...Best Way to Hire People Donalisa Johnson Kline English Proficiency/01 July 13, 2015 Facilitator: Beth Pouska Best Way to Hire People Building a great organization requires great employees. Hiring the ideal employee for a particular position, whether you are attempting to promote internally or hire externally, can be very stressful. The purpose of an effective hiring process is to increase the organization’s potential, but an ineffective hiring process can cause the organization to spend excessive money and time, and create a bad reputation in the marketplace. This essay will address the best way to hire people. Step 1: Job Posting An effective job posting should be clear and concise and attract qualified candidates. It is best to ensure that the job description is clear and can be understood, if not applicants will assume that they will enjoy the job and can perform the job. List specific requirements and limitations for the job requirements; for example, educational requirement, experience requirement, and scheduling requirement. The employer should be up front about the job description and requirements. The employer should recommend that the candidate not to apply if they can’t perform the duties in the job description or meet the job requirements. Avoid creating simple applications which only requests a resume to be attached. Instead, add an assignment to the application, which requires the applicant to follow instructions and put forth greater efforts...
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...2. Company Structure an History 3. Legal Regulations 4. Plan of Assessment 5. Methods of Advertising 6. Hiring Process 7. Interview and Selection Process 8. Orientation 9. Training 10. Compensation and Benefits 11. Performance and Appraisal System 12. Conclusion An Organization needs several different branches to function as a whole. The HR Department is just one section of an organization that is needed to make all things work accordingly. This HR plan shows the structure of how a Solo HR operation facilitates the employees needs within the organization. HR is necessary to the company as it pertains to profitability, which in turn requires some type of strategic planning to help guide the employees in a successful direction. As you will find that this HR plan explains various steps that are taken to ensure the success of the HR Department as it utilizes its many functions. The different functions are detailed as to what they do and who they are beneficial to. In order to achieve success HR follows best practice in its planning and design phase. A Solo HR Department faces challenges when attempting to develop and implement a strategic model that is expected to align with the organizations core values and missions. This essay will seek to show how effective a well designed HR plan can be to an organization that is looking to be successful. Company Structure and History Angels Destiny LLC is a GA based freight brokering company, that...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Age discrimination has existed for a long period of time. The purpose of this essay is to examine the age discrimination issue in Singapore, and the scope of this essay will covers the issues and the group of people involved, why it is important for us to talk about it, and where we can start to fix the problem. All the results reported in the essay were obtained from the newspaper articles, internet as well as a self-driven survey. (79 words) THE ISSUES AND WHO ARE INVOLVED Prejudice and Discrimination has resulted in unfair treatment among the older workers in the society. In this essay, I will be examining the reasons that led to age discrimination among the older workers in Singapore, how this had affected the society, and what the individuals and the society can do to reduce such discrimination. The reason for choosing this particular area to talk about is because age discrimination is something that had existed for long time, and many older workers have always been out casted either by their employees or from job agencies once they hit certain age or when they are nearing their retirement age. As new generation will always be there to replace the older ones, thus older workers will always be faced with age discrimination, as the younger generation are more efficient and their pay is lower. Age discrimination have resulted in many older workers facing lack of jobs, unjustified layoffs and even forced retirements. Furthermore, age discrimination...
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...Reducing Workers Compensation Claims According to an essay published online by CCH Incorporated, the first step in reducing workers’ compensation costs involves ensuring that your company has effective safety and accident prevention programs in place to reduce the amount and severity of workplace illnesses and injuries. In addition to those programs, there are policies and procedures that should be implemented to help supervisors and Human Resources professionals in handling workers’ compensation claims in the most expedient manner possible. Having an active safety program has a number of benefits. Some are obvious. Others are not. A safety program gives employees a sense that their employer cares about them. Issuing personal protective equipment should be part of the safety program as should periodic inspection and replacement of worn or damaged safety equipment. Rotating work schedules or job duties can reduce repetitive-stress injury problems. An additional benefit is that doing so keeps workers more interested in their work and more focused on the job they are doing which also tends to reduce injuries. A mandatory safety training program also lets your employees know that any work related injury is bad for them and bad for the company. All employees should participate in safety activities including those workers in administrative positions or performing office work. Ideally, the message employers want to deliver is that everyone has a vested interest in minimizing these...
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...best-known and most admired companies refer to searching information on the Web around the world * Start with student project by two Stanford University graduates—Larry Page and Sergey Brin—in 1996, * Google became the most frequently used Web search engine on the Internet with 1 billion searches per day in 2009 * other innovative applications such as Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Picasa. * Google grew from 10 employees working in a garage in Palo Alto to 10,000 employees operating around the world by 2009. (Bauer T., 2009) * Over the past few years , Google has grown dramatically and is still developing in the global market. * Competitors and system innovations: * --Portals (Google vs Yahoo, MSN) * -- Planned Payment service ( Google vs EBay) * -- Supported software ( Google vs Microsoft ) In order to survive in this competitive global market, Google have to make Decisions: 1. Google resisted pop-up advertising, because the company felt that it was annoying to end-users. 2. Keeping their employees happy is also a value they take to heart. 3. Google encourages employee risk taking and innovation. 4. Decisions at Google are made in teams based on data. Google stripped the search page of all distractions and presented users with a blank page consisting only of a company logo and a search box. They insisted that all their advertisements would be clearly marked as “sponsored links.” other companies were focused on marketing...
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...Everyone agrees that business managers must understand finance and marketing. But is it necessary for them to study ethics? Managers who answer in the negative generally base their thinking on one of three rationales. They may simply say that they have no reason to be ethical. They see why they should make a profit, and most agree they should do so legally. But why should they be concerned about ethics, as long as they are making money and staying out of jail? Other managers recognize that they should be ethical but identify their ethical duty with making a legal profit for the firm. They see no need to be ethical in any further sense, and therefore no need for any background beyond business and law. A third group of managers grant that ethical duty goes further than what is required by law. But they still insist that there is no point in studying ethics. Character is formed in childhood, not while reading a college text or sitting in class. These arguments are confused and mistaken on several levels. To see why, it is best to start with the question raised by the first one: why should business people be ethical? Why Should One Be Ethical? There is already something odd about this question. It is like asking, “Why are bachelors unmarried?” They are unmarried by definition. If they were married, they would not be bachelors. It is the same with ethics. To say that one should do something is another way of saying it is ethical. If it is not ethical, then one should...
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...of the overall profit. Zara has remained focused on its core fashion philosophy that creativity and quality design together with a rapid response to market demands will yield profitable results. One of Zara’s many approaches is fast fashion. A contemporary term used by fashion retailers to acknowledge that designs move from catwalk to store in the fastest time (2weeks!) to capture current trends in the market. This "fast fashion" system depends on a constant exchange of information throughout every part of Zara's supply chain—from customers to store managers, from store managers to market specialists and designers, from designers to production staff, from buyers to subcontractors, from warehouse managers to distributors, and so on. Most companies insert layers of bureaucracy that can bog down communication between departments. But Zara's organization, operational procedures, performance measures, and even its office layouts are all designed to make information transfer easy (HBS). Material Team Design Team...
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...Contents 1. Analyze Bob using the Maslow need hierarchy 2 2. Analyze Bob’s lack of motivation using equity theory and expectancy theory. 6 3. If you were Bob’s boss, what could you do to positively influence his motivation? 10 4. What are the implications of this case for employers hiring generation Xers? 12 5. References 15 1. Analyze Bob using the Maslow need hierarchy. Maslow’s needs hierarchy is one of the four early motivation theories conceptualized and realized by Abraham Maslow, it is also the best-known hierarchy of needs theory (Robbin & Coulter, 2012). He was a psychologist professor who articulated that every human has five levels of needs hierarchy which is namely Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem and Self Actualization. (Robbin & Coulter, 2012) Maslow further claimed that each level in the needs hierarchy has to be significantly satisfied before the next level becomes dominant, he reiterates that it is a step by step process where individual move up each level ascending the needs pyramid. Besides the pyramid needs has been further separated into two tiers which is lower-order needs (basic needs) and higher order needs (social needs). Physiological and Safety are at the bottom of the tier and are classified as lower order needs whereas Social, Esteem and Self-actualization which is in the mid span of the tier till the top of the tier is considered as higher order needs. Bob life’s happenings relate directly to Maslow as he was focusing...
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...------------------------------------------------- MBA SEMESTER 2 ------------------------------------------------- MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL ------------------------------------------------- LECTURER DAVID HALL AND DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- MHC ASSIGNMENT | HRM-TQM PERSPECTIVES AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODOLOGIES | MHC ASSIGNMENT | HRM-TQM PERSPECTIVES AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODOLOGIES | PART “A” ESSAY 2327 WORDS (EXCLUDING REFERENCES) HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES Table of Contents Table of contents 3 Abstract 4 Introduction 5-6 Literature Review/Discussion ..7-9 British Perspective 7-8 Latin American Perspective 8-9 Conclusion 9-10 References 11 ABSTRACT Nowadays in the modern organizations Human Resource Management (HRM) is a key issue not only for a competitive advantage in the business and the development or success of the companies is also a key point for the welfare of the organizations as an entity. The Management of the Human Resources is a matter of perspectives according to Audrey Collin on her general review...
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...change in the pivotal points or activities (Boudreau 2007), HR may need to relocate the workforce to respond to the shift in business focus. Now let's explore some important aspects of this Revise phase through core HR functions. Here the focus is on how HR could discover where it needs to change. First, from HR function of Recruitment and Retention, HR should revise its workforce portfolio; identify which skills and staffs should the company keep, recruit, or lay-off by aligning with the business strategy according to Best fit or the contingency approach (Sparrow and Hiltrop 1994). The cut may not be a good solution since the research shows that the heavily-cost-cutting companies during the downturn have the lowest probability-21%-of pulling ahead of the competition when times get better. That is one of the easiest ways out that show the immediate impact on the cash flow, where managers' performances are measured. Managers can't be totally blamed for doing so as Peter Drucker put it, "What get measured gets done" (Drucker 1954). However, companies have to look for new...
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...FIJI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ASSESSMENT DECLARATION This form must be completed, signed, dated and attached to your assignment that you submit for marking. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, HOSPITALITY & TOURISM STUDIES 1. Administrative Details STUDENT NAME: Devika Chand STUDENT ID NUMBER UNIT OF STUDY: ACC 409 2015131951 TITLE OF ASSESSMENT: Supply Chain Management DATE DUE: 19/10/2015 DATE SUBMITTED: 19/10/2015 TUTORIAL/CLASS TIME: Thursday 8-10am 2. Compulsory Student Declaration Plagiarism means using another person’s intellectual output and presenting it (without appropriate acknowledgement of the author or source) as one’s own. Plagiarism constitutes academic misconduct. Where there are reasonable grounds for believing that this has occurred, disciplinary procedures of the University will be instituted. PLEASE TICK TO INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE SATISFIED THESE REQUIREMENTS: o I have read the policy on Programme Regulation on preventing plagiarism and the relevant referencing guides (or have had this explained to me by my unit coordinator) and understand the consequences of committing academic misconduct as outlined in the policy. o This assignment is my own work, I have not participated in collusion, nor have I previously submitted this or a version of it for assessment in any other Unit of Study at the University or any other institution without having obtained the approval of the teacher. o I have taken proper and reasonable care to prevent...
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...Describe the History and core history of each company. Eastman Kodak Company was established by George Eastman in Rochester NY in 1882. In 1883, Eastman announced the invention of photographic film in rolls. The name Kodak was patent in 1888. He picked the unique name because he wanted a name that started and ended with the letter K. He also knew the name was different than any other names he has heard and would be unforgettable. Eastman as an inventor who introduced armature photopraphy placed its first camera on the market in 1888. The camera was pre-filled with 100 exposures, after taking pictures customers would return the whole camera back to the manufactures to get the film developed and the camera reloaded with more film. The company’s slogan was “You press the button, we do the rest.” George Eastman literally invented popular photography with the silver-halide film process. Eastman had a specific set of core values and mission statement for his company. The values he set forth are, respect for the dignity of the individual, integrity, trust, credibility, continuous improvement and personal renewal, recognition and celebration. The mission of Kodak is to “grow more rapidly than our competitors by providing customers with solutions they need to capture, store, process, output and communicate images anywhere, anytime.” The company prided itself on making sure that the mission statement and core of the company was represented in how they treated their customers...
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...Research shows that online learning is equal or better than traditional classroom experience. There has been a strong debate about online education and traditional on campus education, this essay will point out the facts about both online and traditional, on campus, teaching’s. Traditional Education A. The traditional education system relies on a style of learning intended to allow students to gain individual meaning and learning to the subject matter. Traditional education focuses on individual student’s needs and self-expression. Traditional education has a more hands-on approach that utilizes both the teacher’s intellectual values and skills as well as the students. B. Traditional schools have a more one-on-one intercourse between professor and student. 1. In a traditional school you can interact with students easier than if you were online. Living on campus lets you have a space to call your own. Online Education A. Students are given the opportunity to choose from various schools, programs and courses which are not available in the area where they live in. 1. Offers flexibility to students. Allows a more student-centered teaching approach. B. Getting an online education may help in ensuring that each lesson or material is completely understood before moving on to the next. 1. Online course materials can be accessed 24 hours a day every day. Students can easily read and review lectures, discussions and other materials relevant to their course...
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...industry. The motivation theory that would be most effective to motivate these employee groups would be Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This essay will discuss the reasons why Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs would be most effective for of motivation. The needs hierarchy model says “that individuals have a complex set of exceptionally strong needs, that can be arranged in a hierarchy” (Hellriegel & Slocum 161). It also indicates that an individual has five types of needs: physiological, security, affiliation, esteem, and self-actualization. Human needs must be satisfied in order to achieve motivation and challenge employers to provide a workplace environment that encourage and enables employees to reach their own self-actualization. Physiological needs are at the bottom of the model. These are the needs for desire of food, water, air, or shelter. These are the primary elements to live, therefore, motivates people to get a job. Leaders in this level know that employees are not focused on their job, but need any job to live. Individuals work on satisfying these needs before moving up the model to fulfill other needs. Zachry Industrial offers employees at the plant a lifetime membership of twenty dollars to encourage well being and exercise at the plant gym. This level of the hierarchy can motivate the three groups of employees. There are many ways companies offer...
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...Information Technology Case and Application Research, 15(3), 3-24. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.uwrf.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1475042160?accountid=9576 Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2013). Human Resource Policies and Practices. Organizational Behavior (15th ed., pp. 542-568). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.. Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2013). Organizational Change and Stress Management. Organizational Behavior (15th ed., pp. 576-608). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.. Synthesis of readings for the week: HR policies and practices really can have a significant impact on the organization’s effectiveness. The selection process begins by people filling out applications and some companies even start with background checks. This is the rough beginning and anyone who doesn’t qualify is automatically ruled out. Next is substantive selection where anyone who made it through the first round is subject to written tests and interviews to further see if they qualify. If you make it through this round you are among the best qualified and all you need to do is make it through contingent selection, which is basically drug test and background checks, and then you are offered the position. HR is also responsible for training and performance evaluations. Training can include basic, technical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills along with civility and ethics training. These types of training are needed to get the employee...
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