairs. A restaurant manager must carefully observe food preparation, and may be responsible for ordering appropriate amounts of food and ensuring quality of inventory as well as coordinating and maintaining menus. Additionally, they are responsible for maintaining sanitation standards in the kitchen and dining areas. Restaurant managers will also decide on and arrange for outside services such as deliveries, laundry, trash collection, maintenance, and repairs. In the field personality enhancement is needed to...
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...Name: Yang Choy, Yessica Class: ORGB3201 Instructor: Prof. John Griffith Reference: “The 8th Tuesday. We talk about money” – Tuesdays with Morrie “Working with a purpose and setting the right value” What do you want? What do you need? Can you distinguish the differences between wants and needs? When you are asked to classify an item under any of these categories, most of the people can distinguish it, but how many of these people would actually apply this when they are seeking for something? The human brain is a very complex organ, it allows us to think, feel, move, sense, hear, taste and smell. The vast amount of today’s information, we are always busy receiving, processing, analyzing and storing the information retrieved; gradually we started to forget our meaning of doing so; we started to lose the intention in doing something, the reason to work, to study and even the purpose of life. As Morrie addressed on the 8th Tuesday: “It’s all part of the same problem. We put our values in the wrong things.” It seems very straight forward what Morrie said, the problem is that human now a day mistakenly put the wrong value in something or undervalued things that should worth more. In general, every human being in a certain stage or maybe in our entire live valued a piece of smooth rectangular greenish paper the most, no matter what we are doing, this piece of paper somehow link with our purpose, reason or meaning that we gives to our actions. Money isn’t everything, but without...
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...wrong with the server or the website itself and might just be your connection. If you are a customer who has dial-up then it will definitely take you longer to load a page, over a customer that has for example Virgin Media fibre optic. Also if you are using mobile broadband it may take longer if you are in an area with bad signal and you are not getting 4G. So make sure you have fairly fast internet before you complain about slow servers hosting the sites. Browser Some people think using an older web browser might not make a difference but...
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...GARY COKINS, CPIM Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC www.garycokins.com 401 Hogans Valley Way Cary, NC 27513 e-mail: gcokins@garycokins.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ Word count = 2,491 The Obstacle Course for Getting Buy-in for Analytics Why is the adoption rate for applying analytics so slow? Technology is no longer the impediment. It once was, but software capabilities are proven. The barriers involve resistance to change and unfamiliarity. These are social, behavioral, and cultural issues; and few analysts are trained in behavioral change management. What is involved with these barriers, and how can analysts overcome resistance and get organizational buy-in? Organizations that achieve competency with analytics are able to sustain a long-term competitive advantage. Careers sometimes have more to do with luck and circumstances than being smart and competent. I have been fortunate in having luck to meet opportunity. My 1960s high school love for mathematics led to degrees in industrial engineering and operations research at Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. After ten years in CFO and operations line manager roles, I enjoyed fifteen years in management consulting on enterprise performance improvement projects with Deloitte, KPMG, and Electronic Data Systems (EDS, now owned by HP). During my consulting years I worked...
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...categories, along with management structure and issues that one may encounter when dealing with operational as well as financial situations. Being that technology is an always changing implement, one will identify the impact of potential change factors in the role technology plays along with any other factors that may have an impact. There are three aspects that build up an organization, basic legal environment, social environment and economic environment. Country, state and international laws are what govern the basic legal environment of an organization. This is where prohibited items of production and sales can be found. Also included are employee protection laws that protect individuals from being discriminated based on race, sex, religion or age. Financial laws and included laws that deal with taxes and ethics of a business all fall under the basic legal environment. Consumers are also protected, ensuring satisfaction by making sure items are weighing in at the price they are being sold at or making sure that product descriptions are not misleading. Social environment of an organization is where all that impacts a business is covered. Since society is where businesses operate, factors such as family, education, religion etc. impacts the way a business is conducted. Economic environment within a business organization include factors that are divided into two categories, macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics includes factors that are related to sectors...
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...Attracting and selecting the right talent is critical to a company’s success. For tech companies, the process is even more critical since it’s the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their employees that determines these companies’ efficiency, innovation, and ultimately, financial achievements. Modis, a global provider of IT staffing and recruiting, has an interesting philosophy about searching for talented tech types. As pressure has mounted on businesses to find qualified employees, the search for the “perfect” candidate has become increasingly competitive. This company calls this “search for perfection the quest for the ‘purple squirrel’”. Sometimes you have to realize that, like the purple squirrel, the “perfect” candidate isn’t available or doesn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean you don’t try to find the best available talent. How do some of the big tech names spot talent? For “mature” tech companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard (H-P), the challenge can be especially difficult since they don’t have the allure of start-ups or the younger, “sexier” tech companies. So these businesses have to “pour on the charm.” Take IBM, for instance. After its Watson computer beat two former Jeopardy champions in a televised match, the company hauled the machine to Carnegie Mellon, a top school, where students got a chance to challenge the computer. IMB’s goal: lure some of those students to consider a career at IBM. H-P is using the pizza party/tech talk approach at...
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...to make important decisions, hire staff and run the day to the day operations of your business. It might sound like fun stuff but it is hard work. As a manager, you will be the first one to arrive and the last one to leave. All responsibility will fall on you. The perks of being in hotel and restaurant management business, however, can be great. As a manager, you are responsible for everything that goes on in your hotel or restaurant. You need to have food orders in on time, make sure guests are accommodated for and ensure that your staff respects and listens to you. You must be a great communicator and leader to succeed in hotel and restaurant management. Whether it is a high profile hotel, a glamorous restaurant or a small deli, a manager must indulge himself in the business. If one thing goes wrong it falls on the manager’s shoulders. The service industry is the biggest industry in the United States today. It garners more attention and customers than any other business in the country. Don’t expect this trend to stop. Small businesses are currently thriving in the U.S. More and more of these offices are popping up everywhere. Combine that with the stature of the service industry and a small hotel or restaurant can prove to be quite profitable. Being involved in hotel and restaurant management is becoming a common experience for many people today. People with little to no experience are getting into the business. But those who do the best have a degree specializing in management...
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...Hospital. Our local hospital Sutter Delta Hospital has a Substance Abuse program. They provide information about substance abuse and they work with the largest treatment center in Northern California called the Impulse Treatment Center. The Impulse Treatment Center provides resources such as where they can go for group therapy, extended care, long treatment care, and intensive out patient care. This program is not a free program however your insurance company may cover it. When deciding to use this program we should learn more about being a healthy and learning the signs of someone who is unhealthy and need treatment. When you are healthy, you are free from any sickness/illness, you feel good about yourself, and your body is physically fit. When you are healthy it also means that you feel positive mentally and physically. The relationship between health and Psychology go hand in hand because in order to have a healthy life you should be physically healthy but you should also feel mentally stable. If you are not mentally stable it will make an impact on your over all health. Some people who are psychologically not stable will become ill because they may decide that they do not want to eat, they seclude themselves from human and some may get very depressed that they decide to take his or her own life and some cannot handle the pressure that they are feeling so they decide to take drugs so that it can ease the pain and make themselves feel better for the time being. Those signs are signs...
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...motivation is the key factor of performance that leads to accomplishments. Motivation is needed in every single part of our lives, from getting up in the morning to making your dinner after work. The most important factor that drives us in our society and our world is motivation, is what has lead us to the moon, fly, drive vehicles, cross over continents to discover other civilizations, and continue to innovate technology that is driving us to a more futuristic society. Motivation is describes as the conscious or unconscious stimulus, incentive, or motives for action toward a goal resulting from psychological or social factors, the factors giving the purpose or direction to behavior (Borkowski, 2015). In the healthcare workforce the employee’s motivation is what impacts the services and performance, giving managers the understanding what employees need to perform effectively. The acknowledgment of what makes an employee motivated is truly important in order to extract the maximum potential that the employee has in order to perform quality work with positive results. The psychology behind work performance has been changing for years in order to have the latest effective strategy to increase positive potential performance and most importantly employee satisfaction. After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why...
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...business that is going to ignore this is putting the growth of their company at risk. One obvious business advantage of making the business more mobile is that it allows the business to keep going no matter where you may be at.” A study by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council found that business owners estimate they save 291 hours of their own time each year using mobile technology. That’s an extra five or six hours a week that can be spent focusing on generating revenue rather than toiling on admin”. Moving the company in a mobile direction and creating an application is the smartest thing to do. Applications are now probably the best way for the company to add value to the business and communicate directly with the customers. A huge positive with using applications is they are very cost effective and efficient. “The modern client will always go for the products or services that meet them at their comfort zone. You can only achieve this by creating applications that run on the most used gadgets around the globe, making it easier for prospective clients to reach you.” In a world dominated by the internet ,smartphones, and tablets the importance of mobile apps cannot be dismissed. I feel in the near future that applications will be just as important as having a website for your business. The roles that smartphones play in society is huge anymore, so being a business why not use that to your advantage. So from a business stand point it only makes...
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