...Travel Agency HR Plan HRM/ 552 August 25, 2014 Functions and Challenges The first challenge would be to make sure that that the whole HR department was on board with the mission and the function of the company. This will help ensure that the company and all the workers will be trained in the appropriate way as that the whole HR department knows that is going on and what their rolls are. The second challenge would be to find someone that would be the correct fit to help in the recruitment of the other 50 employees that the company in needing to hire. This new HR will help lay out the job description for each new hire. Another challenge would be to filter out the best candidates for the job, and properly train then at the job that they need to do. Effects on Senior Management The senior manager if effect by the fact that they are all getting on one page about the companies mission and the functions. Although most of them might know them they may not know how to implicate them or may be doing in wrong or in the wrong way. First the strategy will go from the top down. Meaning that the top management will be trained at first. After they are aware of the company’s policies then they can start training the managers under then and so on. When everyone is properly trained then that would be the best time to hire new people. This way the HR department knows that everyone will be on the same track. Methods for hiring. The best way to get the news out...
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...Agency HR Plan HRM/552 Travel Agency HR Plan In a hectic place like a travel agency, its HR department also has a lot of things to do. HR department’s dilemma arises from the failure to establish a clear picture of its goal and objectives. In line with this, a strategic plan is required to link the HR Department to the organization’s objectives. This paper tackles about the HR department’s functions and challenges in a travel agency. Furthermore, the HR metrics, and planning procedures and also the staffing and selection procedure are pointed out. HR Functions and Challenges The challenging atmosphere of a travel agency gives various challenges for the HR Department. Its HR tasks consist of staffing, payroll, training, developing, and promoting. The challenges are ascertaining rules align with the company’s needs and goals, adjusting newly hires to the organization and facilitate any inconsistency that occurs. With a developing organization, the HR department also has a task on seeking sufficient aspiring employees that will fill the 50 vacancies to meet the company’s needs. Even if the HR department is undermanned which aggravates its problems, it is still expected on the department to find sufficient employees who meet the company’s criteria and qualifications. HR Metrics and Senior Management The objective of HR metrics is to calculate the performance of the HR department, which is directly connected to the HR functions. Each function the HR conducts...
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...Travel Agency HR Plan Eleanor Thomas HRM/552 02/09/2015 Instructor: Rosie Cordova Introduction One may think running an HR department is a very comfortable and years ago it may have been, but in today’s organizations, the HR department has changed in so many ways. In order for the travel agency to achieve their goal of hiring 50 new employees and someone to assist with the recruitment they will have to fine-tune the plan that is in place now. This paper will address the functions and the challenges in the HR department and how it will fulfill the strategy of the department. The paper will speak on the purpose of HR and the metrics, and how it can affect senior managers. The paper will give some information on HR planning process and how it can be applied throughout the company. The HR department can then can determine what plan will work best for the business. They will be used to provide the recruitment strategy and method that will be use to hire the new 50 employees. The paper will provide references that the reader can use to help him or her receive a clearer understanding of the HR department plan for the business. The functions and challenges in the HR department in fulfilling this strategy Before they can satisfy the need of the travel agency, they must have a clear understanding of the function and challenges of the business, in order to hire new employees. The challenges HR department is faced with is trying to recruit and retiring employees. They...
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...Travel Agency HR Plan HRM 552 June 16, 2014 Travel Agency HR Plan The travel agency is rapidly growing, but its HR department does not have a clear mission and function. In developing HR strategies, it is important to refer to the organization’s objectives, as well as a clear mission statement. In order for the company to accomplish its goal of growing the organization, it is imperative that an HR strategic plan is conducted. This paper will go over what is needed in order for the HR department to accomplish the overall strategic business plan. The travel agency is growing and hiring 50 employees can be a challenge. It is important to find candidates with the right type of qualifications and experience to fill specific jobs within the organization. Planning for such growth, travel agency’s Human Resource department needs to orient and train employees, as well as build effective teams within the organization. With such a huge number of new hires, it will be challenging to handle the organizational change especially finding a fit between culture and new employees. Once the HR department has been created, functions such as performance appraisals, compensation and benefits, and conflict management are also carried out, but it would be challenging if the team is understaffed or inexperienced in Human Resource. It is necessary for travel agency to have a system in place to measure level of satisfaction. The purpose of having HR metrics is to know whether or not a function...
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...Strategic HR Approach HRM-552 Professor Sherri Johnson July 21, 2013 Strategic HR Approach An employee of 25 years received cancer treatment and was hospitalized for 2 months. He or she is now asking for additional money to help pay medical bills. In this scenario, AS the HR manager, I would go over the different health benefits that the employee had prior to his or her illness. If the employee had medical insurance, I would refer them to their selected medical provider to have them determine what benefits they are eligible for and also what they would need to do to obtain payment for their bills. I would also look into whether or not the employee had any type of disability insurance that they would have elected during their open enrollment period. This type of insurance is very beneficial in situations where the employee is out of work or has missed time from work due to an illness. If there are no other alternatives available for the employee there is always to ask employees to help donate to the employees cause, if the employee is willing to have this situation made public and be willing to accept donations given from fellow employees. This approach will be the most effective because many times the employer is unable to help the employee with certain situations and this may very well be one of those situations. However, providing as much assistance as possible will make the employee feel that the employer has done everything that they...
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...Recommendation Report Viktor J. Molina HRM/552 December 23, 2013 Carol Jackett Recommendation Report The purpose of this report is to alert the management of the call center for determination of what can be done about the high turnover rate and customer satisfaction about products and information. This will include an analysis of the call center and a new job design to prevent high employee turnover, develop a new training program to educate employees, and understanding the differences between mentoring and executive coaching. Using an effective approach to organizational development based on situations. Finding different approaches to career developments for employees like promotions and benefits. Job Analysis and Design After a review of the calling center, the company is receiving too many complaints from customers about the information services from the call representatives. An analysis of job classification systems should be performed to discover what needs attention along with private interviews to develop a method of design and improve the representative’s performance (Hr-Guide.com, 1998). The HR will design, or rather develop, a new strategy to train its’ employees in a manner that addresses the problem concerning phone etiquette. New training will require executive coaching and mentoring of the proper understanding of what the company expects from its calling center representatives, what duties are to be performed, what leaderships is required, and how...
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...Recommendation Report HRM/552 May 30, 2016 Dr. Linda Ballard Recommendation Report My job here at ABC call-center is a newly acquired position here and my focus is on recommendations and restructuring the call center and the overall performance. In my new position I have many things to review and report on with recommendations for the call-center. It is important for me to review all of the call center aspects and report based on all of the factors that can make the call center as a whole more productive and better. At first glance the call center seems to be doing fine; however, the profit margin seems to be slowing and dwindling each reporting week. In first review of the numbers it would seem that the employees are not doing their job, but the numbers show that they are taking calls, doing work, and producing. There is something missing though, so we need to find out what is missing and how we can fix this in the reporting. In reviewing the employees, Henry is the employee who has been here the longest. He has been here with the company for 2 years. We want to speak with him and get his insight into the issues with the call-center and see what can be done from the employee stance to make the center more productive. Henry met with me today and we were able to get some very informative answers about issues that he feels are directly related to the issues at hand for the employees. Some of the concerns mentioned are: * Lack of proper Training * Employee...
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...Case Study Analysis XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX HRM/552 Organizational Training and Development MBAX1CGU82 Sherri Johnson Workshop 2 May 26, 2014 Case Study Analysis The purpose of this paper is to review and select the case studies in Ch. 2 of Human Resource Management. The author will explain and summarize University of California Regents vs. Bakke case summary, the court’s ruling, how the court’s ruling may possibly impact the organization and for businesses in general, legal precedence the ruling sets for most businesses, and the role the federal enforcement agency plays in ensuring the organization’s compliance to regulation standards. Case Summary The University of California at Davis developed and implemented a special admissions program to increase enrollment of “disadvantaged” applicants, which meant minority students. The number of minority students increased. The special admissions goal was to fill 16 of the 100 positions with “disadvantaged” applicants whom would be selected by a special admissions committee. Allan Bakke, a Caucasian male, was denied admission to the school twice. Bakke brought a suit against the university on the grounds of Civil Rights Act violation and reverse discrimination, alleging preferential treatment of one group (minority or female) over another group opposed to equal opportunity (Byars & Rue, 2008). Court’s ruling The Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision in favor of Allan Bakke and deemed the schools admissions...
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...Recommendation Report: Call Center Nida Labao HRM 552 July 13, 2015 Sheri Johnson Recommendation Report: Call Center A customer service call center is in need of an advisor to help with the organization’s development and training program. The profit margin rate has been low and employee turnover is very high. Also, due to the lack of training, customers are dissatisfied and complaining. As the new Human Resource advisor, a recommendation report has been created for the organizational development and training programs for the call center. The report will consist of the following points: components of job analysis and design, techniques in developing training programs, importance and differences in suing mentoring and executive coaching, an effective approach to organizational development and different approaches to career development. Job Analysis and Design It is essential to develop and implement the appropriate job analysis to resolve the company’s concern about the organizational development and training program. Modifications are needed. By clarifying each component of the job analysis and design, the company can enhance their efforts recruiting qualified employees for the job. Job analysis reveals the necessary task, behaviors, specific abilities and personal characteristics needed to do a job. Job analysis determines what will be done; job design determines how the job is done. Call center representatives responsibilities are to “serve customers by determining...
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...Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated, "Talent Management" Approach to Managing Human Resources 45 They Manage Ethics 45 They Manage Employee Engagement 45 They Measure HR Performance and Results 45 They Use Evidence-Based Human Resource Management They Add Value 46 They Have New Competencies 47 HR Certification 48 46 THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 48 48 The Basic Themes and Features CHAPTER CONTENTS OVERVIEW 49 49...
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...Is Human Resource Management? 30 Why Is Human Resource Management Important to All Managers? Line and Staff Aspects of Human Resource Management 32 Line Managers' Human Resource Duties 33 Human Resource Manager's Duties 33 New Approaches to Organizing HR 35 Cooperative Line and Staff HR Management: An Example Globalization and Competition Trends 37 Indebtedness ("Leverage") and Deregulation Technological Trends 38 Trends in the Nature of Work 39 35 WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 31 THE TRENDS SHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 38 36 • HR AS A PROFIT CENTER: Boosting Customer Service Workforce and Demographic Trends 40 Economic Challenges and Trends 42 40 THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS 43 Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today 43 They Focus More on Strategic, Big Picture Issues 43 • THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT: Building LL.Bean 43 44 They Use New Ways to Provide Transactional Services They Take an Integrated, "Talent Management" Approach to Managing Human Resources 45 They Manage Ethics 45 They Manage Employee Engagement 45 They Measure HR Performance and Results 45 They Use Evidence-Based Human Resource Management They Add Value 46 They Have New Competencies 47 HR Certification 48 46 THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK 48 48 The Basic Themes and Features CHAPTER CONTENTS OVERVIEW 49 49...
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...produced by using high-powered electromagnets. By using magnetic fields, the Maglev train can be levitated above its track, or guideway, and propelled forward. Wheels, contact with the track, and moving parts are eliminated on the Maglev train, allowing the Maglev train to essentially move on air without friction. [pic] FIGURE[1] BASIC PRINCIPLE OF MAGLEV TRAIN Maglev can be used for both low and high speed transportation. The low speed Maglev is used for short distance travel. Birmingham, England used this low speed transportation between the years of 1984 and 1995. However, engineers are more interested in creating the high-speed Maglev vehicles. The higher speed vehicle can travel at speeds of nearly 343mph or 552 km/h. Magnetic Levitation mainly uses two different types of suspension, which are Electromagnetic Suspension and Electrodynamic Suspension. However, a third suspension system (Intuctrack) has recently been developed and is in the research and design phase. These suspension systems are what keep the train levitated off the track. PROPULSION SYSTEM ELECTRODYNAMIC PROPULSION IS THE BASIS OF THE MOVEMENT IN A MAGLEV SYSTEM. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE THAT ELECTROMAGNETIC...
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...In this present study we had a sample of 1350 patients, they were grouped as 780 (57.8) adults & 570 (42.2) geriatrics for further analysis. Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for the characteristics under study - gender, time of arrest, initial rhythm, outcome and Fig 1 & Fig 2 highlights the duration of CPR with the First monitored rhythm. There were 552 adult males with an average age of 43.3years; weight of 72.8kg and 228 female adults with average age of 46.9 years, weight of 71.3kg, 337 geriatric males with an average age of 78.6years; weight of 73.0kg and 233 geriatric females with average age of 76.1years, weight of 71.7kg. 552 adult males had an average total duration of CPR to be 22.5minutes and 228 female adults with 22.3minutes, 337 geriatric males had an average total duration of 23.0 and 233 geriatric females with 22.2 minutes. Table 1. Descriptive Statistics of the patients in ICU S.NO. CHARECTERISTICS ADULTS N(%) = 780 (57.8) GERIATRICS N (%) = 570 (42.2%) 1 Gender Male Female 552 (70.8) 228 (29.2) 337 (59.1) 233 (40.9) 2 Time Of Arrest (Hrs : mts) 00:00 - 05:59 06:00 - 11:59 12:00 - 17:59 18:00 - 23:59 190 (24.4) 210 (26.9) 202 (25.9) 178 (22.8) 145 (25.4) 150 (26.3) 143 (25.1) 132 (23.2) 3 Initial Rhythm Bradycardia Asystole PEA VF VT ...
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...Current Trends in Labor in the United States HRM 552 - Organizational Training & Development October 22, 2012 Current Trends in Labor in the United States Labor unions within the United States have declined in recent years because of increased use of internal arbitration for employee dispute resolutions and a renewed focus on management training in diversity. ** still working on this intro** Current Trends in Union Membership Union trends continue to evolve. Changes such as decreases in membership, increase in diversity of union members, and continual lobbying to increase power. Studies done by (Saad, 2009) provides statistics, which identifies that 66% of Americans still believe in labor union and perceive them to be beneficial to employees. In addition, a poll taken in 2008 shows that 46% of Americans believe that labor union hurt the American economy (Saad, 2009). Trends in labor union also include recruitment of new members. According to (Byars & Rue, 2008) more men are members of union than women, African Americans are more likely to be a union member than the White, Asians, and Latinos. Four out of 10 government employees are members of union. Hawaii, Michigan, North Carolina, and South Carolina have more than 20% union members. Another survey taken by the American General Social Survey from 1978–2008 identifies the number of employees who show the difference in job satisfaction...
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...Strategic HR Approach Rebecca Hardy HRM/552 - Organizational Training and Development 06 April, 2015 Professor Patricia Addesso Strategic HR Approach Human Resource Managers must deal with a wide range of issues on a daily basis. They are charged with the task of determining the strategy that will best resolve the issue for the employee as well as ensuring that the organization is staying in compliance with all governmental regulations. The following scenarios will allow us to take a look at some of the situations that could arise for a Human Resource Manager and determine the best strategy for resolving those issues. Scenario 1: An employee of 25 years received cancer treatment and was hospitalized for 2 months. He or she is now asking for additional money to help pay medical bills. As the human resource manager I would take a look at the health insurance and disability benefits that the employee has available to them. Knowing this information will help me determine the best course of action for the employee. For example, if the employee has a flexible spending account that they have been putting money aside in, this may be an option that is available for helping to cover the medical costs. The employee should have already submitted a claim for any short-term disability benefits that could possibly be available, but if they have not helping them to obtain these benefits for the time period that they were out may help provide additional funds for the team member...
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