...Job Description Paper BUS 303: Human Resource Management Professor Anwar Chowdhury 20 October 2014 Job Description Paper The society we have entered into requires job descriptions to provide a base for the applicant to become interested and understand they are qualified for the position in which the organization is seeking to fill. The key for human resources (HR), conduct, reflect, and analysis the needs of the organization, designing the right job description and applying the correct assessment, eventually hiring the best candidate. In an effort to find the best candidate, first we must attract them through the job announcement, next, screen the candidates, and finally select the best candidate.(Youssef, 2012) In this paper, I will discuss the tasks, tools and technology, knowledge, skills and abilities, educational requirements, and finish with two assessment methods and why they appropriate to recruiting qualified candidates. A recent position opened in my company for a Surface Maintenance Mechanic, this will be the position I use to describe the different areas of concern for this paper. The tasks provide a clear understanding of where the position will work along with specific and direct points of interest without going into great detail. In this particular case, This position will be located at the Combined Surface Maintenance Shop and the purpose of the position will be “to perform maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, inspection, and/or overhaul...
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...employees are performing? Before industrial mechanics, companies would spend up to 40% on pay and benefits for employees. With technology doing a majority of the manual labor, base pay costs and employment has declined dramatically. Now less than 20% of the workforce is doing manufacturing jobs. Now most of the workforce is in service related jobs. In contrast to manufacturing, the cost of labor compensation can be as high as 80% of revenue. Also, firms are reducing the employment ranks while increasing the responsibilities of the remaining staff. 2. Discuss what is meant by the term exempt employee and the various exemption criteria established for identifying this group of workers. An exempt employee is an employee who, because of his/her position duties, is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). "With few exceptions, to be exempt an employee must, be paid at least $23,600 per year and be paid on a salary basis, and also perform exempt job duties. "An employee who meets the salary level tests and also the salary basis tests is exempt only if he or she performs exempt job duties. These FLSA exemptions are limited to employees who perform relatively high-level work. Whether the duties of a particular job qualify as exempt depends on what they are. Job titles or position descriptions are of limited usefulness in this determination. The actual job tasks must be evaluated, along with how the particular job tasks go along with the employer's overall...
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...CANDIDATES There are a lot of methods, how to attract the good/right candidates, for example, develop a proper job description, select the interweaving team properly, prepare fully for the interview, searching in the internet, enhance your brand etc. Unfortunately, as many hiring managers have realized, there simply is not enough time to adequately sort through the plethora of candidates who are available. Let me go deeper in job descriptions. Job description is not just a piece of paper that sits in an employee’s file. It is living document that will help you hire, manage, encourage, review, and, if necessary, discipline or terminate employees. In some companies, job descriptions are dry, outdated documents whose main purpose seems to be taking up space in a filing cabinet. The job description is the basis of your search for new hire. By clearly defining the job up front in writing, and using document to make sure candidates know what the job entails, you will have already established and communicate the requirements for success. You can use the job description as an interview tool to help you find best person for the position. A well-written and frequently updated job description will useful throughout an employee’s tenure with your company, and throughout the “life” of that job. As it is written in Matgie Mader-Clark book “The Job Description Handbook” job description can be used in several ways: * A hiring document * A tool for measuring and managing performance ...
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... | | | | | | | |Job |4 | | |Analysis | | | |Lecture Outline | | | |Strategic Overview |In Brief: In this chapter, Dessler explains the uses of | | |The Nature of Job Analysis |job analysis information and carefully describes the | | |Uses of Job Analysis Information |methods of conducting a job analysis. The tasks of | | |Steps in Job Analysis |writing job descriptions and job specifications are also | | |Methods of Collecting Job Analysis Information |outlined. Finally, he discusses the trends of enlarging | | |The Interview |and...
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...Kelsey M. Vella 29/05/2015 Human Resource Planning and Management “Great Vision Without Great People Is Irrelevant.” -Jim Collins, Good To Great Kelsey M. Vella 29/05/2015 Table of Contents 2.1 The Need for Human Resources Planning within Organisations 3 Job innovation and change in skills requirements 3 Employment protection legislation 3 Technological changes 3 Scope and variety of markets 3 Information Communication Technology (ICT) 4 Labour costs 4 The staff replacement approach 4 Short term human resource strategy 5 Vision-driven Human Resource Development 5 Choosing the right approach 5 2.2 The main processes involved in HR Planning 6 Forecasting Demand 6 Forecasting Supply 7 Closing the Gap between demand and supply 8 2.3 Recruitment and Selection Process – Gasan & Mediterranean Bank 9 Recruitment Process 9 Selection Process 10 2.4 The effectiveness of the recruitment and selection techniques used within organisations 11 3.1 Motivational theories and reward 15 3.2 Job Evaluation – Evaluation of the Process 18 1. Compensable factors 18 2. Job description and person specification 18 3. Evaluation of the jobs 18 Advantages of Job Evaluation 19 Disadvantages of Job Evaluation 19 Determining Pay 20 3.3 The effectiveness of reward systems 21 Wage 21 Salaries 21 Team Based Pay 22 Non-Cash Incentives 22 3.4 Methods used in monitoring employees’ performance 23 Reporting Methods 23 Overall Assessment 24 Guided Assessment...
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...Resourcing Talent – Talent Planning in an Organisation 1. Four factors that affect an organisations approach to attracting talent are: * Expansion – A company that keeps expanding attracts a lot of new talent who want job security and promotion prospects. * Development opportunities – A company who offer learning and development opportunities will attract a lot of talent who want to learn new skills to better their career. Without training prospects a lot of talent will be lost. * Salary – A company with lower levels of salary wouldn’t attract as much talent as higher levels of pay. Workers want their hard work to reflect in their wages. * Benefits packages – A company with good benefits package also attracts talent. People want to see what the company offers to safeguard and assist their employees. 2. Three organisation benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce are: * A varied array of employees means different levels of skills and knowledge, enabling each sector of an organisation to excel. * A diverse workforce means people possess different attitudes and values whether these values are derived from race, religion or even nationality. When all brought together can benefit the company when dealing with a wide range of people and even internationally. * Creativity and productivity would increase. People with different backgrounds have different ways of thinking. Enabling different views and ideas to emerge. 3....
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...employers are currently facing is finding excellent and talented employees to work for their companies. For one, resume falsifications has become notoriously rampant in the employment world. Moreover, it is now hard to find people with integrity, people whom you can have absolute trust in. An equally difficult task is to keep the bad kinds of employees out of your company. You may be very cautious with your hiring process but you will still sometimes end up with employees that give you nothing but bouts of headaches which creates employee discontent and morale issues. To help you attract and retain good employees and repel bad ones, the organization should have in place the following characteristics: a. solid reputation; b. provide clear job objectives; c. present challenges and learning opportunities; d. create a culture of accountability; e. offer attractive compensation; and f. create a culture of diversity and inclusion. Solid Reputation One of the best ways to attract superior employees is to be a top company. Needless to say, high achievers want to work for companies that have excellent reputation, exemplary management and top of the line products and services. “The global war...
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...Summer Training Project Report ON Recruitment And Selection Submitted in Partial fulfillment of requirement of award of MBA degree of GGSIPU, New Delhi Submitted By: priyanka 015 2010-2012 Northern India Engineering College (Affiliated to GGSIPU) FC-26, Shastri Park, Delhi-110053 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Connection, dedication and application are necessary but not sufficient to achieve any goal. These must be awarded by guidance. This is to express my earnest gratitude & extreme joy on being bestowed with an opportunity to work in an organization as respected and reputed as BHL, Noida. It is impossible to thank personally all the people who have helped me in completion of this informative project, but it would avail this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and indebtedness to the following people:- I am indebted to Mr. Mohan Kumar Sharma (Officer – Group HR, BAJAJ HINDUSTHAN LIMITED) who gave me the opportunity to work with the organization. I am extremely grateful to my guide and project coordinator Mr. Mohan Kumar Sharma (officer– HR) & Mr. Shankar Singh (Sr.Officer –HR) who removed every stumbling block in my endeavor to complete my project successfully. They proved to be a constant...
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...need to hire new employees. Selecting the wrong person could be a costly mistake when considering the amount of money involved in recruiting and training new employees. According to (Wienclaw, 2010), “the tools used to select new employees need to be demonstrably related to the job and must help the organization select those employees with the appropriate knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics necessary for job success” (p. 1). To identify the recruitment and selection methods at Wal-Mart, a job description for a Senior Manager in Marketing-Promotions was selected from their website. This particular job description was selected because it includes position details, job duties, performance standards and job factors. In this paper, a concept map and associated discussion summarize the steps of the recruiting and selection process using the chosen job description. Dialogue surrounding performance standards and rationale for included components are offered as well. The recruitment process begins when Wal-Mart recognizes a human resource need within the company that is not being met by current employees. Once the position is determined to be necessary, upper management is able to conduct a job analysis...
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...Introduction: Dessler(2008) claimed that, developing an organizational structure results in jobs that have to be staffed. Job analysis is a procedure through which we find out what the job entails and what kind of qualities a person should have to be hired by an organization. Human resource is a very important asset for any organization and jab analysis and position description is the crown jewel of all. We have analyzed what type of information is included in job description and person specification in order to create job analysis and position description of an HRM lecturer in North South University, a medicine doctor of Square Hospitals and a financial officer of BRAC Bank ltd. We tried to show how that is done through this project report. Over view of the organizations: It was a privilege for us to conduct a research and prepare a term paper on these three reputed organization in Bangladesh. Here is a brief overview of all the three institutions. i. North South University (North South University, n.d.) North South University (NSU), the first private university in Bangladesh, was established in 1992 with the goals of providing high quality higher education, developing human resources, and providing well paying jobs to highly qualified faculty members with foreign degrees. Another key objective was to provide the training and opportunity to students and graduates for higher study abroad, either with a recognized degree or with transfer credits from NSU. This institution...
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...task to do. There are many challenges that need to be addressed such as advertising for a replacement, interviewing many candidates, reviewing their qualifications, hiring and training. A thorough job analysis is needed to complete the process along with information about the different theories of human resources. It will be discussed in this research project, the measures used to hire, interview, train, and create a title for the replacement employee. This discussion will include the offering salary for the replacement, hiring requirements, training tools used, what is expected of the replacement and a performance evaluation to score the new employee. I do have an advantage in my favor from previously training new hires in the same department as me. Although I was not part of the hiring staff, knowing what was needed from the replacement having done the job for 5 years gave me a comfortable advantage. To begin the search for a replacement, a description is needed to clarify to the candidates who and what is needed to fill the position. Job descriptions are written statements that describe the duties, responsibilities, required qualifications, and reporting relationships of a particular job. Employee job descriptions are based on objective information obtained through job analysis, an understanding of the competencies and skills required to accomplish needed tasks, and the needs of the organization to produce work...
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...once the two facilities were combined. The management of North Broward Hospital District and Florida Memorial Hospital identified several key areas that will be impacted during the merger. As a middle manager at North Broward Hospital District, my job is to ensure that the combined staff will work together without taking on a competitive stance. Taking into consideration the key areas that will be impacted in the merger, new hierarchies and job descriptions will need to be made for many of the employees. This essay will discuss the transition of the employees and the impact the merger will have on the culture of the new combined organization and will address how systems will be developed as the new organization takes shape. Impact of Sale on the Culture of the Organization The culture and working conditions for the employees of both organizations will be impacted during and after the merger. Each organization currently has its own way of doing business. Employees are used to the way their organization currently works. As the two organizations merge employees and management will possibly need to get used to a new set of policies and procedures as well as new expectations and a new order of business. The job descriptions and roles of many of the employees will change. Many of the employees of Florida Memorial Hospital will now be managed by staff members from North Broward Hospital District and, due to the fact that Florida Memorial has inpatient and outpatient services...
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...What is burnout? Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest or motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place. Burnout reduces your productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling increasingly helpless, hopeless, cynical, and resentful. Eventually, you may feel like you have nothing more to give. Most of us have days when we feel bored, overloaded, or unappreciated; when the dozen balls we keep in the air aren’t noticed, let alone rewarded; when dragging ourselves out of bed requires the determination of Hercules. If you feel like this most of the time, however, you may be flirting with burnout. You may be on the road to burnout if: Every day is a bad day. Caring about your work or home life seems like a total waste of energy. You’re exhausted all the time. The majority of your day is spent on tasks you find either mind-numbingly dull or overwhelming. You feel like nothing you do makes a difference or is appreciated. The negative effects of burnout spill over into every area of life—including your home and social life. Burnout can also cause long-term changes to your body that make you vulnerable to illnesses like colds and flu. Because of its many consequences, it’s important to deal with burnout right away. Dealing with Burnout: The "Three...
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... Upon the review the key issues several things come to mind. As educators we are presented with some of the same or similar challenges. Although we are unionized, at the local and federal levels, our duties are governed by the job classifications set forth by the Department of Defense Education Agency (DODEA. Based upon our educational level, i.e. BA,BS,MS, D r. and certifications our pay rates are established and pay increases are scheduled in accordance to your length of service and additional training completed beyond your degree level. There are also pay increases set forth by the U>S> Government. Fringe benefits such as Living Quarters Allowance, logistic and travel agreement are supported and negotiated by our union. If an employee is disgruntled, we have a grievance process in place to ensure that our legal rights are not being violated. The union also ensures that occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) standards are being met. Teachers do not qualify for over time because they are salaried employees but educators can apply for extra-curricular positions such as sports coaching, homework clubs, language clubs, after school detention supervisor, drama clubs and even chair various committees, just to name a few. These extra duty jobs are paid positions. One key issues, that appears to be an impediment to the success of Treadway Company, is the selection process for line foreman. I think that more emphasis should be on the internal employees. The employees should...
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...source of cheer and encouragement. We are deeply indebted to the authors whose book we have consulted in preparing this treatise. Finally we would like to add a few more words saying that this plan is prepared by novice and naturally there could be unwilling errors and omission which are exclusively ours. December, 2012 Mr. Latiful Khabir Course instructor, Introduction to Human Resource Management (HRM301) Independents University, Bangladesh Subject: Submission of Human Resource Management case study report Sir, We are extremely glad to submit the Human Resource Management case study report that you have assigned us to do as a part of this course. Our job was to prepare a Human Resource Management case study report It was impossible to complete the report without your sincere help, so we are very grateful to you, and also thankful to our kind primary sources. We have a lot of outstanding and valuable knowledge in doing this report which will help us to be successful in future....
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