...Assignment 5 Name: (Your Name) For Dr. Larry Byrd HRM533 Date: (Today’s date) (Title) Innovations of Employee Benefits The succeeding paragraphs will explain how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization. The first way is offer onsite day care facilities. The study suggests that on-site daycare is not only affordable; it is in many cases profitable. Further, the study found that a majority of workers would be willing to contribute to the cost of employer-sponsored daycare whether or not they used the benefit. "There are several kinds of employers who typically have on-site childcare, such as high-tech and healthcare industries, and others who need 24-hour workers, such as airline reservation companies," notes Connelly. "The few studies that have been done on on-site childcare focused on those companies with highly educated workforces. We were particularly interested in another group of companies - those who weren't offering daycare as part of a whole package of family-friendly benefits or because of a corporate philosophy, but rather because they had done an economic analysis of their particular set of workers and had decided that on-site childcare would be economically beneficial to their company." The second way is pet-friendly offices. Not all companies are created equal when it comes to the acceptance of dogs in the workplace. Some readily welcome your best friend while others...
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...Promotion Strategy…………………………………………………….. 10 • Promotion Schedule……………………………………………………. 11 • Promotion Strategy (cont.)……………………………………………… 12 9. Implementation Phase …………………………………………………………. 13 10. Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………. 14 11. Bibliography …………………………………………………………………….. 16 Company Description Kids “R” Us Babysitting Service is a new and local child care service located in Harlingen, TX. After performing a brief survey to the local families in Harlingen, their main concern was trustworthy and reliable child care in the evening hours at their home. Reva Leanna Rodriguez, founder of Kids “R” Us Babysitting Service, knew this was exactly what the families of Harlingen needed. Kids “R” Us offers local babysitting services for children 0-12 years of age, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week in the comfort of your own home. Our employees are trustworthy, reliable, have numerous references, years of experience, and most importantly background checks. Employees are taken through a vigorous screening/training process to ensure the safety of your children comes first. Unlike private hiring of child care, only Kids...
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...Overview Child care feasibility studies provide information critical to evaluating the potential of a new child care center, based on a complete review of the market dynamics, services, customers, competition, and pricing. This information can be used to determine if a child care center is feasible, and if so, what type of center to build, services to offer, and pricing levels. Since no two child care centers are the same, Perspectives Consulting Group, Inc. focuses on identifying and providing relevant information for each center using a customized research process. Our research process includes telephone interviews, contacting various city and state agencies, and researching the child care industry as a whole. Once the information is obtained, Perspectives Consulting Group, Inc. analyzes the information and provides direction for making effective and efficient decisions. Child Care Feasibility Studies Although each child care center under consideration is unique, generally, child care feasibility studies profile five areas: • Market Dynamics - General information on the child care market • Services - What type of child care services are being sought out • Customers - Who currently purchases child care services • Competition - Who provides the current child care services offered • Pricing - What pricing levels are there for child care services Often, the most productive information is found by talking directly to customers and competitors in the market. Customized...
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...Stewart Deborah Tillis June 24, 2013 At my work place we’ve notice that the employees were calling in and missing a lot of work come the spring and summer months we couldn’t figure out what the problem was. So HR decided to take a survey to see what the problem was. Most of the employees were excited to let us know what was going on and more than half of the employees said they was having a hard time with a babysitter and wanted to a three day weekend to spend more time with their families. The company decided to have a daycare center here at work so the employees could drop their kid off and didn’t have to worry about a babysitter. Then company realized it would be cheaper to hire minimum wage help to babysit than it was to have the employees missing all the time. The other half of the employees that wanted a longer weekend the company opted for them to work four ten hour shifts that way they would have a three day weekend every week, we allow the employees to pick what time they would want to start time between 5:30 and 7:30 they would just have to work their ten hours then go home. Made it real convenient when the employees took advantage of the babysitting then that way they wasn’t away from their child or children for long periods. Our turnaround of employees coming to work has been a complete success. We also try to have more lunches and incentives for the employees to be here at work. The feedback on these...
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...The Effects of Nonparental Child Care Eric Mone SOC312 Professor Martha McFarland March 26, 2012 The biggest decision you can ever make as a working parent, the type of child care you will select for your child. The decision on whether to choose a child-care center, family day-care home, or in your own home with a nanny can be a stressful decision. Nonparental care has been a topic of debate that has been around for years. The debate can come from how the child is effected, socially, cognitively, psychological and emotionally, will there be a positive impact or will there be a negative impact on the child's life. There are three different types of childcare. Child-Care center, Family Day-Care Homes, and In-Home care takers which is more commonly known as a nanny. The home may be the child's own home, a relative's (grandparent, aunt, etc.)home, or the home of an unrelated person such as a babysitter or nanny. Home care can include the simultaneous care of many children from many families. Home care is referred to as family date care even though the family may not be the child's own family. A home child care center features one care provider who is always with your child. She might have an assistant, but for the most part the provider is the same day after day. This builds a routine for your child, making the day care process easier on everyone. In a center, the providers in a particular room change frequently, which can lead to inconsistency in the...
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...very common that both parents take on the role of being a breadwinner, seeking a higher education and pursuing their career dreams. This has contributed to the 60 percent of children ages 0-6 and the 50 percent of children ages 6- 14 who receive part time or full time alternative childcare other than from their parents. (Berns, 2010). These statistics have raised questions to researchers as to whether or not children in a day care setting are at any advantages or disadvantages because they spend so much of their time outside of the home. In this paper I will explore the 3 different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have on a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. In many situations, a relative, friend, baby sitter or even a nanny may come into the home to take care of a child (Berns, 2010). This setting is commonly mixed between family members who are available such as grandparents who are no longer working and have the time to care for the children during the day. For parents, this situation is often thought of as a safe and stress free method of childcare because they trust and know the caregiver. One factor to think about would be the amount of education or knowledge the caregiver has about child development, which undoubtedly would be very beneficial. Hiring a professional Nanny from the INA would guarantee “high standards of...
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...that provides supervisors and parents with the control to monitor and encourage hand washing. Considering the large scope of our potential markets, we feel it is imperative to focus our limited resources on a particular geographic region where we can establish demand for our product. After successful market penetration, we will begin implementation into the restaurant and hospital markets. Market Segmentation SAFEassure's first product line addresses the day care market. CHILDassure will first be introduced in the Portland, OR area, before sequential expansion to additional day care markets. There are currently 516 day care facilities in the Portland Metro area. After successful implementation in Portland, we will begin expansion into the greater Northwest. There are 3,414 day care facilities in the greater Northwest. Successful penetration into the day care market will be followed by implementation into the restaurant and hospital markets. There are currently 19,362 restaurants in the Northwest, followed by health care services, which includes 23,108 organizations in the Northwest. Industry Analysis The Industrial and Institutional soap industry, of which we are a part, is quite fragmented, but contains several well known main competitors: Gojo, Kimberley Clark, Dial, Provon, and SoftSoap, as well as generic brands that provide to distributors like Massco and Sysco. The industry is stable and growing; between 1998 and 2003 it grew by an average of 4% annually. Within the...
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...JCA Academy Reduction in number of children Enrollment Director – Sheila John Administrator – Fumi Adeyemi Overview JCA Academy is a child-care center that was open this year. At the beginning the Academy faced the usual challenges a normal child care will face that opened late in a school year. Such challenges are enrollment problem as all children will be placed in a stable child care facility already and only if they are to leave the facility that they will change and look for new child care facility. After a couple of month, the academy became full though not to the required capacity but with sixty children in attendance. Summer came with understand that parents tend to keep their children home with older siblings or with visiting relations and the numbers dropped to forty kids. Now in August, the expectation was to increase the numbers of children to eighty; double of what we had in summer, since school starts back and most of the children that left promised to return. The returning children and new enrollment where to make up the eight children but the academy lost fifteen children and a month after school had started the enrollment is at thirty five. I am the Administrator for JCA Academy and I am among the first employees to be employed by the company in January. Within these eight months I have worked with JCA and witnessed all staff being laid off while other staffs walk out either due to reduced number of hours or low wages. I am prepared to help solve...
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...The Need for Early Education 1 The Need for Early Education The Need for Early Childhood Education Amanda Snyder University of Phoenix The Need for Early Education 2 The Need for Early Childhood Education Early childhood education has many benefits; the most important one teaching young children the necessary learning skills they need to grow socially, and developmentally; children are growing and learning every day so the earlier they start their education the better. The need to provide more children early education is huge, no matter what the family income is. Every child deserves to have a chance to excel in their own future. This paper will address the benefits of early childhood education and the different types of programs available. The positive affect that can happen to children attending early childhood education centers such as head start, pre-k, or a local daycare center are extraordinary. The need for this early education is crucial to children’s futures. “Research shows the benefits to the child include improved readiness to learn, improved early literacy, decreased need for remedial or special education placement, and improved cognitive development. Long term, research shows a stronger likelihood to graduate from high school, improved academic confidence, and more participation in post-secondary education.” (Pennsylvania...
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...When a parent decides to go back to work after having a child, there are some important decisions to make. How long are you planning to work during the day and who will you have watch your child? As a parent, they need to feel comfortable with who is taking care of your child. There is a home-based daycare and center-based daycare available for childcare options. When choosing which childcare option you want, they need to look at the health and safety guidelines each one needs to follow. When using a family home-based childcare it is necessary to be aware that the safety guidelines are more lenient than a center-based childcare. Family childcare sites are not designed to be used as a childcare facility, and, therefore, may not be as safe as a group or center-based care (Wasserman et al. 1998). Safety procedures will not be posted, but general guidelines are followed. Family based home child cares are operated by a parent, who wants to remain home with their own children. Providers' knowledge on safety within their home could be limited to the licensing requirements. These requirements vary from state to state. Center-based childcare must be stricter on following the safety guidelines than home-based childcare. Upon entering a childcare facility, you should be able to see the safety guidelines (e.g. fire drill, exit routes, missing child procedures). Within the center, various checklists should be apparent: diapering check-in, checkout sheets, and hand-washing...
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...Provision for needs to be met in early years settings Provision for needs to be met in Day care settings Personal support, supervision, advice, chiropody, aids and adaptations, meals. Provision for needs to be met in Residential and nursing homes Early years workers are often role models for children so should lead by example e.g. the language they use between each other will be imitated. Research shows that children imitate vocab and accent as well as actual words. Day care centres encourage independence in personal hygiene and the SLT can be applied here e.g. a service user says that they are able to shower themselves today to the care worker and gets praised for this by the care worker. Another service user is watching this and when it is his turn for a shower he says ‘actually I think I can do it myself today’ Certain powerful residents can encourage anti-social behaviour through SLT e.g. a popular male resident flirts with the nurses so other residents start to do it e.g. a resident is bulling another resident and some residents begin to imitate the bully and join in. The way the early years workers eat their lunch is likely to be imitated by the children therefore they should display good table manners i.e. eating with mouth closed, knife and fork in correct hands. At day care centres intellectual stimulation is encouraged. SLT can be applied here e.g. the carers sit down to play chess. Service users see this and start their own chess group. SLT can be...
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...offered to people who are taking care of their chronically ill parents or what is offered to elders who are prisoners in their own home because of their illness or those elders who yearn to be with people who are of their age and understand what they are going through at times. A little while ago I found out about adult day cares. An adult day care is offered to persons who are sixty years or older who can’t be left alone for periods of time. Adult daycares usually don’t take elders who are bed ridden or can’t take care of them selves. Adult day care will accept elders who wear diapers and use catheters, or those who use wheel chairs or walkers as long as they are coherent. Adult day cares staffs certified nursing assistance, and nurses to provide medical care. Some adult day care centers provide transportation if needed. Elders can participate in a number of activities like arts and craft, board games, educational activities and activities that could help them continue to perform their activities of daily living. Adult daycares also sometimes provide transportation to doctors appointments. The very good thing that adult day care provides is time for care givers to run aarons, spend time more personal time with their children or their spouse or just give them time to take a load off. Most adult day cares are open normal business hours. This program could cost up to seventy dollars a day. Medicare and Medicaid don’t cover the cost but some long term care insurances...
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...Daycare: Good or Bad? Hope Plummer English 122: English Composition 2 Instructor Larry Holden 3/02/2014 Daycare: Good or Bad? In this day and age, more women are becoming more active in the workplace which forces them to leave their children in a daycare atmosphere. The first few years of a child's life are detrimental to their development. In general, traditional daycare settings do not have a reputation for being emotionally healthy, so we must ask ourselves the question, is public daycare worth the risks? In this paper, I will provide compelling examples as to why I believe public daycare settings are unhealthy for positive cognitive and social development as well as my suggestions for what type of childcare would be healthier. One of the reasons parents opt to keep their children out of daycare is due to the amount of germs their child will get exposed to on a daily basis. 'Children in day care centers are more likely to catch an infection than kids who do not attend day care. Children who go to day care are often around other kids who may be sick.'(Kaneshiro, 2012) This is partly due to the high number of children in each classroom and caregivers not using the proper sanitary actions necessary with high volumes of children. There are simply too many children to look after. This leaves many classes understaffed. I personally worked at a daycare for a decent amount of time and I can vouch for that fact firsthand. There...
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...Child Care Policies around the World November 30, 2013 Human Growth and Development Multicultural Research Paper Child care policies differ around the world. Only four countries have no national law mandating paid time off for new parents. Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, and the United States do not have laws. The United States does not have a policy of paid leave for child care however, each state has different requirements. Currently the United States falls well short of these practices. They do not require companies to provide any paid leave for new parents. Tennessee employers that have eight or more workers must grant female employees sixteen paid weeks leave for child birth. In California, Hawaii, and New Jersey employees who are pregnant receive partial wage replacement in the form of temporary disability insurance benefits for the weeks they are absent (HR specialty, 2013). European countries have the longest parental leave regulations in the world. In Czech Republic it is standard that mothers stay home for 3 years after a child’s birth. For this entire time, mothers are supported by the state. I can’t imagine getting paid to sit at home and take care of my child. Think of how lucky those parents are getting to see the children grow up doing all the first things in life. Sweden provides working parents with sixteen months paid leave per child at eighty percent pay rate (Karen, Sternheimer, 2010). Parents...
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...http://smallbusiness.chron.com/design-own-daycare-center-floorplans-40707.html Components List the components of your daycare center before you begin laying out your floor plan. This might include a reception desk or area, a coatroom, a storage room, an activity room, a changing area, a classroom, closets, an office, a staff room and one or more bathrooms. Flow Measure your space before you begin designing your floorplan so you can properly place the components you want, where you want them. Consider how you want your floorplan to flow, or how people will move from one space to the next. For example, you might want your reception area up front and a staff room or office in the back. You might want to keep activity rooms next to closets that will contain toys and learning aids, and near bathrooms. Leave extra space in each room to account for drywall, floorboards and other items that might decrease the amount of space you have to work with in a room. This will help you avoid ordering 10 feet of shelving for a room that ends up 9 feet long after it’s finished. Decide if doors will open into a room or outward, which rooms will not have doors, of if you prefer pocket doors that recess into walls, using any daycare code requirements to guide you. Note where lighting, fans, vents, sprinklers, windows and other components of each room will go. Construction Consider in what order you want to begin building your space. If you will need to use heavy equipment in the back of the building...
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