...According to Ployhart and Holtz (2008), “recruitment and selection are essential mechanisms for increasing diversity” (p. 153), therefore, in order to effectively increase and target diversity, organizations must develop or adapt new strategies of recruiting to avoid adverse impact. The purpose of this paper is to review literature that offers strategic remedies for organizations to consider in developing and maintaining their workforce diversity programs. Workforce Diversity and Diversity Management Practices Diversity has been defined in many ways and can have multiple meanings depending upon the objective for which it is sought to be defined. For the purposes of this paper, workforce diversity is defined as policies and practices that seek to include people within a workforce who are considered to be, in some way, different from those in the general population (McInnes, 1999). Knouse (2008) defines diversity management as the ability to maximize the advantages of organizational member diversity and minimize the problems. One can make the case for diversity several ways (Cox, 1993). It is the legal thing to do; it is the moral thing to do; and it is the right business practice to follow. In other words, diversity management makes good business sense. This latter statement is known as the business case for diversity – diversity management increases profits by providing a competitive edge to the firm (Karsten, 2006). (Knouse, 2008, p. 17). Ng and Sears (2010) clarified...
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... Professor TANGLEWOOD CASE STUDY 3 Introduction Tanglewood has high recruiting trends in entry level positions due to a high rate of turnover that is currently over 50%. Tanglewood’s current recruiting methods vary from one region to the next. By assessing these various methods and comparing their overall effectiveness, I have a good opportunity to improve the recruiting process, thus making the most effective use of operations in this organization. I will review the target demographics, and look into the methodology of each region’s present recruitment styles. The desire to create a unified recruiting process will be reviewed and evaluated, with an ultimate goal of devising a functional, efficient and profitable recruiting service for this organization. 1. Recruiting Guide for Director of Claims Position: Store Associate Reports to: Store Manager/Department Manager/Shift leader Qualifications: High School Diploma, some college preferred, 1 year experience in retail, Interpersonal skills must be able to articulate well. Relevant Labor Market: North Western Region, Washington and Oregon Timeline: Continuous Activities to undertake to source well-qualified candidates: Request employee referrals Local Newspaper advertising Contact staffing agencies Job Fairs Staff Members Involved: Store managers HR recruiting mangers Department managers Budget: $2,500.00-4,500...
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...bonus 3.4 Recruitment and Selection Process Recruiting is the process of searching the potential job candidates in order to fill up the vacant position of the organization and selection is the process of choosing the best candidate among the available candidates. The candidates who are successfully perform the job. Unilever Bangladesh follows both the internal and external sources of recruitment. In case of internal source they mainly follow – promotion, transfer and job rotation and in case of external source they follow – advertisement, campus recruitment and other organizations. In case of recruitment and selection Unilever Bangladesh considers the following process: Need assessment Unilever Bangladesh take need assessment to identify in which sector, it is needed to recruit the employee for achieving their target and goals. In their assessment they have to realize that they need human resource (HR) in the following situation- vacancy in existing post(s), market expansion, increase in production capacity, launching new product, introducing new system. Checking the recruiting options Internal Current employees are a major source of recruits the employees. Internal source are included- promotion, transfer, job rotations. External When job opening can not be filled internally, the HRD must look outside organization for expert employees. External source included- advertisement, campus recruiting and other organizations. Usually Unilever Bangladesh considers...
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...Tanglewood Case Study 2 Ratings: (0)|Views: 6|Likes: 0 Published by Megan Purdy Tanglewood Case Study 2 See more Tanglewood Case Study 2 Page 1 Tanglewood Case Study 2Megan PurdyHRM 594Keller Graduate School of Managementr! CardenMay 2"# 2$%4 Tanglewood Case Study 2 Page 2 Recru&tment Gu&dePos&t&on' Store Associate Re(orts To' Shift Leader and Department Manager )ual&f&cat&ons' Prefer to have some ac!ground in customer service or retail" no specific list of minimal educational ac!ground re#uired Rele*ant +a,or Mar-et' Pacific $orthwest% ®on and 'ashington T&mel&ne' This is a continuous recruiting effort with no set timeline% however the ideal process from initial contact with the applicant to the final hiring decision would ideally e within a month(s time) .ct&*&t&es to underta-e to source well /ual&f&ed cand&dates' *se of media" such as regional newspaper advertisements" online +o postings on oth pulic wesites as well as the company wesite" !ios!s in the stores" +o services groups and staffing agencies" Staff Mem,ers 0n*ol*ed' ,- -ecruiting Manager" Assistant Store Manager" Department Manager 1udget' .etween /1000 and /000 Tanglewood Case Study 2 Page n loo!ing to the est targets or applicants for the position of store associate" it would e ideal to recruit individuals with some prior ac!ground" !nowledge or e3perience in the customer service or retail fields) &ne of the ig complaints from our management...
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...HR Strategy Evaluation: Case Study of Nucor Corporation Executive Summary: Human resource management in the alignment of business strategy is essential to achieve firm’s goals and objectives. Nucor is a US based steel manufacturer and known to its innovation with low cost and high productivity. Nucor’s success is explained through its effective HR strategies of lean management structure, teamwork, less formalization, recruiting and reward. All sixteen operating facilities of Nucor work independently with only four management levels that help to achieve its business strategy of low cost and innovation. Rewards are paid based on employee productivity. However, at Nucor productivity targets are achievable and less than industry averages. Moreover, rewards are also awarded onto team performances that ranges from 8 members to 20 members. This stimulate team member to assist each other to achieve such goals. There is no job description and no performance appraisal as Coblin HR manager thinks that it is wastage of time. He also attributed absence of job description to the changing nature of work at Nucor. At Nucor employees are selected primarily on the basis of ability to work with coworkers with less supervision. In short Nucor HR strategies of lean management, decentralization, rewards and less formalization assist to achieve its business strategies of low cost, innovation, productivity and high performances. However, criticisms are also made to some of Coblin’s strategies....
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...Consulting Project Recruiting Qualified Candidates Tammy Miller Sullivan University HRL 621 Introduction Recruiting is the most important and crucial role of any human resource professional today including staffing agencies. Staffing and recruiting good qualified candidates is getting tougher and tougher these days. When I spoke with Mrs. Sinkhorn with Nesco Resource, she stated that finding good employees is one of their biggest issues these days. Employees working for staffing agencies are in a unique position compared to clients they work for. This is due to they can work this client of the staffing agency and if they do not like the job or have an issue they have choices such as asking the agency to fine them something else. I have researched some recruiting options that I think would help assist Nesco in their recruiting process. Recruitment What is recruiting or recruitment? It is the act of getting of recruits (employees). Recruiting good qualified talent is a challenge. It also described the process that a company uses to find the qualified candidate to fill the positions within their company. Even with today’s recession, it is difficult to fill certain types of jobs which make the jobs of the recruiters extremely hard. Human Resources are always a challenge because of the job itself due to having to deal with human beings. People are not predictable and finding that right person for the first job at the right time is...
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...Resources Staffing Services Director HR Recruiting Manager HR Selection Manager Potential peers Budget: $2,000 - $6,000 Targets Promotion from within is a very important aspect of Tanglewood. All employees start out as store associates. Therefore, Tanglewood must attract the top talent at the store associate level so they can promote them to higher level positions. The best candidates for Tanglewood to target are high school seniors and college freshman. This is because then Tanglewood will be able to train and develop the talents which they wish these individuals to posses. This will also promote brand loyalty because the employees will feel a sense of loyalty to the company if the company has supported them as they received their education. Tanglewood currently uses five different types of recruitment strategies. The following paragraphs will discuss the different methods and who those methods are targeting. Tanglewood uses different media outlets to advertise their open positions. They use those outlets such as print, radio, and television coupled with individuals filling out a standardized job application. Tanglewood has also placed Kiosks in their store for candidates to fill out the standardized application. These media outlets and Kiosks are seen by a variety of different people in a variety of different locations. Tanglewood also uses referrals as a form of recruiting. Referrals are a more targeted approach to recruiting as opposed to media. Employees are cautious...
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...Assignment Week 4 Tanglewood Case 3 Keller Graduate School HR 594 Strategic Staffing The objective is to address the needs and the concerns of the organization to develop an effective method to recruiting. This method must be beneficial economically, as well as, productive in recruiting the best possible talent needed. A strategy must be developed along with a guide that will be shared by all locations and at all levels. In creating this method, different forms of recruiting will be employed to ensure that the target audience is reached effectively. Tanglewood has high turnover. This is a major concern for management. There is time, and money invested in to hire these employees. Training and maintaining is just as costly if there is a 50% chance of the employee leaving the company, just to start the process over again. One reason for this is because of the lack of consistence in how the managers in the different locations recruit their employees. The recruiting policies appear to be designed by the store managers with no solid structure. There must be a policy designed to recruit those individuals that will best fit the position as well as ensuring that the investment in training and maintaining pays off. Tanglewood use several different methods to recruit prospective employees. These methods are effective, but only if used properly to gain the wanted effect; which is ensuring the best candidates for the positions. The most used method used by Tanglewood is media...
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...How does a company's website attract potential employees? Introduction Companies have been moving to online recruiting as opposed to traditional methods. Internet recruiting is growing at a phenomenal rate and it is said that more than 80% of Fortune's Global 500 companies recruit on the internet. This is not only cheap but a lot of time is saved as well, when compared to traditional methods. Earlier this method was mostly used to reach potential employees of IT and engineering fields but now a wider range of jobs are in the picture, as most people have access to the internet. Majority of job seekers, young and old are active in using the web to look out for job opportunities, apply online and do checks on prospective employers. For companies finding a qualified candidate is an expensive process. The purpose of this paper is to show how companies can develop and utilize a successful website that attracts potential employees. Problem Statement The reality is that online recruiting will only save companies money if they are utilizing it effectively. Websites must also have the right content and share enough information about the company to attract the job seeker to apply. The problem statement addressed in this paper asks "How can a website be developed to attract potential candidates to apply for employment?" Many businesses do have very efficient websites for attracting and allowing job seekers to find and apply for jobs online. Most of these businesses are large...
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...Case 3.1: Changing Recruitment At Mercado Supermarkets Now day’s most of the organization wants to have a better place in market and keen to attract a major volume of available customers. To achieve that goal with success organizations have to put best strategies in practice for the workplace and as well as have the finest team of employees. In past, some of the organisations were using traditional method of recruiting, like word of mouth recruitment method; within the company advertisement or newspapers. In present time it is very hard for the organization to find and attract all the different kind of job applicant for the various roles within the organization. To resolve this issue organization use different methods of strategies, often implemented by Human Resources Management. The purpose of this essay to outline the range of technologies used by firm to attract staff and analyse which particular methods would be most appropriate to attract different type of applicant to Mercado Supermarkets (include different types of position required within Mercado). The use of internet brought the phenomenal change in individual’s life style. It affected most of the organization in different ways. And at the same time it has force Human Resources Management Strategies to change its policies and procedure to deal with numerous issues of business. Now most of the businesses using different types of technologies to capture as much market as possible; depends on the size of the business as...
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...Tanglewood Case – Assignment #3 Brenda Baker HR594 11-20-10 The way thatTanglewood’s recruiting methods are very different in each of their regions. By assessing these methods from the various and different ways that each of the regions hire and train we have a good opportunity of improving the operations of this company. There is opportunities come from creating target demographics and by looking into the methodology of their recruitment styles. We need to create and adhere to one method for all companies to go by. Tanglewood experiences a constant rate of turnover at the present time. 1. Generate a recruiting guide for the store associate job. Position: Store Associate Reports to: General Manager Qualifications: open training available Relevant labor market: Western Washington Timeline: Continuous recruiting Activities to undertake to source well-qualified candidates: Regional newspaper advertisement Post job opening on company Web site Request employee referrals Contact regional health and life insurance associations Call HR departments of regional health and life insurance companies to see if any are outplacing any store associates Contact if necessary, executive recruiter to further source candidates Staff members involved: HR Recruiting Manager Budget: 2000-6000 2. Describe the relative advantages of open versus targeted recruiting for Tanglewood. Advantages of open versus targeted recruiting for Tanglewood, are those who have significant KSAOs...
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...HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Answer CASE STUDY : 1 A policy is a plan of action. It is a statement of intention committing the management to a general course of action. When the management drafts a policy statement to cover some features of its personnel programmes, the statement may often contain an expression of philosophy and principle as well. Although it is perfectly legitimate for an organization to include its philosophy, principles and policy in one policy expression. Q1) Why organizations adopt personnel policies explain the benefits? Recruitment and Selection • Policies pertaining to the recruitment and selection process are the foundation of building any workforce. You must have a plan for creating applications, how to prequalify applicants, how applicants move up to become a candidate and other employment procedures. This set of policies also benefits current employees who refer applicants to your business. Training and Professional Development • Provisions for employee training and development are included in human resource policy documents because it informs employees of the kind of professional development available to them. In addition, policies related to training and development assistance in the formulation of employee development plans or performance improvement plans. Training and development policies serve as an outline of educational benefits available to current employees. Handling Employee Concerns • Many companies have written procedures...
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...The Recruiting Industry: Internet Staffing vs. Traditional Staffing Prepared By: Anthony Moy (amoy29@gmail.com) Jacquelyn Pope (easyon32@yahoo.com) Karishma Sajnani (ksajnani1@gmail.com) Koura Doumbia (kouradoumbia@yahoo.com) Roushan Chowdhury (roushanchowdhury@gmail.com) Twenika Huddleston (Twenika@yahoo.com) Prepared For: Professor Battino HRM594 STRATEGIC STAFFING KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT November 10, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction 2-3 Approach 4 Focus 5 Recruiting Industry History 2 Strategic Staffing 2 Internet Staffing 2 Internet Staffing Methods 2 Traditional Staffing/Methods 2 Literature Review 2 Results/Recommendations 2 Conclusion 2 References 2 Introduction In today’s society, you will find that many organizations strive to discover the most efficient, effective way to successfully recruit the ideal candidate that’s a perfect fit within the workplace environment. This can be a daunting task within the Human Resources (HR) department should the appropriate factors not be well aligned with an organizations purpose. This research paper will explore the elements of internet staffing and traditional staffing. Some will argue that tradition staffing is the best method because it’s been proven to achieve great results within the business industry for many years. While others will argue that internet staffing can achieve the same results. However, through the use of technology this method...
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...2/22/2016 Collection – 55001.201602 Collection Users can Collect posts into a printable, sortable format. Collections are a good way to organize posts for quick reading. A Collection must be created to tag posts. More Help Thread: CUTCO Discussion Anna Knowles Posted Date: Post: Status: RE: CUTCO Discussion Anna Knowles Author: Morgan Whitaker February 22, 2016 8:10 PM Published How do you think utilizing other sales methods will impact the direct sales? Do you think there is a large chance of cannibalization? If so, how can CUTCO avoid that? Pampered Chef offered its products for sale at Target in the past, but since the independent sales people build their own businesses and their incomes from sales of the same products, most of them were extremely upset with Pampered Chef, because they were essentially taking money right out of their sales' people's pockets. Pampered Chef ended up pulling its products and reverting to direct sales. Do you think the risk of upsetting and/or cannibalizing the direct sales force is worth the increase in revenues that would be realized by selling through other channels? What are some of your ideas for an approach that would allow CUTCO to capture that untapped revenue without negatively impacting its direct sales? (Post is Unread) Thread: Post: Author: CUTCO analysis CUTCO analysis Posted Date: Status: February 22, 2016 8:05 PM Published Ivan Martinez 1. I personally cannot recall buying a product though a direct selling method...
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...hard find elsewhere. Placing employees into management positions based on their level of loyalty to the company does not guarantee that the person chosen is the best candidate. Individual employee characteristics must be aligned with organizational goals and objectives. The organization needs to look at innovative methods to restructure itself, in particular its HR. Job fairs are a great way to reach a large audience face to face. Additionally, the competitive strategy of the company should be modified to deal with its competitors head on. Identification of the Problem Tanglewood is a chain of retail stores that feature items such as appliances, clothing, electronics and home décor. Tanglewood’s distinction is an outdoor theme and it targets customers that are within the moderate price niche. Considering the day and age our society is in Tanglewood has begun to realize that the strategies that may have worked for them in the past may not necessarily sustain them to the future. Identification of the strategic missteps is most important in being able to...
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