...Erin Joest September 26, 2010 Professor Patricia Neu HRM-531 Human Capital Management Performance and Career Management The following will develop a performance and career management programs for the employees that I have selected for my team. I will plan work and set expectations, monitor the performance of my team, reward good performance, and rate the performance of my team in a systematic way. (www.opm.gov) I also feel it is important for my team to individually take ownership of their own career paths with direction and guidance from the company as to what is expected of them. I feel that performance management should be a continual, throughout the year process, not something that is touched on in a once a year meeting with the employee. That way, the company, the team, and the individual know where they stand, what needs to be improved, and what they are excelling at periodic intervals. Feedback will be given to the employee in the form of a narrative essay on a quarterly basis. A narrative essay is defined as, “…in writing, the rater describes an employee’s strengths, weaknesses, and potential.” (Cascio, Chapter 9) I feel that the narrative essay is the simplest, most effective way to deliver feedback. I will also be utilizing the behavioral checklist. I will make a list for all employees so that it is uniform and either I or another manager will easily be able to rate a declarative statement. This will be given to the employee at their individual quarterly meeting...
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...CWRU ESSAYS: 500 Words Each 1. Describe your motivation for pursuing the MBA degree. How does it advance your short-term and long-term goals? How have your academic, career, and life experiences prepared you for this program? What strengths will you bring, and what knowledge and insights are you hoping to develop during the program? If you have any concerns about your application, please address them here. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work” - General Colin Powell. Talking Points: 1st PARARGRAPH: 1st Two Parts of Statement. - Further career 1. Over 24 months ago, I made significant career change, from being an American History Instructor at a military school to a career in medical device sales. 2. Will allow me to move away from Sales and into Corporate side of industry 3. I believe that supplementing my current education and work experience with a top-notch graduate business education will help to eventually elevate me to an executive position within the corporate medical device world. - Academic, career, and life experiences 1. VMI - My experiences at VMI not only prepared me for my career, it prepared me both for life in and outside of my career. - My degree represents not only the acumen in my course of study but in many facets of leadership - VMI forces its graduates to face challenges that I never thought I would come across and in turn, allowed me to...
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...Chapter 12 Human Resource Management True/False Questions WHY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT 1. High-performance work practices are those that lead to high individual and high organizational performance. (True; moderate; p. 323) 2. High-performance work practices involve a commitment by management to improve the knowledge skills and abilities of the organization’s employees, increasing employee motivation, and enhancing the retention of quality employees. (True; easy; p. 323) THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS 3. The human resource management (HRM) process consists of 10 activities necessary for staffing the organization and sustaining high employee performance. (False; moderate; p. 323) 4. A labor union is an organization that represents workers and seeks to protect their interests. (True; easy; p. 323) 5. In the United States, nearly 25 percent of all workers are unionized. (False; moderate; pp. 323-324) 6. Affirmative action programs assure that minorities are given equal opportunities in the workplace. (False; difficult; p. 324) 7. A community fire department can categorically deny employment to a firefighter applicant who is confined to a wheelchair. (True; moderate; p. 324) 8. The United States will experience a shortage of 20 million workers over the next 10 years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (False; moderate; p. 325) HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 9. Human resource planning can be condensed into two...
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...Three Strengths Essay Everyone has personal strengths that they utilize on the daily basis. In life we encounter experiences that help us identify our strengths as individuals. In the past, I’ve had several job experiences that tested what I believe to be are my greatest strengths. I believe each of these strengths speak to my character and will provide me with boundless opportunities in the future. One of my greatest strengths is my ability to be well-organized at all times. Growing up, I always lived in a very well put together household. Observing my moms need to keep the house spick-and-span, I picked up on her tidy habits. Everything in my room has a place which makes it easy to find something when it is needed. Being organized not only makes things appear nice but it also plays a huge role in productivity. It’s astounding how much more work you can get done when you don’t have to waste time scrambling looking for things. As a watch specialist at Fossil, it was my responsibility to re-merchandise all of the watch displays throughout the store. This entailed me having to pull all the previous seasons’ watches from the floor, separating them by style, counting and comparing them to the inventory list, and finally, restocking the new watches for the current floor-set. While these tasks may not have been complicated, it was extremely time consuming. Luckily, being organized is what helped me to accomplish my assignment in a timely fashion. This particular characteristic...
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...How to Say Nothing in 500 Words by Paul Roberts, an essay, discusses common mistakes made by college freshmen in academic writing. During my semester of Intro to Expository Writing, my academic writing has greatly improved. My writing started as “Elementary school was like a fairytale; there was a pretty princess and a handsome prince, but I was an evil villain.” And has grown to “Through her diction, Walls creates various tones in order to convey to her audience that despite obstacles, it is possible to escape from a dysfunctional family in hopes of a brighter future.” Using How to Say Nothing in 500 Words, I will be evaluating my own writing by discussing my strengths, weaknesses, and how I have grown as a writer. Writing narratives have always been a personal struggle for me. Unless I passionately come up with a story, and immediately write it on paper, my narratives are bland. It is hard to write personal life-changing stories when I have a deadline. One weakness of mine is using colorful words. For example, a sentence from my personal narrative was written as “It was magnificent with its stained green carpet and plenty of wooden bookshelves stocked with colorful books.” In retrospect, this is how it could have been written, “The spacious library had wooden bookshelves stuffed with leather-bound books, which rested on gritty emerald carpet.”...
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...Strengths Essay My name is Destiny Lind. I possess many strengths that can be very valuable to any organization. I will be discussing five strengths that can suit your organization and make me an excellent candidate for the position with your company. I am dependable, and efficient in completing tasks. I abide by the instructions given and attentive to details. I also am a team player that will make sure all task are resolved and completed. I am dependable with tasks. I maintain a high attendance rate, in both my professional and scholar, environments. When a task must be completed, there is no time to miss any available opportunity to work towards completion. This in turn makes dependability a valuable strength. While attending my last semester to obtain my Associates, I maintained 19 credit hours. In these courses I developed a business plan, a sales presentation, and a marketing portfolio. During this semester I also suffered a miscarriage, however I made sure I came to class in order to complete my tasks at hand. Efficiency plays an important role in assuming a leadership role. I maintain a level of efficiency that will help lead the team towards completion. In the process of maintaining efficiency, I also help the team to eliminate any possibility for error that may need to be corrected upon completion. Maintaining efficiency can also be a time saver. If time is saved daily through efficiency, then the team can be more productive and set higher goals. Upon starting...
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...Where do I see myself in 5-7 years? This question sound to be easy to answer but when it come to write an essay on it, So there I struggle as its very difficult to write your future goals and what you would like to be in five to seven years? If someone have asked during my childhood what would you be, I would said A Doctor, if some asked me during my teenage, I would have said A Banker, as these changes with the time because of the people who I meet and how they influence my decision making. This is difficult to answer that what would you be in future as the outcome of the present steps can be unpredictable. But taking some time to analyzing my strength and weakness, I found out that my future goals and my career can be build on this two quality of mine. I found out that my strength is convincing people, sales and marketing strategy, number crunching, training and leading people, creative thinking whereas my weaknesses are that I am aggressive in my opinion, impatient and need total over my team. Taking this into consideration I found myself into the field of consumer service or retail sector. I always have a dream to be an entrepreneur and start my own restaurant chain in my home country India. My restaurant chain would specifically target the youth and also dedicated to consumer service and satisfaction. In India it is very difficult to find such kind of restaurants. So to purse my dream I would need a proper experience and exposure to such kind of restaurant chain...
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... my work will be referred to the Academic Registrar/ or the Board of Examiners, which may result in me being expelled from the program. Signed: _______________________ Date Submitted: __23/12/2014_____________ Acknowledgment of Assignment Receipt (Students are required to fill up this acknowledgment slip upon submission of assignments) Student Name: _______________________Student Number: ___________________________ Program / Intake: _________________________ Module: _________________________________ o Pre-course / o Main Assignment Lecturer: ________________________________ Received by: __________________________ National University of Ireland, Dublin Master of Science (MGT) Intake 33 Module: Organisational Behaviour Essay Title: Assignment 1 Submitted by: Muhammad Taufik Bin Supan Student Number: 14204786 Lecturer: Dr KC Chan Submission Date: 23rd December 2014 Word Count: 1625 Confirmation Certificate Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Library Plagiarism Quiz. Student Name: Muhammad Taufik Bin Supan Student Number: 14204786 Date: 18th December 2014 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT (signature)……………………… HAS COMPLETED THE PLAGIARISM QUIZ Remember that the confirmation certificate is a statement by you that you...
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...Compensation Benchmarking & Wage Differentials Benchmarking Benchmarking is a skill that every human resource practitioner involved in the compensation process should perform efficiently and correctly. Accurate benchmarking is the foundation of appropriate salary assessments and market comparisons. If one benches internal positions incorrectly it may result in selecting the wrong market salary data and setting an inappropriate salary which in turn creates employee dissatisfaction and a higher turn over rate. Clearly, this is a skill that impacts the organization. * The definition of benchmarking for salary survey purposes is “matching an internal job to an external job of similar content”. The goal is to match each job being performed in your company to the survey benchmark job that most closely resembles the essential functions of that job. Once this is accomplished one can then review the market salary data to determine market rates. Steps in Compensation Benchmarking * Identify compensation goals and objectives Specify what is to be accomplished through the company’s compensation system (e.g., retain high-performing employees, reward individuals who add significant value, support and encourage flight crew team performance), and then set objectives accordingly. * Assess desired compensation mix Determine the proportional relationship between base salary, short-term incentives and long-term incentives. The mix reflects how much “risk” the company is willing...
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...company’s product or brand on a global scale. Many fashions of advertising use this marketing such as television, publications, Internet and so on. An International Marketing strategy is one part of a global strategy. If an international marketing is correct, it will have many benefits for a company. Following is four benefits: Make more effective and profitable about the products. You change the produces and services to learn more. The more you learn, the faster you learn, the more effective can become at the releasing products and services. And then it is easy for the company to enter into the international marketing. This essay is an example of a student's work Disclaimer This essay has been submitted to us by a student in order to help you with your studies. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. Have stronger competitive advantage More and more competition will appear in the international marketing. So the company should be ready at any time to face to face to the competition. After that, they will have the ability to fit the situation in the international marketing. Improve customers conscious Customers can learn about the products and services through the Internet. Every products or services have the same design and price. That can improve customers’ conscious and expand the international market. Reduce the cost and improve savings By focusing on...
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...This assignment shall be analysing the case study on Michelin .An exploration of Michelin's strengths and weaknesses both internally and externally, and most importantly identifying the management challenges faced by Michelin. This assignment shall thoroughly address how the challenges can be solved using the principles that were mastered during the study of Strategic Management. To find the strengths of Michelin, one will be looking at what the company is good at and also what they are doing well at. According to the case study ,the weaknesses are what Michelin is poor at and those things they need to improve on for Michelin to be successful and to grow as a company. So therefore their weakness are their major management challenges. By being able to look at the strengths and weaknesses of Michelin both internally and externally one can start to plan for Michelin in the future and to be able to look at what Michelin is going not so well and find steps to sort these problems out, which is what this essay will address. Some of Michelin's internal strength is that at the present they have three lines of production to follow. They produce the Michelin guide, and road maps, although their main line of production is their tyres .So the fact that Michelin is in more than one line of production gives them the competitive edge over their competitors. Michelin is committed to safety and is committed to keeping up with research and development in all their production and products...
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...Techniques in Performance Appraisal Encourage Discussion Research studies show that employees are likely to feel more satisfied with their appraisal result if they have the chance to talk freely and discuss their performance. It is also more likely that such employees will be better able to meet future performance goals. Employees are also more likely to feel that the appraisal process is fair if they are given a chance to talk about their performance. This is especially so when they are permitted to challenge and appeal against their evaluation. Constructive Intention It is very important that employees recognize that negative appraisal feedback is provided with a constructive intention, i.e., to help them overcome present difficulties and to improve their future performance. Employees will be less anxious about criticism, and more likely to find it useful, when the belief is that the appraiser's intentions are helpful and constructive. In contrast, other studies have reported that "destructive criticism" - which is vague, ill- informed, unfair or harshly presented - will lead to problems such as anger, resentment, tension and workplace conflict, as well as increased resistance to improvement, denial of problems, and poorer performance. Set Performance Goals It has been shown in numerous studies that goal-setting is an important element in employee motivation. Goals can stimulate employee effort, focus attention, increase persistence, and encourage...
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...说明 1. 本资料来源于英文版《How to get into the top MBA programs》,作者为Don Martin. 2. 第一部分为115份真实的ESSAY, 分别来自于17个不同背景的申请人. 3. 第二部分为对21个常见ESSAY问题的分析，包括问题的关键，常见错误，正确的回答方式. 个人认为这一部分比真实的ESSAY更重要. 4. 由于文件采用扫描和文字识别方法输入, 可能存在一些错误. 5. 此文件仅供CHASEDREAM网友参考使用, 请尊重原书版权, 切勿用于商业用途. Xiearmyxiearmy 零四岁末于美国穷乡僻壤 Chapter I Application Essay Examples INTRODUCTION This appendix contains 115 actual essays written, by 17 different applicants, for leading MBA programs. They address dozens of different essay topics. The applicants and their essays have been selected to give you the widest possible range of materials from which to profit. The first four applicants all applied to the University of Chicago. They were chosen by Chicago’s admissions director, Don Martin, according to my desire that they be from four very different people and of average quality for those admitted. In other words, these essays will show you exactly what you are competing against. They are of perfectly acceptable quality, but they should not discourage you. If you follow the lessons of this book you should be able to surpass each of these efforts. The second set of three applicants—Melissa, Doreen, and Carol—is taken from Columbia University’s files. Columbia’s admissions director, Linda Meehan, was asked to supply several applications, again from people of widely differing backgrounds, but this time of superior quality. I think that this group’s applications...
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...Harvard Business School Newspaper ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN NEW YORK 65 SUCCESSFUL HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL APPLICATION ESSAYS, SECOND EDITION. Copyright © 2009 byThe Harbus News Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For-information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.stmartins.com Library of Congress Cataloging...in..Publication Data 65 successful Harvard Business -School application essays : with analysis by the staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School newspaper / Lauren Sullivan and the staff of The Harbus.-2nd ed. p.em. ISBN 978...0..312...55007...3 1. Business schools-United States-Admission. 2. Exposition (Rhetoric) 3. Essay-Authorship. 4. Business writing. 5. Harvard Business School. 1. Sullivan, Lauren. II. Harbus. III. Title: Sixty...five successful Harvard Business School application essays. HF1131.A1352009 808'.06665-dc22 2009012531 First Edition: August 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction ix xi I. Defining Moment Stacie Hogya Anonymous Anonymous David La Fiura Anonymous Avin Bansal Anonymous Brad Finkbeiner Anonymous 4 7 10 13 17 20 23 26 29 ii. UndergradUate experience John Coleman Maxwell Anderson Lavanya Anantharman Rosita Najmi Faye Iosotaluno Anonymous Rohan Nirody v 37 40 43 46 49 52 55 Contents III. Career aspirations Jason Kreuziger Anonymous James Reinhart Jemine Rewane Anonymous Apar Kothari Anonymous Anonymous Stephen...
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...Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay Generally speaking, there are two types of application essays for graduate school: the statement of purpose (SOP) and the personal statement. (Refer to FAQs to find out how the two types are different.) Both types let you convince the admissions committee that you are a good fit for the program and can contribute to the department. Although different graduate schools may ask you to answer different prompts, most ask that you write no more than a two-page application essay. The application essay is difficult to write because you must pitch your candidacy to a few department faculty members who read through hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of other essays. In this handout, you will learn how to show these busy readers that you will contribute meaningfully to the university and their department. 1. Relate your past and present experiences to the future. In their application essays, many applicants make the mistake of underemphasizing the future. But it’s important that you show how your past experiences have informed your present work, and how your present work can be extended to the future or raise new research questions. Admissions committees assess many qualified applicants based on whether their research will reflect positively on the university and their department. Committees will think your past and present work is relevant only if it relates directly to your plans for the future. If you don’t know exactly where your current...
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